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Silas W. Sanderson

Union

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-03-1862 Union AD-15 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Silas Woodruff Sanderson
Born: April 16, 1824 in Sandgate, Vermont
Married: Margaret Beaty Ormsby (m. 1858)
Children: Sibyl, Jennie, Marion, and Edith
Died: June 24, 1886 in San Francisco, CA

1864-1866: Chief Justice, California Supreme Court
1866-1870: Justice, California Supreme Court

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: Anthropographic Chart of the 17th Session of the Legislature... (Sacramento; Russell & Winterburn's, 1867)
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