Peter M. Dox

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(September 11, 1813 — April 2, 1891) Dox was a lawyer and public servant. Peter Dox was born in Geneva, New York. He studied law and practiced in New York, and served as a member of the New York State Assembly from 1855 to 1856. He moved to Madison County, Alabama and was a delegate of the State constitutional convention (1865). He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-First and Forty-Second Congresses from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1873. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/D000478]

Member of Alabama Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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