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Giles Cotton
1814–1883
United States
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Giles Cotton, also known as Silas Cotton, (died 1883 or 1884) was an emancipated slave, farmer, and state legislator in Texas. A Radical Republican, he served in the Texas House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era from 1870 to 1873. He married and had seven children.
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