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Lewis N. Ketcham

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-02-1857 Democratic SD-19 0 Win
09-01-1858 Democratic SD-19 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Lewis Nesbitt Ketcham
Born: 1817 in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania
Died: January 17, 1872 in Yreka, CA

1864-1868: District Attorney, Amador County

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: "Death of a Pioneer," Sacramento Daily Union. 25 January 1872.