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Owen P. Sutton

Union

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
12-22-1849	Nonpartisan	Surveyor General	4	Loss
09-03-1862	Union	AD-08	0	Win

Candidate Biography:

Owen Paul Sutton
Born: August 8, 1821 in Naples, NY
Died: September 1, 1881 in San Francisco, CA

1862-1863: President, Society of California Pioneers

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