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Harry J. Thornton

Breckinridge Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-06-1860 Breckinridge Democratic SD-20 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Military Service: Confederate Army (Civil War)

1861: Resigned from the State Senate on June 19.

Source: "Californians in the Rebels Ranks", The Los Angeles Star. December 19, 1862. Transcribed by Dee Sardoch.
Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)