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William C. Stratton

Democratic

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
09-02-1857	Democratic	AD-17	0	Win
09-01-1858	Democratic	AD-17	0	Win

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1824 in New York

1860: Speaker, California State Assembly
1861-1870: California State Librarian

Source: Anthropographic Chart of the 17th Session of the Legislature... (Sacramento; Russell & Winterburn's, 1867)