Jeter Connelly Pritchard

Jeter Connelly Pritchard (July 12, 1857 – April 10, 1921) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Fourth Circuit and previously was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Education and career Born on July 12, 1857, in Jonesboro, Washington County, Tennessee, Pritchard was apprenticed to the printer's trade, then moved to Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, in 1873. He became joint editor and owner of the Roan Mountain Republican. He attended the Martins Creek Academy in Tennessee. He was a Presidential Elector on the Republican Party ticket in North Carolina in 1880. He read law and was admitted to the bar in 1889. He entered private practice in Marshall, North Carolina, starting in 1889. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1885 to 1889, and from 1891 to 1893. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1888 and an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator in 1891. He was President of the North Carolina Protective Tariff League in 1891. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States House of Representatives of the 53rd United States Congress in 1892. Congressional service