Peter Singleton Wilkes (1827 – January 2, 1900) was a prominent

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politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War. Wilkes was born in

Maury County, Tennessee Maury County ( ) is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the Middle Tennessee region. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 100,974. Its county seat is Columbia, Tennessee, C ...

and later moved to Missouri. He represented that state in the

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from 1864 to 1865. After the war, he moved to California where he was the law partner of

David S. Terry David Smith Terry (March 8, 1823 – August 14, 1889) was an American politician and jurist who served as the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court of California; he was an author of the state's 1879 Constitution. Terry won a duel aga ...

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