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.
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