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Biographical Description

Zebulon Baird Vance, Jr. was born on March 22, 1860, in North Carolina. Vance was the son of former governor and United States Senator Zebulon Baird Vance. He was a Naval Academy graduate (1881) and career army officer who retired with the rank of major. He died in Black Mountain (Buncombe County) on May 22, 1924.