Thomas Settle papers, 1784, 1850-1924 [manuscript].

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Thomas Settle papers, 1784, 1850-1924 [manuscript].

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Political, personal, legal, and business papers of Thomas Settle, Jr., and his son, Thomas Settle III. Correspondence with many individuals concerns the establishment of the Republican Party in North Carolina during Reconstruction, and thereafter party organization, activities, patronage, conventions, factions, finances, and campaigns and elections in North Carolina and nationally; political issues in North Carolina, Florida, and the nation, mainly 1872-1897, including amendments to the North Carolina state constitution of 1876, charges of election fraud, election law reform, taxes, tariff, currency, banking regulations, prohibition, suffrage, state and national activities of the Populist Party; federal legislation, 1892-1897; and African Americans. Also included are papers concerning personal business, finances, lands, and legal cases. Judge Settle's Florida letters concern both his interest in North Carolina politics and cases he tried in northern Florida involving railroads, shipping, and homestead entries. The papers of Thomas Settle III date from 1884 to 1897. Also included are four political scrapbooks, 1866- 1912, and clippings and scattered papers relating to the political activities of Mary Settle (Mrs. B. C.) Sharpe, 1902-1904.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Thomas Settle, Jr., of Greensboro, N.C., was a North Carolina Supreme Court justice, 1868-1871, chairman of the Republican National Convention, 1872, and U.S. district judge at Jacksonville, Fla., 1877-1888. Also represented in the collection is his son, Thomas Settle III (1865-1919), lawyer in Rockingham and Guilford counties, N.C., state district solicitor, 1886-1893, and Republican U.S. representative, 1893-1897. From the description of Thomas Settle papers, 1784, 1850-1924 [manus...

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