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Lee Backstrand

Republican

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-04-1952	Republican	AD-71	45595	Win
11-02-1954	Republican	AD-71	48500	Win
11-06-1956	Republican	AD-71	51084	Win
11-04-1958	Republican	AD-71	44284	Win
11-08-1960	Republican	SD-37	66847	Win

Candidate Biography:

Leland M. Backstrand
Born: April 8, 1899 in Los Angeles, CA
Married: Dorothy Iversen (in 1923)
Child: Leland I.
Died: (in office) April 26, 1964

Source: California Blue Book (1954)

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