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| Name | Robert B. Vance |
| Address | Buncombe County
, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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April 24, 1828
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| Died | November 28, 1899
(71 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
Dec 06, 2022 06:09am |
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| Info | VANCE, Robert Brank, (nephew of Robert Brank Vance [1793-1827] and brother of Zebulon Baird Vance), a Representative from North Carolina; born on Reems Creek, near Asheville, Buncombe County, N.C., April 24, 1828; attended the common schools; engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits; clerk of the court of pleas and quarter sessions 1848-1856; during the Civil War was elected captain of a company in the Confederate Army; twice elected colonel of the Twenty-ninth North Carolina Regiment; appointed brigadier general in 1863
U.S. Representative (C,D-NC) 1873-1885; chairman, Committee on Patents (Forty-fourth through Forty-sixth and Forty-eighth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1884
United States Assistant Commissioner of Patents from April 11, 1885, to April 4, 1889, when he resigned
Returned to North Carolina and settled in Alexander
NC House of Representatives 1894-1896
Died in Alexander, near Asheville, N.C., November 28, 1899; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, N.C.
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