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Roger Atkinson Pryor was born near Petersburg, Virginia, on the 19th of July 1828. He was the second child of Lucy Atkinson and Theodorick Bland Pryor, a minister. He had an older sister Lucy.
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Roger A. Pryor, of Virginia, on the Principles and Policy of the Black Republican Party: Delivered in the House of Representatives, December 29, 1859 When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be; When the devil got well, the devil a saint was he. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Roger Atkinson Pryor was born near Petersburg, Virginia, on the 19th of July 1828. He was the second child of Lucy Atkinson and Theodorick Bland Pryor, a minister. He had an older sister Lucy.
He graduated at Hampden-Sidney College in 1845 and at the law school of the university of Virginia in 1848, and in 1849 was admitted to the bar.
He devoted himself for some years to journalism.
He served as a Democrat in the National House of Representatives from December 1859 to March 1861, and was re-elected for the succeeding term, but owing to the secession of Virginia did not take his seat. He served in the provisional Confederate congress (1861) and also in the first regular congress (1862) of the Confederate constitution.
He entered the Confederate army as a colonel, became a brigadier-general (April 16, 1862), and took part in the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, second Bull Run and Antietam. Owing to a disagreement with President Davis he resigned his commission in 1863, but entered General Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry as a private in August of that year. He was taken prisoner on the 28th of November 1864, but was released on parole by order of the president.
In 1865 he removed to New York City, where he practised law. He was judge of the New York court of common pleas in 1890-1894, and of the New York supreme court in 1894-1899.
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Member of the Confederate States House of Representatives from Virginia.
On November 8, 1848, Pryor married Sara Agnes Rice, daughter of Samuel Blair Rice and his second wife, Lucy Walton Leftwich, of Halifax County, Virginia. Sara and Roger A. Pryor had seven children together.
