The Brightest Day of Republicanism Address (Classic Reprint)
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Every scrap of lumber is sold at prices far in excess of any figures here tofore realized. More cotton factories were built in North Carolina last year than in any state in the union.
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Jeter Connelly Pritchard was an American senator and federal judge.
Background
He was born on July 12, 1857 in Jonesboro, Tennessee, United States, of Irish and Welsh ancestry. His father was William H. Pritchard, a carpenter and builder, who died during service in the Confederate army; his mother was Elizabeth Brown. He was brought up in poverty.
Education
he attended first the Odd Fellows Institute and later Martin's Creek Academy in Tennessee where he received the whole of his formal education. He then read law.
Career
He was apprenticed to a printer and at the end of his term of service became foreman of the Jonesboro Tribune-Herald. In 1874 he walked to Bakersville, North Carolina, to take a similar position on the Roan Mountain Republican, of which he later became joint owner and editor.
He admitted to the bar in 1889, began practice at Marshall, North Carolina. Actively interested in politics, he was a candidate for elector in 1880 and was elected a member of the lower house of the General Assembly from Madison County in 1884 and in 1886. There he won attention and respect by his vigorous expression of his decided and progressive views. He was the candidate of his party for lieutenant-governor in 1888, and so greatly added to his reputation by his extended campaign that in the legislature of 1891, of which he was a member, he was the party nominee for the United States Senate. The next year he was a delegate at large to the Republican National Convention. He was also nominated for Congress but was defeated after a brilliant campaign which made him the undisputed leader of his party.
In 1894, as a result of a fusion of the Republicans and Populists, the Democrats lost control of the state and the legislature elected him to the Senate to fill out the unexpired term of Zebulon B. Vance, and in 1897 he was reelected for a full term. During this period he was state chairman of his party and a member of its national committee.
Defeated in 1903 he accepted a place as division council of the Southern Railway, but in November President Roosevelt appointed him associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. In April of the next year Roosevelt made him circuit judge of the fourth circuit, and in 1913 he was appointed presiding judge of the fourth circuit of the circuit court of appeals and held the position until his death. On appeal he was usually sustained by the Supreme Court. His opinions on cases involving the relations of capital and labor and of employers and employees were particularly able.
His attention was not completely absorbed by his judicial duties. Always interested in labor questions, he served in 1914 as president of a board of arbitration to settle the wages of employees of ninety-eight railroads.
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Personality
He was ambitious, had fighting spirit and straight-forward dealings with men and measures.
Connections
Pritchard was married three times: in 1877 to Augusta Ray, who died in 1885; on October 18, 1892, to Melissa Bowman; and on November 14, 1903, to Lillian E. Saum of Washington.