Thomas Settle (1865 - 1919)

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Thomas Settle (1865-1919), son of Thomas Settle (1831-1888) and grandson of Thomas Settle (1789-1857), was a lawyer and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina.

Settle was born near Wentworth, Rockingham County, N.C., on March 10, 1865. He attended the public schools and Georgetown University, studied law in Greensboro, N.C.; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in Wentworth. Settle served as solicitor of the ninth judicial district (1886-1894) before he was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897). Settle was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings during the Fifty-fourth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896. He resumed the practice of his profession in Asheville, N.C.; appointed by the Department of Justice as special attorney to the United States Court of Customs in New York City in 1909, and served in that capacity until 1910. Settle was unsuccessful candidate for Governor of North Carolina (like his father before him) in 1912. He died in Asheville, N.C., on January 20, 1919; interment in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.