- Luke Pryor
Luke Pryor (
July 5 1820 –August 5 1900 ) was a U.S. senator from the state ofAlabama . He was appointed to fill the Senate term left by the death ofGeorge S. Houston and served fromJanuary 7 toNovember 23 1880 , when a replacement was elected. Pryor was a Democrat. He is interred at City Cemetery in Athens, Alabama. [cite web | title = The Political Graveyard | url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LI.html#RAZ0VIQCB | accessdate = 2006-12-23 ]Biography
Birth and Parentage
Born 1820 in
Alabama to parents Luke Pryor and Ann Batte Lane. His father's first marriage was to Martha Scott, a sister of GeneralWinfield Scott . His brother was the noted race horse trainerJohn Benjamin Pryor ofNatchez, Mississippi .cite web | title = Tennessee Pryors, Alabama Census Extractions | url=http://www.tnpryors.com/states_census/alabama.htm | accessdate = 2006-12-23 ]Life in Alabama
Pryor married Isabella Virginia Harris. They were the parents of 8 children all born in Alabama. Luke Pryor lived at the
Sugar Creek Plantation , inAthens, Alabama for 40 years before his death. [ [http://www.hattonbrown.com/vserver/hb/display.cfm?MagazineKey=3&IssueKey=408&SectionKey=1313&ArticleKey=878] ] [http://www.genealogyforum.com/gfnews/september99/al.htm Pryor House] , built in 1836, stands as a historic building inLimestone County, Alabama . Pryor studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1841.cite web | title = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000557 | accessdate = 2006-12-23 ] On the 1850 United States Census his occupation was recorded as "lawyer."Luke Pryor was a slave owner. On the 1840 Census 6 free blacks under the age of 10 were recorded in his father's household, as well as 1 male slave child under 10 and an older female between the ages of 55 and 100. By 1850 Luke Pryor was recorded with 39 slaves between the ages of 70 years old and as young as 4 months, however in 1860 only two slaves were recorded in his household. It should be noted that the
American Civil War did not begin untilApril 12, 1861 and slavery was not completely abolished until the 1865 after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.References
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