Vance, Zebulon B.

Vance, Zebulon B.

▪ American politician
in full  Zebulon Baird Vance  
born May 13, 1830, Buncombe county, N.C., U.S.
died April 14, 1894, Washington, D.C.
 North Carolina representative, governor, and senator during the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras.

      Vance studied law at the University of North Carolina and for a time practiced in Asheville. Elected in 1854 as a Whig member of the North Carolina House of Commons, Vance in 1858 won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, running on the Know-Nothing ticket. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, however, he sided with the Confederacy and organized his own company of troops.

      Vance ran for governor of North Carolina in 1862 and won reelection in 1864. In May 1865 he surrendered to federal military authorities and shortly thereafter was imprisoned in Washington, D.C. Vance was pardoned in 1867 and soon plunged back into politics. In 1870 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, but the Radical Republicans refused to let him take his seat.

      In 1876 Vance was again elected governor of North Carolina, marking the end of the Reconstruction governments in that state. After two years of his four-year term, he was elected to the U.S. Senate and took his seat on March 18, 1879. Reelected twice (for terms beginning in 1885 and 1891), he opposed the protective tariff, the internal-revenue system, civil-service reform, and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Act. His name is not associated with any constructive legislation.

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