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Singleton, Otho R

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 14, 1814, in Jessamine county, Ky.

He was two years in the lower house of the Mississippi legislature; and served six years in the state senate. He was a presidential elector in 1852; and was elected a representative from Mississippi to the thirty-third congress. He was also elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He joined the great rebellion in 1861, and served as a representative in the confederate congress from 1861 to 1865. In 1875 he was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and fortyninth congresses as a democrat.

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