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1879 United States House of Representatives elections in California

1879 House elections in California

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ7890233 ↗
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The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1879 were elections for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred on September 3, 1879. California's delegation remained unchanged, at three Republicans and one Democrat.

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“1879 United States House of Representatives elections in California” enters the record as 1879 House elections in California. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what United, States and House can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1879 United States House of Representatives elections in California” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.