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Daniel J. Lisle

Whig

Date Party Office Votes Result
03-15-1850 Nonpartisan AD-Sacramento 405 Loss
12-21-1850 Whig AD-12 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1824 in Kentucky
Died: February 8, 1855 in San Francisco, CA

 

  • Lisle operated a ferry north of Sacramento on the American River. By 1855, the Ferry had been replaced by Lisle's Bridge (which was replaced in 1915 by the 16th Street Bridge over the American River).

 

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: San Francisco Cemetery Records, 1848-1863 by Tamalpais Chapter, DAR (1938)
Source: History of Sacramento County, California by William L. Willis (1913)
Source: http://sacramento.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=30&clip_id=2491&meta_id=214272 (accessed 4/1/2019)