Carlton B. Curtis
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Early life
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First election to Congress
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Civil War service
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Post war activities
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Curtis was again elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874. He resumed the practice of law, and died in Erie in 1883.
See also
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