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Joseph Smothers

1830–

United States

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Joseph Smothers was a Baptist minister and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Claiborne County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1872 to 1875. He was born in Kentucky. He lived in Port Gibson, Mississippi.

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