Thomas Settle (politician, 1865)

Thomas Settle

Thomas Settle (born March 10, 1865 in Wentworth , Rockingham County , North Carolina , †  January 20, 1919 in Asheville , North Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Settle came from a well-known family of politicians. His father of the same name was a judge and local politician in North Carolina; his grandfather Thomas Settle (1789-1857) was also a congressman. He attended the public schools of his home country and then the Georgetown University in Washington, DC After a subsequent law degree in Greensboro and his 1885 admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Wentworth in this profession. Between 1886 and 1894 he was a prosecutor in the ninth judicial district of his state.

Politically, Settle was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Archibald Hunter Arrington Williams on March 4, 1893 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1897 . From 1895 he was chairman of the committee to control spending on public buildings. In 1896 he was defeated by the Democrat William Walton Kitchin .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Thomas Settle practiced as a lawyer in Asheville. In 1909 and 1910 he was a prosecutor at the Customs Court in New York City . In 1912 Settle ran for governor of North Carolina, but finished only third behind the victorious Democrats Locke Craig and Iredell Meares of the Progressive Party with 17.8 percent of the vote . He died in Asheville on January 20, 1919 and was buried in Wilmington .

Web links

• Thomas Settle in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas Settle in the database of Find a Grave (English)