Pryor, Roger Atkinson

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    Full name
    Roger Atkinson Pryor
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
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    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    Education
    University of Virginia
    Other
    Other Education
    Hampden-Sidney College, VA
    Occupation
    Politician
    Military
    Attorney or Judge
    Journalist
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    Pierce Administration (1853-57)
    Confederate government (1861-65)
    Diplomat
    US House of Representatives
    State supreme court
    Military
    Confederate Army

    Roger Atkinson Pryor (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    PRYOR, Roger Atkinson, a Representative from Virginia; born near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., July 19, 1828; was graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, in 1845 and from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1848; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and practiced a short time in Petersburg, but abandoned law on account of ill health; engaged on the editorial staff of the Washington Union in 1852 and the Richmond Enquirer in 1854; appointed special United States Minister to Greece in 1854; returned and established The South in 1857; associated himself with the staff of the Washington States; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William O. Goode and served from December 7, 1859, to March 3, 1861; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as a colonel in 1861 and brigadier general in 1863; later resigned his commission and reenlisted as a private soldier; member of the Virginia Confederate House of Representatives; captured by the Union troops in November 1864 and confined in Fort Lafayette, but soon afterward was released; moved to New York City and practiced law 1866-1890; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876; judge of the court of common pleas of New York 1890-1894; justice of the New York Supreme Court 1894-1899; retired upon reaching the age limit; appointed official referee by the appellate division of the supreme court April 10, 1912, and served until his death in New York City March 14, 1919; interment in Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
    "Pryor, Roger Atkinson," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000558.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    Holzman, Robert S. Adapt or Perish: The Life of General Roger A. Pryor, C.S.A. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1976. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Pryor, Roger Atkinson," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6439.