Samuel Purdy

Samuel Purdy

Samuel Purdy was Lieutenant Governor of California, 1852-1856. He ran for office as a Democrat. [Hittell, Theodore Henry (1898). "History of California", Vol. IV, pp. 81-82, 135. San Francisco: N.J. Stone & Company.] He also became the first mayor of Stockton, California, in 1851. [Hutchings, J. M. (1875). "Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California", p. 34. New York and San Francisco: A. Roman and Company.]

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