| Zebulon Vance  AKA Zebulon Baird Vance
Born: 13-May-1830
Birthplace: Buncombe County, NC
Died: 14-Apr-1894
Location of death: Asheville, NC
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, NC
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Politician
Party Affiliation: Democratic [1] Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Governor and Senator from N. Carolina The American politician Zebulon Vance was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina, on the 13th of May 1830. He was educated at Washington College, at Salem, Tennessee, and the University of North Carolina (1851-52). Entering politics as a Whig, he was elected solicitor of Buncombe county (1852) and a member of the state House of Commons (1854), and served in the national House of Representatives from December 1858 until the 3rd of March 1861. As captain of a company in the 14th and as colonel of the 26th North Carolina regiments, he took part in the Virginia campaigns of 1861-62. From 1862 until the close of the war he was Governor of the state, and from the 20th of May to the 5th of July 1865, when he was released on parole, was held as a prisoner by the United States authorities in Washington. Having been elected to the United States Senate in 1870 and been refused admission because his disabilities -- due to his participation in the war -- had not been removed, he took the lead in the fight against "carpet-bag" misrule and was chosen Governor in the political revolution of 1876, serving in 1877-79. He was again elected to the Senate in 1878 and was re-elected in 1884 and 1890, serving from March 1879 until his death. Senator Vance was a typical Southern Whig. He disliked slavery and he hated secession. In common with other Whigs, he was forced to remain in the Democratic party after the war by the fear of negro domination. He died at Asheville, North Carolina, on the 14th of April 1894.
[1] Whig, later a Democrat.
US Senator, North Carolina (4-Mar-1879 to 14-Apr-1894, his death)
Governor of North Carolina (1877-79)
US Senator, North Carolina Elected 1870, refused admission
Governor of North Carolina (1862-65, under the Confederacy)
US Congressman, North Carolina (7-Dec-1858 to 3-Mar-1861)
National Statuary Hall (1916)
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