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Joseph Powell

Anti-Lecompton Democratic

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
09-07-1859	Anti-Lecompton Democratic	Clerk of the Supreme Court	31179	Loss
11-06-1860	Douglas Democratic	AD-09	0	Win

Candidate Biography:

Died: November 27, 1869 in Folsom, CA

1856: Enrolling Clerk, California State Assembly

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)