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Daniel W. Gelwicks

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-04-1867 Democratic State Printer 48378 Win
09-07-1875 Democratic AD-14 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Daniel William Gelwicks
Born: 1822 in Hagerstown, Maryland
Married.
Died: November 24, 1884 in Sacramento, CA

1860s?: Publisher, Placerville Mountain Democrat
1883-1884: State Prison Director

Source: Directory of the California Legislature. Twenty-First Session, 1875-6 by William Halley (1876)
Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: Anthropographic Chart of the 17th Session of the Legislature... (Sacramento; Russell & Winterburn's, 1867)