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J. W. Kavanagh

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-04-1902 Republican AD-20 1894 Loss
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: November 15, 1867 in Red Dog, CA

1883-1889: Deputy Postmaster, City of Vallejo
1889-1893: Clerk, Mare Island Navy Yard
1896-1905: Editor, Vallejo Morning News
1898-1904: Secretary, Vallejo Board of Education
1897: Assistant Engrossing Clerk, California State Senate
1906-1913: Assistant Secretary of the Senate, California State Senate
1915: Minute Clerk & Assistant Secretary of the Senate, California State Senate

Source: California Blue Book (1907), (1909), (1913-15)