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Byron Waters

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-04-1877 Democratic AD-01 0 Win
06-19-1878 Delegate 0 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/8312126/byron-brewster-waters
 

Candidate Biography:

Byron Brewster Waters, Sr.
Born: June 19, 1849 in Canton, Georgia
Married: Louisa Fannie Brown
Children: Brewster, Clara, Sylvia, Helen W., Emmett J., and Byron B. Jr.
Died: November 29, 1934 in San Bernardino, CA

1878: Majority Leader, California State Assembly
1879: Delegate, Second Constitutional Convention (Sacramento)

 

  • Be Fruitful and Multiply: Waters had six children.

 

Source: "Pen Portraits" Compiled by R.R. Parkinson, Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton as part of the California Genealogy & History Archives