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Joseph M. Cavis

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-04-1861 Union SD-12 2036 Loss
09-03-1862 Union SD-12 0 Win
09-07-1875 Republican Lieutenant Governor 30932 Loss
 

Candidate Biography:

Joseph Mills Cavis
Born: July 1, 1825 in NH
Died: January 4, 1892 in Stockton, CA

1859-1862: Justice of the Peace, Columbia [Tuolumne County]
1864-1870: Judge, 5th Judicial District
1876-188s: Postmaster, City of Stockton

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: A History of Tuolumne County California published by B. F. Alley (1882; Reprinted in 1973)