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Know Nothing

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-05-1855 Know Nothing AD-17 0 Win
Website: bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000981
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: March 27, 1828 in Watertown, New York
Died: March 4, 1871 in Portland, Oregon

1858: Justice, Multnomah County Court
1859-1861: Member, United States House of Representatives [Oregon]
1868-1871: Senator, Oregon State Legislature

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present" (U.S. Library of Congress) [http://bioguide.congress.gov/]