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Sanford K. Welch

Democratic

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
09-02-1873	Democratic	AD-18	0	Win
09-04-1877	Democratic	AD-20	0	Win

Website:	www.findagrave.com/memorial/76078743/sanford-k-welch

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1829 in Kentucky
Married: Ann
Child: One daughter
Died: 1892 in California

Previous: District Attorney, Lake County

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