George M. Pritchard

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George Moore Pritchard (born January 4, 1886 in Mars Hill , Madison County , North Carolina , †  April 24, 1955 in Asheville , North Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1929 and 1931 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Pritchard was the son of US Senator Jeter Connelly Pritchard (1857-1921). He attended public schools in Marshall and Washington, DC, and the Emerson Institute there . He later studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . After a subsequent law degree at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and his admission to the bar in 1908, he began to work in this profession in Greenville (South Carolina). In 1910 he moved his residence and law firm to Marshall.

Politically, Pritchard was a member of the Republican Party . From 1916 to 1917 he was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives . In 1917 he became a curator of the University of North Carolina. Between 1919 and 1922, Pritchard was a prosecutor in the 19th judicial district of his state. Since 1919 he lived in Asheville. In 1928 he led the Republican presidency in Buncombe County . In the congressional election of the same year he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the tenth constituency of North Carolina, where he succeeded Zebulon Weaver on March 4, 1929 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1930, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1931 .

1930 Weaver ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate. Professionally he worked as a lawyer again in the following years. In 1932 he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where President Herbert Hoover was nominated for re-election. In 1948 George Pritchard applied for the governor of North Carolina without success . He died in Asheville on April 24, 1955.

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SURNAME Pritchard, George M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pritchard, George Moore (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH at Mars Hill , North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1955
Place of death Asheville , North Carolina