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Richard M. Preston

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-07-1875 Democratic AD-03 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Richard Milne Preston
Born: 1842 in Kentucky
Married.
Died: March 22, 1882 in Santa Rosa, CA

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: Directory of the California Legislature. Twenty-First Session, 1875-6 by William Halley (1876)