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James Johnson

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-05-1865 Democratic SD-15 0 Win
09-04-1867 Democratic SD-15 0 Win
Website: ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LT53-2NL/james-johnson-1811-1874
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1811 in Kentucky
Died: 1888 in Oakland, CA

  • NOTABLE NO VOTE (University of California): This was one of sixteen state legislators (four in the Senate and 12 in the Assembly) who voted against the bill AB 583 (1868) which created the University of California.

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)