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Thomas Jordan Jarvis ( 18 January 1836 -- 17 June 1915 ) was the Democratic Governor of the U.S. State of North Carolina from 1879 to 1885 . Jarvis later served as a U.S. Senator from 1894 to 1895 . Born in Jarvisburg, North Carolina , in Currituck County , the son of a Methodist minister, Jarvis was educated locally and went on to attend Raldoph-Macon College , earning an M.A. in 1861 . An educator by training, Jarvis opened a school in Pasquotank County and would later be one of the founders of East Carolina University . Jarvis enlisted in the military at the beginning of the American Civil War and served in the Eighth North Carolina Regiment . Captured and exchanged in 1862 , Jarvis, by then a Captain, was injured and permanently disable at the Battle Of Drewry's Bluff in 1864 . In 1865 , Jarvis returned home and opened a general store before being named a delegate to the 1865 state constitutional convention. Active in the Democratic Party , Jarvis was elected to the State House in 1868 and served there for four years, two of them ( 1870 - 1872 ) as Speaker of the House. An opponent of federal Reconstruction policy, Jarvis was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1876 on a ticket with Zebulon Vance . Jarvis also married Mary Woodson in December 1874 . In 1879 , Vance resigned the governorship to serve in the United States Senate , and Jarvis filled the vacant position. He won election in his own right in 1880 , defeating Daniel G. Fowle for the Democratic nomination and narrowly winning over Republican challenger Ralph Buxton. Term-limited, Jarvis stepped down as governor in 1885 , but was appointed United States Ambassador to Brazil by President Grover Cleveland . Jarvis held this post for four years, after which he practiced law in Greenville, North Carolina . Following Senator Vance's death in 1892 , Jarvis again succeeded him in office, serving as a U.S. Senator from until 1895 , but was not elected to a term of his own. In 1896 , Jarvis was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention , where he supported William Jennings Bryan , his last major political act before his death in Greenville in 1915 . EXTERNAL LINK |
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