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W. S. Adams

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-04-1877 Democratic AD-04 0 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/116739557/william-samuel-adams
 

Candidate Biography:

William Samuel Adams
Born: 1815 in Maryland
Died: January 7, 1887 in Bakersfield, CA

Previous: Justice of the Peace [in Wisconsin] (for 8 years)

  • Adams was the oldest member of the Assembly in 1878 at age 65.

Source: "Pen Portraits" Compiled by R.R. Parkinson, Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton as part of the California Genealogy & History Archives