Jeter Connelly Pritchard
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Jeter Connelly Pritchard (12 July 1857 - 10 April 1921) was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1895 and 1903. He was the only Republican to represent a southern state in the United States Senate during that time.
Pritchard served as a justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia from 1903 until 1904, when he became judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit until his death in 1921.
He was the father of George M. Pritchard.
He is buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, North Carolina, alongside fellow North Carolina Senators Thomas Lanier Clingman and Zebulon Baird Vance.[1]
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- ^ Riverside Cemetery. nps.gov. National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved on 2008-02-25.
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| Preceded by Thomas Jordan Jarvis |
United States Senator (Class 3) from North Carolina 1895–1903 Served alongside: Matt Whitaker Ransom, Marion Butler, Furnifold McLendel Simmons |
Succeeded by Lee Slater Overman |
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