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Augustus L. Chandler

Independent

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-02-1873 Independent AD-23 0 Win
09-03-1879 Republican AD-25 0 Win
11-02-1880 Republican AD-25 0 Win
11-07-1882 Republican SD-25 0 Win
11-02-1886 Republican SD-12 0 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/36076652/lemuel-augustus-chandler
 

Candidate Biography:

Augustus Lemuel Chandler
Born: ~1832 in Vermont
Family: Uncle of Fred B. Noyes
Died (in office): November 5, 1888 in Sutter County, CA

1885: Candidate for Senate President Pro Tem (Lost; 2 to 18)
1887: Candidate for Senate President Pro Tem (Lost; 13 to 26)

Source: "The Legislature." Sacramento Daily Record-Union, 1 January 1883, Page 12.
Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)