The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-11
JUDGE PR|TCHARD TAKEN BY DEATH;
 ILL THREE DAYS
JuriSt Stood High In Councils of Republican Party and Was Mentioned as Running
 Mate for Harding
Rr Assneiatad Prn.s

Asheville, N. C., April 10.-Federal Judge Jeter Conley Pritchard. of the United States circuit court for the Fourth district, died here this morning at 6 o'clock following an illness of sew eral months. Death of the famous jur- st was due directly to pneumonia which developed Thursday, and served to aggravate his previous physical af- fiictions. He was in his sixty fourth year.
 Judge Pritchard, son of William H.. Pritchard, was born in Jonesboro, Tenn, April 12, 1857. his father being of Irish and Welsh ancestry and his mother, Elizabeth Brown, of Irish par entage. Facing the problem of obtain ing an education during the trying days of reconstruction in the southland. and after the death of his father at Mobile, his mother instilled into his mind and heart those stern precepts of morality by which he has ever been governed.
 Judge Pritchard. yet in his teens, walked 35 miles across the mountains of east Tennessee and western North Carolina to Bakersville, where he ar rived with 10 cents and nothing more save the clothes he wore. Fixing out his subsistence through toll in the print shop by day, he studied diligently by night
 ENTERS POLITICS
 It was then that he received the at tention of statesmen in North Carolina and identifying himself with the re- publican party began a career, the prominence and limitations of which were only stopped by his declining health. Entering politics he was elect ed to the North Carolina state house of representatives from Madison county in 1885 and again in 1887. Pursuing g his method of home study until master of Blackstone and legal procedure, he obtained law license in 1887.
 In 1883 he was nominated as re- publican candidate for lieutenant gov ernor of this state. He then became the caucus nominee of his party for the Senate of the United States and was reelected to the legislature in 1891. He was elected for a two-year term to the United States Senate in 1895, and was reelected to the six year term in 1897.
 The establishment of the Farmers alliance at tnlS tune ana It's coalition with the populist party brought about a change in the political situation. and he succeeded in consolidating the fac tions into a cooperative campaign and the state went republican.
 r MENTIONED FOR HARDING
 On April 1, 1903, he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to the supreme court bench of the District of Columbia Upon the death of Judge Simonton the President advanced | Judge Pritchard to the judegship oi the United States circuit court for re Fourth district April g. 1904 which po- sition he held until his death
 | As national committeeman and a, federal judge, the jurist received na- | tional note and in the campaign last fall was prominently mentioned fol Vice President of the United States and the republican national convention was given complimentary vote.
 He is survived by his widow. q daughter, wife of Ex- Solicitor Thoma. A. Rollins; three sons. pr. Arthur T. Solicitor George M. and Attorney Mo Kinley Pritchard, and a sister, Mrs. J Tharris. all of Asheville,