Henry Hancock

Candidate Biography:

Born: April 11, 1822 in Bath, New Hampshire
Military Service: ARMY (Mexican War)
Died: January 9, 1883 in Santa Monica, CA

• When Hancock died in 1883, he was poor and his family had been reduced to selling beans and watermelons to passersby. [Source: FindAGrave.com]

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