JoinCalifornia: Election History for the State of California

Information Home Elected Offices Elections by Decade Longest Service Shortest Service Most & Fewest Votes Uncontested Races Closest Contests Redistricting Recalls
Elections 2025 SD-36 Special 2025 AD-32 Special 2024 General Prior 2020s Elections Elections by Decade
Other Stuff Advanced Search CA Constitution CA in Congress Line of Succession Highest Ranking SCOTUS Cases

[search tips] [advanced search]

Searching tips

  • Enter a candidate's name to find a candidate
  • Enter the name of a political party to find the party and all candidates
  • Enter a date to find an election
  • Enter a year to find all elections within that year

John Boggs

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-06-1871 Democratic SD-25 0 Win
11-02-1886 Democratic SD-08 0 Win
11-08-1898 Democratic SD-08 3826 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/27495563/john-boggs
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: July 2, 1827 in Washington Co., Missouri
Married: Louise
Child: Frank S.
Died (in office): January 30, 1899 in San Mateo Co., CA

1864: Councilmember [now the Senate], Arizona Territorial Legislature
1876-1880: Director, Napa State Hospital
1880-1899: Director, State Board of Agriculture
1883-1887: Member, Board of Prison Directors
1885: State Penology Commissioner
1885-1887: State Prison Director
1893-1894: Member, Regents of the University of California

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: History of Arizona, Vol III (1916) by Thomas Edwin Farish. http://southwest.library.arizona.edu/hav3/
Source: Legislative Guide... of all the State Officers and Members of the Legislature... by Kean & Dudley (H.S. Crocker and Co., 1871)