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Turner, Smith S

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 21, 1842, in Warren county, Va. He taught mathematics in a female seminary at Winchester, Va., for two years after the war; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1869. He was a member of the Virginia legislature in 1869-1872; was for a number of years prosecuting attorney for Warren county, and is still engaged in the practice of law. He was elected to the fifty-third and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.

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