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Gabriel B. Post

Nonpartisan

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-13-1849	Nonpartisan	SD-San Francisco	1606	Win

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1820 in New Jersey
Died: February 26, 1861 in San Francisco, CA

Previous: Vice President, Association for the Protection of Property
1850: Resigned from the State Senate in January 21.

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: "The Names of the President and Senators of the First Senate of the State of California. Convened at the Capitol of San Jose, December the 15th, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Nine." (1849)