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| Name | Thomas Settle III |
| Address | Rockingham County
Wentworth, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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March 10, 1865
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| Died | January 20, 1919
(53 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
Dec 15, 2023 06:54am |
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| Info | SETTLE, Thomas (grandson of Thomas Settle [1789-1857] ; son of Thomas Settle [1831-1888]; first cousin twice removed of John Kerr and Bartlett Yancey). Born near Wentworth, Rockingham County, N.C., March 10, 1865. Attended the public schools and Georgetown College, District of Columbia; studied law in Greensboro, N.C.; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice at Wentworth, N.C.; solicitor of the ninth judicial district 1886-1894.
U.S. Representative (R-NC) 1893-1897; chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Fifty-fourth Congress). Settle supported a sound money policy and voted against attempts to inflate the dollar. NC Populists supported his opponents in 1896 and 1898.
Resumed the practice of his profession in Asheville, N.C.; appointed by the Department of Justice as special attorney to the United States Court of Customs in New York City in 1909, and served in that capacity until 1910.
Candidate for Governor (R-NC) 1912.
Delegate to the 1916 Republican National Convention.
Died in Asheville, N.C., January 20, 1919; interment in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.
[Link] ; Reidsville Review, 10/22/1912 |
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