Milton J. Durham

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(May 16, 1824 — February 12, 1911) Durham was a teacher, lawyer, judge, and politician. Milton Jameson Durham was born in Mercer County, Kentucky in 1824. He graduated from Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University in Indiana in 1844. After graduation, Durham taught school for several years before studying law at the Louisville Law School and being admitted to the bar in 1850. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1879. After serving in Congress, Durham was appointed First Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States and served in that capacity from 1885 until 1889, when the office was discontinued. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/D000572]

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

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