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Miles, William Porcher

educator, soldier, congressman, was born July 4, 1828, in Charleston, S. C. He was for several years assistant professor of mathof mathematics in Charleston college. He was . He was mayor of Charleston in 1856 and 1857. He was elected a representative from South Carolina to the thirty-fifth congress , and re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress; was elected a member of the South Carolina seceding convention in 1860; and resigned his seat in congress. He served as a colonel in the confederate army and as a member of the confederate congress.