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William W. Hawks

Whig

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-02-1852	Whig	Clerk of the Supreme Court	32859	Loss
09-06-1854	Whig	SD-05	0	Win
09-05-1855	Know Nothing	SD-05	0	Win

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1826 in North Carolina
Died: March 8, 1859 in San Francisco, CA

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: San Francisco Cemetery Records, 1848-1863 by Tamalpais Chapter, DAR (1938)