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George E. Whitney

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-07-1882 Republican SD-14 0 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/165133521/george-edwin-whitney
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: September 19, 1836 in Phillips, Maine
Married.
Died: April 25, 1893 in Washington, DC

1867-1870: Clerk, US Circuit Court and District Courts for the District of California
1874: His biography mentions that he was the attorney who prepared the "Poland Law" which Congress passed in 1874.
1887-1888: Trustee, Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum

Source: "The Legislature." Sacramento Daily Record-Union, 1 January 1883, Page 12.