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Pryor, Roger Atkinson 1828-
Jurist; born in Dinwiddie county, Va., July 19, 1828; graduated at Hampden-Sydney College in 1845, and at the University of Virginia in 1848; became a lawyer and editor, and an advocate of State supremacy.
In 1854 he was a special commissioner to Greece, and in 1859 was elected to Congress.
He was an advocate of secession; went to South Carolina early in 1861; was on the staff of Beauregard in the attack upon Fort Sumter in April; was commissioned a brigadier-general and led a division in the battles before Richmond in 1862, and resigned in 1863.
He was a member of the Confederate Congress in 1862; and was captured and confined in Fort Lafayette in 1864.
After the war he urged loyalty to the government; in 1865 removed to New York City to practise law; and became a justice of the Supreme Court of New York.