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W. J. Maclay

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-03-1879 Republican AD-20 0 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/91843533/william-james-maclay
 

Candidate Biography:

Reverend William James Maclay
Born: 1829 in Concord, Pennsylvania
Married: Mary Ann Wyman (d. 1870), Alvira Hardy (m. 1872)
Children: Erwin R., Kate, William S., Frederick Napa, and Otis Hardy
Family: Brother of Charles Maclay
Died: November 13, 1879 in Napa, CA

  • Although elected in 1879, Maclay died before assuming office as an Assemblymember.

Source: California Blue Book (2000) [Footnote 127 on page 325]
Source: Fifty years of Methodism by Charles Volney Anthony (San Francisco; 1901)