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Snyder, Oliver P

state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1833, in Missouri. He was a member of the general assembly of Arkansas in 1864 and 1865; and was elected a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1867. He was a presidential elector in 1868; was elected a member of the state senate for four years; and was appointed one of the three commissioners to revise and rearrange the statutes of Arkansas. He was elected a representative from Arkansas to the forty-second and forty-third congresses; and in 1875 was appointed postmaster of Pine Bluff, Ark.

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