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Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.

1895–1919

United States

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Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. (September 2, 1895 – February 3, 1919) was an American poet, playwright, and journalist from Louisville, Kentucky. He is most remembered for his posthumous one-act play On the Fields of France and his sole published poetry collection The Band of Gideon and Other Lyrics (1918).

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