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Bernard C. Whitman

Whig

Date Party Office Votes Result
10-08-1853 Whig AD-20 0 Win
11-04-1856 Independent CD-AL 34681 Loss
Website: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_C._Whitman
 

Candidate Biography:

Bernard Crosby Whitman
Born: October 25, 1827 in Waltham, Massachusetts
Married: Mary E. (died in Paris in 1932)
Family: Nephew of Ezekiel Whitman (Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court)
Died: August 5, 1885 in San Francisco, CA

1868-1873: Associate Justice, Nevada Supreme Court
1873-1874: Chief Justice, Nevada Supreme Court

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