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Served in the United States Navy, and received substantial pension funds from the United States government. Served as president of the American Ship Building Company. R.C Witmore was also implicated in an election fraud scheme with R.M Blatchford, Simeon Draper, James Bowen, and Moses H. Grinnell. 

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