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John F. Swift

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-03-1862 Union AD-08 0 Win
09-02-1873 Independent AD-08 0 Win
09-07-1875 Independent CD-01 6103 Lose
09-04-1877 Republican AD-13 0 Win
11-02-1886 Republican Governor 84316 Lose
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1829 in Missouri

1870s: Member, U.C. Board of Regents
1888: U.S. Presidential Elector
189?-1892: U.S. Minister to Japan

Source: "Pen Portraits" Compiled by R.R. Parkinson, Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton as part of the California Genealogy & History Archives

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