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Edward Tompkins

Independent

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-03-1868 Independent SD-09 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1815 in New York
Died: November 14, 1872 in Oakland, CA

1868-1872: Honorary Regent, University of California

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: Legislative Guide... of all the State Officers and Members of the Legislature... by Kean & Dudley (H.S. Crocker and Co.; 1871)