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Dyer, David Patterson

soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1838, in Henry county, Va. He moved to Missouri, and was elected a district prosecuting attorney in 1860; and was elected to the state legislature in 1862 and 1865. He had command of the forty-ninth Missouri volunteers during a part of the rebellion. He was elected secretary of the state senate in 1866; was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1868; and was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-first congress.