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Roger Atkinson Pryor
Birth: 7-19-1828
Death: 3-14-1919
Biography
Born in Virginia, studied law, but pursued journalism because of failing health. Served the remainder of William O. Goode's U.S. congressional term from 1859-1861. Served in the Confederate Army at the start of the U.S. Civil War, then elected as a member of the Confederate House of Representatives. After the war, he moved to New York City where he practiced law and was eventually appointed a justice of the New York Supreme Court. Frances "Fanny" Seward references him in her 1860 pocket diary in relation to a sermon she heard in Washington, D.C. that condemned his involvement with John Fox Potter in an aborted duel in 1860.
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Born in Virginia, studied law, but pursued journalism because of failing health. Served the remainder of William O. Goode's U.S. congressional term from 1859-1861. Served in the Confederate Army at the start of the U.S. Civil War, then elected as a member of the Confederate House of Representatives. After the war, he moved to New York City where he practiced law and was eventually appointed a justice of the New York Supreme Court. Frances "Fanny" Seward references him in her 1860 pocket diary in relation to a sermon she heard in Washington, D.C. that condemned his involvement with John Fox Potter in an aborted duel in 1860.
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Roger Atkinson Pryor - History, Art, & Archives US House of Representatives
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Roger Atkinson Pryor - History, Art, & Archives US House of Representatives
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Historical Data Systems, Inc.; Duxbury, MA 02331; American Civil War Research Database
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Historical Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
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