William D. Fair
Whig
| Date | Party | Office | Votes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03-02-1850 | Nonpartisan | SD-San Joaquin | 1194 | Win |
| 09-03-1851 | Whig | Attorney General | 21044 | Loss |
Candidate Biography:
Born: 1823 in Virginia
Married: Laura Grayson (in 1858)
Child: A daughter
Died: December 27, 1861 in San Francisco, CA
1849: President of the Mississippi Rangers
- Suicide (allegedly) - In Volume 36 of his history of the Pacific Coast, Hubert Howe Bancroft described Fair's death as "said to have committed suicide."
- Shortly after Fair committed suicide, his widow Laura began an affair with Alexander Crittenden. She murdered Crittenden in front of his family in 1870.
Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: San Francisco Cemetery Records, 1848-1863 by Tamalpais Chapter, DAR (1938)