William Waldo (California politician)
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William Waldo (California politician)
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William Waldo was a candidate for Governor of California in 1853. He was born in Harrison County, Virginia but spent most of his life in Missouri, where he was a merchant and steamboat captain. In 1849 he joined the gold rush to California at the head of a wagon train. In California the next year, reports arrived of impending starvation among numerous immigrants on the Nevada side of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Waldo put great effort into recruiting and delivering supplies for them, and became
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American politician
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