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Justus S. Wardell

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-08-1898 Democratic AD-39 1508 Win
11-02-1926 Democratic Governor 282451 Loss
Website: freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/sfbward2.htm
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: June 30, 1872 in San Francisco, CA
Married: Miss Clara Louise Kellogg (in 1895)
Children:  Benjamin Augustus II and Virginia Pauline
Died: September 24, 1945 in San Francisco, CA

1904: Delegate, Democratic National Conventions
1908: Delegate, Democratic National Conventions
1913-1917: Surveyor of Customs, Port of San Francisco
1917-1920: Collector of Internal Revenue, First California District
1924: Delegate, Democratic National Conventions
1928: Delegate, Democratic National Conventions
1928: Candidate for U.S. Presidential Elector (Lost)
1932: Chair, California Democratic Party
1932: Primary Candidate for US Senate (Lost)