James A. Banks
Republican
| Date | Party | Office | Votes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09-02-1857 | Republican | AD-05 | 0 | Win |
| 09-01-1858 | Republican | AD-05 | 0 | Win |
| 11-06-1860 | Republican | AD-05 | 0 | Win |
| 08-01-1861 | Republican | SD-08 | 0 | Win |
| 09-03-1862 | Union | AD-08 | 0 | Win |
| Website: | www.findagrave.com/memorial/155987162/james-a-banks |
Candidate Biography:
Born: 1824 in Pennsylvania
Killed: August 1, 1867 at Camp Winfield Scott [now Paradise Valley], Nevada
1864: Delegate, Nevada Constitutional Convention
1866: Assemblymember, Nevada State Legislature
1866: Assembly Speaker, Nevada State Legislature
- Banks was the first California legislator to resign from the Assembly to take a seat in the State Senate. He had been elected to the Assembly in 1860 for the 1861 term, and was elected to the Senate in a special election in August 1861. The next person to change houses midterm was Allen G. Thurman in 1947.
- Killed by Indians.
Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: Selected Officers of the Nevada Legislature by the Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau (2010)
Source: Political History of Nevada (Eleventh Edition) by Dean Heller, Nevada Secretary of State