Aylett R. Cotton

Aylett Rains Cotton ( born November 29, 1826 in Austintown, Ohio; † October 30, 1912 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician.

Aylett Cotton moved in 1844 with his father to Iowa, where they settled near DeWitt in Clinton County. Cotton attended Allegheny College in Meadville in 1845 (Pennsylvania) and taught from 1845 to 1847 at the Union Academy in Fayette County ( Tennessee). He then returned to Iowa and studied law. In 1848 he was admitted to the legal profession and practiced in Clinton County. In the wake of the Gold Rush in 1849 he went to California to look at the Feather River gold. Cotton returned until 1851 returned to Iowa and settled in Lyons. 1851 to 1853 he was District Judge ( County Judge ) in Clinton County, before 1854 Attorney of the county in the year. Then he held from 1855 to 1857 the office of mayor of the city of Lyon. From 1868 to 1870 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Iowa.

Cotton was elected as a Republican to Congress and represented there on 4 March 1871 to the March 3, 1875 the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the elections of 1874, he did not stand for reelection available. Cotton moved to California in 1883 and worked there in San Francisco as a lawyer. There he died in 1912 and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in San Mateo County.