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Alfred J. Ellis

Whig

Date Party Office Votes Result
06-03-1849 Nonpartisan Delegate 0 Win
09-03-1851 Whig AD-06 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1816 in New York
Died: July 27, 1883 in San Francisco, CA

1849: Member, Legislative Assembly of San Francisco
1849: Delegate, First California Constitutional Convention (representing San Francisco District)

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: Governmental Roster, 1889. State and County Governments of California by W. C. Hendricks
Source: History of California, Volume 23 by Hubert Howe Bancroft (San Francisco; History Co., 1888)