ZEBULON See also:BAIRD See also:VANCE (1830-1894)
, See also:American See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born in See also:Buncombe See also:county, See also:North Carolina, on the r3th of May 1830
.
He was educated at See also:Washington See also:College, at See also:Salem, See also:Tennessee, and the university of North Carolina (1851-52)
.
Entering politics as a Whig, he was elected See also:solicitor
of Buncombe county (1852) and a member of the See also:state See also:House of See also:Commons (1854), and served in the See also:national House of Representatives from See also:December 1858 until the 3rd of See also:March 1861
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As See also:captain of a See also:company in the 14th and as See also:colonel of the 26th North Carolina regiments, he took See also:part in the See also:Virginia See also:campaigns of 186r–62
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From 1862 until the See also:close of the See also:war he was See also:governor of the state, and from the loth of May to the 5th of See also:July 1865, when he was released on See also:parole, was held as a prisoner by the See also:United States authorities in Washington
.
Having been elected to the United States See also:Senate in 187o and been refused See also:admission because his disabilities—due to his participation in the war—had not been removed, he took the See also:lead in the fight against " See also:carpet-bag " See also:misrule and was chosen governor in the political revolution of 1876, serving in 1877–79
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He was again elected to the Senate in 1878 and was re-elected in 1884 and 1890, serving from March 1879 until his See also:death
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Senator See also:Vance was a typical See also:Southern Whig
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He disliked 'See also:slavery and he hated See also:secession
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In See also:common with other Whigs, he was forced to remain in the Democratic party after the war by the fear of See also:negro domination
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He died at See also:Asheville, North Carolina, on the 14th of See also:April 1894
.
See the See also:Life by See also:Clement Dowd (See also:Charlotte, N.C., 1897)
.
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