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Nelson Taylor

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-13-1849 Nonpartisan SD-San Joaquin 1755 Win
Website: bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000096
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: June 8, 1821 in South Norwalk, Connecticut
Military Service: ARMY (Civil War)
Died: January 16, 1894 in South Norwalk, Connecticut

1850: Expelled from the State Senate on February 8th.
1850-1856: President, State Insane Asylum Board of Trustees
1854-1856: San Joaquin County Sheriff
1860: Candidate for Congress [New York] (Lost)
1865-1867: Member, United States House of Representatives [New York]
1866: Candidate for Congress [New York] (Lost)
1860s: City Attorney, City of South Norwalk [Connecticut]

Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present" (U.S. Library of Congress) [http://bioguide.congress.gov/]
Source: Journal of the State Senate of California of 1850 (1850), p. 164
Source: "The Names of the President and Senators of the First Senate of the State of California. Convened at the Capitol of San Jose, December the 15th, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Nine." (1849)