Jeter Connelly Pritchard

Jeter Connelly Pritchard

Jeter Connelly Pritchard (* 12. July 1857 in Jonesborough , Tennessee ; †  10. April 1921 in Asheville , North Carolina ) was an American politician of the Republican Party . He represented the state of North Carolina in the United States Senate .

In his native Tennessee, Pritchard learned the trade of printer . In 1873 he moved to Bakersville , North Carolina, where he became the editor and owner of the Roan Mountain Republican . He took his first political office in 1880 as a member of the Electoral College , which James A. Garfield elected US President . In 1884 he was appointed to the North Carolina House of Representatives , to which he served again in 1886 and 1890. During this time he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1889.

In vain was Pritchard's candidacy for lieutenant governor of North Carolina in 1888; three years later he also failed in the election to the US Senate. He suffered the third defeat in the election to the US House of Representatives in 1892 . He was not successful until 1894, when he was elected to succeed the late Senator Zebulon Baird Vance . After re-election in 1897, Pritchard remained in the Senate until March 3, 1903. He was the only Southern Republican in this chamber at the time.

After retiring from the Senate Pritchard was in the same year to judge on the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia selected. In 1904 he moved to the Federal Court of Appeal for the fourth district, where he remained until his death in 1921. In Asheville, where he died, Pritchard Park was named after him.

His son George also embarked on a political career and sat for North Carolina in the US House of Representatives from 1928 to 1930.

Web links

• Jeter Connelly Pritchard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Biography (English).