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Thorwald K. Nelson

Workingmen

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
09-03-1879	Workingmen	SD-11	0	Win
11-02-1880	Workingmen	SD-11	0	Win
11-07-1882	Democratic	SD-11	0	Win

Candidate Biography:

Thorwald Klaudius Nelson
Thorvald Klaudius Nelson
Born: Norway
Died: March 5, 1888 in Santa Barbara, CA

1879: Member, Second Constitutional Convention (Sacramento)

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