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VANCE, ZEBULON BAIRD (1830-1894)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 883 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
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
 , 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
  of Commons (1854), and served in the national
House
  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
  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
 -bag "
misrule
  and was chosen
governor
  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
 , North Carolina, on the 14th of April 1894.
See the Life by Clement Dowd (Charlotte, N.C., 1897).


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