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Robert M. Briggs

Know Nothing

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-02-1857 Know Nothing AD-19 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Robert Marshall Briggs
Born: February 15, 1816 in Morganfield, Kentucky
Married. (m. 1849)
Children: Flora, Charles G., Fred S.
Died: December 8, 1886 in Bridgeport, CA

1879-1886: Justice, Mono County Superior Court

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