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| Name | Jeter C. Pritchard |
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Marshall, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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July 12, 1857
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| Died | April 10, 1921
(63 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
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| Info | PRITCHARD, Jeter Connelly, (father of George Moore Pritchard), a Senator from North Carolina; born in Jonesboro, Washington County, Tenn., July 12, 1857; apprenticed to the printer's trade; moved to Bakersville, Mitchell County, N.C., in 1873; became joint editor and owner of the Roan Mountain Republican; attended the Martins Creek Academy in Tennessee; presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1880; elected to the State house of representatives in 1884, 1886, and 1890; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in Marshall, N.C.; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor in 1888; unsuccessful Republican candidate for United States Senator in 1891; president of the North Carolina Protective Tariff League in 1891; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress
US Senate (R-NC) 1/23/1895-1903; elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Zebulon B. Vance. Chairman, Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, Committee on Patents
Justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia 1903-1904; judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Judicial Circuit from 1904 until his death in Asheville, N.C., on April 10, 1921; interment in Riverside Cemetery.
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