Thomas Jordan Jarvis
| Thomas Jordan Jarvis | |
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United States Senator from North Carolina |
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In office April 19, 1894 – January 23, 1895 |
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| Preceded by | Zebulon Baird Vance |
| Succeeded by | Jeter C. Pritchard |
| 16th United States Minister to Brazil | |
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In office July 11, 1885 – November 19, 1888 |
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| President | Grover Cleveland |
| Preceded by | Thomas A. Osborn |
| Succeeded by | Robert Adams, Jr. |
| 44th Governor of North Carolina | |
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In office February 5, 1879 – January 21, 1885 |
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| Lieutenant | James L. Robinson |
| Preceded by | Zebulon Baird Vance |
| Succeeded by | Alfred Moore Scales |
| 3rd Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina | |
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In office January 1, 1877 – February 5, 1879 |
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| Governor | Zebulon Baird Vance |
| Preceded by | Curtis H. Brogden |
| Succeeded by | James L. Robinson |
| Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives | |
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In office November 21, 1870 – November 18, 1872 |
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| Preceded by | W. A. Moore |
| Succeeded by | James L. Robinson |
| Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for Tyrrell | |
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In office November 16, 1868 – November 18, 1872 |
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| Preceded by | N. W. Walker (as Member, House of Commons) |
| Succeeded by | B. Jones |
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January 18, 1836 Jarvisburg, North Carolina |
| Died | June 17, 1915 (aged 79) Greenville, North Carolina |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | Randoph-Macon College |
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 Confederate States
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| Service/branch | Confederate States Army |
| Years of service | 1861–1864 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Unit | Eighth North Carolina Regiment |
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Thomas Jordan Jarvis (January 18, 1836 – June 17, 1915) was the 44th 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, and helped establish East Carolina Teachers Training School, now known as East Carolina University, in 1907.
Born in Jarvisburg, North Carolina, in Currituck County, he was the son of Elizabeth Daley and Bannister Hardy Jarvis, a Methodist minister and farmer and brother of George, Ann, Margaret, and Elizabeth. His family was of English descent and some of its members highlighted at various points in the history of North Carolina. So, Thomas Jarvis was lieutenant governor of Albemarle during the government of Philip Ludwell, between 1691–97, and General Samuel Jarvis led the militia of Albemarle during his fight in the Revolutionary War. Raised in a poor family, although he had the necessities of life, Jarvis worked when he was young in three hundred acre farm owned by his father, while he was studying about the common schools. Jarvis was educated locally and at nineteen went on to attend Randoph-Macon College, earning an M.A. in 1861. He had to exercise as teacher during the summer to pay for college tuition. 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. On April 22, 1863 he was named Captain. Captured and exchanged in 1862, Jarvis, was injured and permanently disabled at the Battle of Drewry's Bluff in 1864. After the war ended, he was on sick leave in Norfolk and in May 1865, he got probation, returning to Jarvisburg.
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