Background
Ortho Robards Singleton was born on October 14, 1814, in Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky, United States. Little is known about his early life.
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Ortho Singleton
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Bardstown, Kentucky, United States
Otho Robards Singleton graduated from St. Joseph's College.
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Lexington, KY 40506, United States
Otho Robards Singleton graduated from the law department of the University of Lexington (present-day University of Kentucky).
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Bardstown, Kentucky, United States
Otho Robards Singleton graduated from St. Joseph's College.
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Lexington, KY 40506, United States
Otho Robards Singleton graduated from the law department of the University of Lexington (present-day University of Kentucky).
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Public Printing: Speech Of Otho R. Singleton, Of Mississippi, In The House Of Representatives, May 16, 1876
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1876
Ortho Robards Singleton
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Singleton attended the common schools. He graduated from St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Kentucky, and from the law department of the University of Lexington (present-day University of Kentucky).
Career
Sometime in the early 1840s, Otho Robards Singleton moved to Mississippi, where he practiced law and owned a small plantation in Canton, Madison County. He served in the Mississippi House in 1846-1847 and in the Senate from 1848 to 1854.
He was a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855 but lost a bid for reelection in 1854. He was returned to the House from 1857 until his withdrawal in 1861.
During his first term, Otho Singleton was a member of the Joint, Inauguration, and Indian Affairs Committees, as well as the special committee on claims of families of deceased soldiers. In his second term, he was a member of the Conference and Indian Affairs Committees and the special committee on the Confederate States Treasury. He was also an aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee in 1864.
Before the war ended, Singleton had become disillusioned with the Confederate cause. After the war, he returned to his law practice in Mississippi. Once the federal restrictions on his public service were lifted, he again served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1875 to 1887.
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Politics
A secessionist, Otho Robards Singleton served in both sessions of the permanent Confederate House of Representatives, where he supported the Davis administration.
Views
Otho Robards Singleton consistently voted to limit debate and to adjourn early, and he once argued that if a state withheld munitions from the central government, they should be taken by force.
Connections
Otho Robards Singleton was married twice. In 1843 he married Martha A. Field, they had two children, Richard H. Singleton and Martha E. Singleton.
In 1859 he married Eliza Yandell.
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Resting place
Canton City Cemetery Canton, Madison County, Mississippi, United States -
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Democratic party
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1853 - 1855
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1857 - 1861
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1875 - 1883
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1883 - 1887