George Congdon Gorham was a Republican

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 California

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 politician and newspaper editor. Gorham ran in 1867 under the Republican ticket in the Californian gubernatorial

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 race. He lost, however, to Democratic candidate Henry Huntly Haight by a margin of 7,458 votes. Gorham also worked on the Republican National Committee for California (a subsidiary body of the national body, the Republican National Committee

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). He, along with Stephen Johnson Field

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 wrote a book on the early history of California. From June 6, 1868 - March 24, 1879 he was Secretary of the United States Senate

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. He died in 1909 in Washington D.C..

External links

• Senate history - Gorham as Secretary of the Senate