In 1854 in San Francisco, Washburn and Benjamin Franklin Washington fought a duel with rifles at forty paces.
Washburn was severely wounded by the second shot fired at him.
A member of the Republican Party, Washburn was later Presidential Elector for California, 1860; U.S.
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