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Benjamin H. Miles

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-04-1856 Democratic AD-03 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Killed: April 27, 1858 in Tucson, Arizona Territory

  • DUEL: Miles was killed in a duel with a man named Curry. The terms were rifles at twenty paces. 

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)