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Samuel Soule

New Constitution

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-02-1857 Republican SD-05 0 Win
09-04-1861 Republican SD-08 0 Win
09-03-1879 New Constitution RC-02 3519 Loss
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1808 in Waterville, Maine
Died: November 18, 1889 in San Francisco, CA

1872-1875: Member, State Board of Harbor Commissioners

  • Soule was the oldest Senator in the 1858 Legislature at 50 years old.

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: "SAMUEL SOULE DEAD." Daily Alta California, Volume 81, Number 144, 21 November 1889