Aylett R. Cotton

Aylett R. Cotton

Aylett Rains Cotton (born November 29, 1826 in Austintown , Ohio , † October 30, 1912 in San Francisco , California ) was an American politician .

Aylett Cotton moved to Iowa with his father in 1844 , where they settled near DeWitt in Clinton County . Cotton attended the 1845 Allegheny College in Meadville ( Pennsylvania ) and taught from 1845 to 1847 at the Union Academy in Fayette County ( Tennessee ). He then returned to Iowa and studied law. He was inducted into the bar in 1848 and practiced in Clinton County. In the wake of the gold rush , he went to California in 1849 to look for gold on the Feather River . Cotton did not return to Iowa until 1851 and settled in Lyons . From 1851 to 1853 he was a county judge in Clinton County before becoming the county attorney in 1854. He then held the post of mayor of Lyons from 1855 to 1857. From 1868 to 1870 he was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives , where he temporarily served as a speaker .

Cotton was elected as a Republican in Congress and represented there from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1875 the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives . In the elections in 1874 he was not available for a new candidacy. Cotton moved to California in 1883 and practiced as a lawyer in San Francisco. There he died in 1912 and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in San Mateo County .

Web links

• Aylett R. Cotton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)