VANCE, ZEBULON BAIRD (1830-1894)

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VANCE, ZEBULON BAIRD (1830-1894) , American political leader, was born in

Buncombe

county, North Carolina, on the r3th of May 1830. He was educated at Washington College, at Salem,

Tennessee

TENNESSEE

, and the university of North Carolina (1851-52). Entering politics as a Whig, he was elected solicitor
of

Buncombe

county (1852) and a member of the state

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Commons (1854), and served in the national

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Representatives from December 1858 until the 3rd of

March

1861. As captain of a company in the 14th and as colonel of the 26th North Carolina regiments, he took part in the Virginia campaigns of 186r62. From 1862 until the close of the war he was

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of the state, and from the loth of May to the 5th of July 1865, when he was released on parole, was held as a prisoner by the United States authorities in Washington. Having been elected to the United States Senate in 187o and been refused admission because his disabilitiesdue to his participation in the warhad not been removed, he took the lead in the fight against "

carpet

CARPET

-bag "

misrule

MISRULE, LORD OF

and was chosen

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

in the political revolution of 1876, serving in 187779. He was again elected to the Senate in 1878 and was re-elected in 1884 and 1890, serving from

March

1879 until his death. Senator Vance was a typical Southern Whig. He disliked 'slavery and he hated secession. In common with other Whigs, he was forced to remain in the Democratic party after the war by the fear of negro domination. He died at

Asheville

ASHEVILLE

, North Carolina, on the 14th of April 1894.
See the Life by Clement Dowd (Charlotte, N.C., 1897).

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