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Peter Johnston Otey (December 22, 1840 – May 4, 1902) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia. Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, Otey attended private schools in Lynchburg, and graduated from the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington in 1859. Otey joined the Confederate States Army in 1861 and served as a major throughout the Civil War. He started out his professional life as a cashier for the Lynchburg National Bank and was later named the general manager of the Rivermont Land Co.〔http://www.retroweb.com/lynchburg/articles/1891_01_08_DV_Lynchburg&Durham.html〕 Starting in 1887〔(Railroad Guide: Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech )〕 he organized and built the Lynchburg & Durham Railroad and became president of the company which in 1892 merged with the Norfolk and Western railway. He retired from the railroad on June 21, 1891. 〔http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CE3DA173AE533A25752C2A9609C94609ED7CF 〕 Otey was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, until his death. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1896. He died in Lynchburg, Virginia, May 4, 1902 and was interred in the Presbyterian Cemetery. ==Early life== Peter J. Otey was born on December 22, 1840 in Lynchburg, Virginia to Lucy (née Norvell) and John Mathews Otey. He was a nephew of Bishop James Hervey Otey. He attended the Virginia Military Institute, graduating in 1859 with a degree in civil engineering. In the year of his graduation he and his fellow cadets were sent to combat John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.〔Memorial addresses on the life and character of Peter J. Otey (late a representative from Virginia), delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate, Fifty-seventh Congress, first session (1902). Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/memoriale00unit April 23, 2014. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter J. Otey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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