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Gifford, Oscar Sherman

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 20, 1842, in Watertown, N. Y. He served in the union army private in the Elgin (Illinois) battery from 1863 to 1865; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1870, and engaged in the practice of law at Canton, Dakota.

He was elected district attorney for Lincoln county in 1874; and in 1882 and 1883 was mayor of the city of Canton. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Dakota which convened at Sioux Falls in 1883; and was elected delegate from Dakota to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fiftyfirst congresses as a republican.