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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaVANCE, Zebulon Baird
(1830—1894)
Senate Years of Service:
1879-1894
Party:
Democrat
VANCE, Zebulon Baird, (nephew of Robert Brank Vance [1793-1827] and brother of Robert Brank Vance [1828-1899]), a Representative and a Senator from North Carolina; born on Reems Creek, near Asheville, Buncombe County, N.C., May 13, 1830; attended the common schools of Buncombe County, and Washington (Tenn.) College; studied law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in Asheville, N.C.; elected prosecuting attorney of Buncombe County in 1852; member, State house of commons 1854; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas L. Clingman; reelected to the Thirty-sixth Congress and served from December 7, 1858, to March 3, 1861; during the Civil War entered the Confederate Army as a captain and was promoted to the rank of colonel; elected Governor of North Carolina in 1862, and reelected in 1864; removed from office in 1865 when he was arrested and imprisoned in Washington, D.C. for Confederate activities; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in November 1870, but did not present his credentials; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1872; Governor of North Carolina 1876-1878; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1879; reelected in 1884 and 1890, and served from March 4, 1879, until his death; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Privileges and Elections (Fifty-third Congress); died in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1894; funeral services were held in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, N.C.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; McKinney, Gordon B. Zeb Vance: North Carolina’s Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004; Mobley, Joe A. ”War Governor of the South”: North Carolina’s Zeb Vance in the Confederacy
. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
Bromberg, Alan B. “ ‘The Worst Muddle Ever Seen in N.C. Politics’: The Farmers’ Alliance, the Subtreasury, and Zeb Vance.” North Carolina Historical Review
56 (January 1979): 19-40.
Cannon, Elizabeth Roberts, ed. My Beloved Zebulon: The Correspondence of Zebulon Baird Vance and Harriet Newell Espy
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971.
Dowd, Clement. Life of Zebulon B. Vance
. Charlotte, NC: Observer Printing & Publishing House, 1897.
Johnson, Frontis, Gordon McKinney, and Joe A. Mobley, eds. The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance
. 2 vols. to date. Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1963-.
McKinney, Gordon B. “Zebulon Vance and His Reconstruction of the Civil War in North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review
75 (January 1998): 69-85.
___. Zeb Vance: North Carolina’s Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
___, and Richard McMurry, eds. The Papers of Zebulon Vance
. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1987. Microfilm. 39 reels and guide.
Mobley, Joe A. “Zebulon B. Vance: A Confederate Nationalist in the North Carolina Gubernatorial Election of 1864.” North Carolina Historical Review
77 (October 2000): 324-36.
___. ”War Governor of the South”: North Carolina’s Zeb Vance in the Confederacy
. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
Shirley, Franklin Ray. Zebulon Vance, Tarheel Spokesman
. Charlotte, NC: McNally & Loftin, 1963.
Tucker, Glenn. “A Personality Profile: Zeb Vance.” Civil War Times Illustrated
7 (April 1968): 10-19.
___. Zeb Vance: Champion of Personal Freedom
. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1966.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Zebulon Baird Vance
. 53d Cong., 3d. sess., 1894-1895. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1895.
Vance, Zebulon B. “Reconstruction in North Carolina.” In Why the Solid South? or, Reconstruction and Its Results
, by Hilary A. Herbert, et al., pp. 70-84. 1890. Reprint. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.
___. Sketches of North Carolina
. Norfolk: Norfolk Landmark, 1875.
Yates, Richard E. The Confederacy and Zeb Vance
. Tuscaloosa, AL: Confederate Publishing Co., 1958.
___. “Zebulon B. Vance as War Governor of North Carolina, 1862-1865.” Journal of Southern History
3 (February 1937): 43-75.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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