Robert B. Vance

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Robert Brank Vance (April 24, 1828 – November 28, 1899), nephew of the earlier Congressman Robert Brank Vance (1793-1827) and brother of Zebulon Baird Vance, was a North Carolina Democratic politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for six terms (1873-1885). He was chairman of the United States House Committee on Patents.

During the American Civil War, Vance served in the Confederate States Army, where he reached the rank of brigadier general.

After losing his seat in Congress, Vance served as federal Assistant Commissioner of Patents and later was elected to one term in the North Carolina House of Representatives (1894-1896).

Vance and his brother Zebulon are both interred in the Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, North Carolina.^[1]

[edit] See also

• List of American Civil War generals

[edit] References

• Congressional Biography