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Peters, Samuel Ritter

soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 16, 1842, in Pickaway county, Ohio. He moved to Kansas in 1873, and engaged in the practice of law at Marion Centre. He was elected state senator in 1874; in 1875 was appointed judge of the ninth judicial district; and in the succeeding November was elected to the same position, and was re-elected in 1879.

He moved to Newton in 1876; was elected a representative from Kansas to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.