John Bratton
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John Bratton (March 7, 1831 – January 12, 1898) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
Born in Winnsboro, South Carolina, Bratton attended the Academy of Mount Zion Institute in Winnsboro. He was graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1850 and from South Carolina Medical College at Charleston in 1853. He engaged in the practice of medicine in Winnsboro from 1853 to 1861. He also engaged as a planter. He enlisted in the Confederate States Army as a private and served throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of brigadier general.
He served as member of the State constitutional convention in 1865. He served in the State senate in 1866. He served as chairman of the South Carolina delegation in the Democratic National Convention in 1876. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880.Bratton was elected comptroller general of South Carolina by the legislature, to fill a vacancy, in 1881. Bratton was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John H. Evins and served from December 8, 1884, to March 3, 1885. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1884.
He retired from active politics and again engaged in planting at "Farmington," near Winnsboro. He died in Winnsboro, South Carolina, January 12, 1898. He was interred in the Episcopal Cemetery.
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- John Bratton at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2008-02-13
