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William H. Brown

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-04-1877 Republican SD-23 0 Win
09-03-1879 Republican SD-22 0 Win
11-02-1880 Republican SD-23 0 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/59557288/william-henry-brown
 

Candidate Biography:

William Henry Brown
Born: 1831-1835 in Ohio
Married.
Died: October 29, 1910 in San Francisco, CA

Previous: Sheriff, El Dorado County (two terms)
Previous: County Treasurer, El Dorado County (two terms)
1883-1886: United States Surveyor General
1889-1895: Member, California State Harbor Commission

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: "Pen Portraits" Compiled by R.R. Parkinson, Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton as part of the California Genealogy & History Archives