Thomas Settle (North Carolina, 53rd–54th Congress)

Thomas Settle ( born March 10, 1865 in Wentworth, Rockingham County, North Carolina; † January 20, 1919 in Asheville, North Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the state of North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Settle came from an illustrious family of politicians. His eponymous father was a judge and local politicians in North Carolina; his grandfather Thomas Settle (1789-1857) was also a congressman. He attended the common schools and then the Georgetown University in Washington DC After a subsequent study of law in Greensboro and his 1885 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Wentworth in this profession. Between 1886 and 1894 he was a prosecutor in the ninth judicial district of his state.

Politically, Settle member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1892 he was in the fifth constituency of North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Archibald Hunter Arrington Williams on March 4, 1893. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1897 two legislative sessions. Since 1895 he was chairman of the Committee for the control of expenditure on public buildings. In 1896 he was defeated by Democrat William Walton Kitchin.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Settle practiced law in Asheville. In the years 1909 and 1910 he was a prosecutor at the customs court in New York City. 1912 Settle ran for the governorship of North Carolina, but finished with 17.8 percent of the vote only to third place behind the victorious Democrats Locke Craig and Iredell Meares of the Progressive Party. He died on 20 January 1919 in Asheville and was buried in Wilmington.