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John Lambert

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-07-1859 Democratic AD-14 0 Win
11-03-1868 Democratic AD-24 0 Win
09-04-1877 Democratic SD-19 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1829 in Richmond, Virginia
Died: March 20, 1890 in Woodland, CA

  • LEGISLATION: Author of AB 750 (1870), which created the State Board of Equalization.

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