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Marion Biggs

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-04-1867 Democratic AD-16 0 Win
11-03-1868 Democratic AD-24 0 Win
11-02-1886 Democratic CD-02 17667 Win
11-06-1888 Democratic CD-02 19064 Win
Website: bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000458
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: May 2, 1823 near Curryville, Missouri
Children: Included Marion Biggs Jr.
Died: August 2, 1910 in Gridley, CA

1853-1857: Sheriff, Monroe County [Missouri]
1877: Member, Regents of the University of California
1878: Delegate, Second Constitutional Convention (Sacramento)

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present" (U.S. Library of Congress) [http://bioguide.congress.gov/]
Source: Anthropographic Chart of the 17th Session of the Legislature... (Sacramento; Russell & Winterburn's, 1867)