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Roger Atkinson Pryor (July 19, 1828 – March 14, 1919) was a newspaper editor and politician in Virginia who became known for his fiery oratory in favor of secession; he was elected both to national and Confederate office, and served as a general for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. In 1865 he moved to New York City to remake his life, and in 1868 brought up his family. He was among a number of influential southerners in the North who became known as "Confederate carpetbaggers."〔〔David W. Blight, ''Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory'', Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001, p. 90〕 He became a law partner with Benjamin F. Butler (based in Boston), noted in the South as a hated Union general during the war. Their partnership was financially successful, and Pryor became active in the Democratic Party in the North. In 1877 he was chosen to give a Decoration Day address, in which, according to one interpretation, he vilified Reconstruction and promoted the Lost Cause, while reconciling the noble soldiers as victims of politicians.〔Blight (2001), ''Race and Reunion'', pp. 90-91〕〔In a less strident interpretation, in ''The Confederate Carpetbaggers'', Daniel E. Sutherland states: "Pryor responded with the best-reasoned, least passionate public statement on reconciliation given by a southerner in the North." Sutherland, Daniel E. ''The Confederate Carpetbaggers''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8071-1393-6. p. 249.〕 In 1890 he joined the Sons of the American Revolution, one of the new heritage societies that was created following celebration of the United States Centennial. He was appointed as judge of the New York Court of Common Pleas from 1890 to 1894, and justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1894 to his retirement in 1899.〔 On April 10, 1912, he was appointed official referee by the appellate division of the state Supreme Court, where he served until his death. He and his wife Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, also a Virginian, had seven children together, the last born in 1868. Active in founding several heritage societies, she organized fundraising for historic preservation. She was a writer and had several works: histories, memoirs, and novels, published by the Macmillan Company in the first decade of the twentieth century. Her memoirs have been important sources for historians doing research on southern society during and after the Civil War. ==Early life and education== Pryor was born near Petersburg, Virginia at Montrose as the second child of Lucy Atkinson and Theodorick Bland Pryor, a minister. He had an older sister Lucy. His father was a grandson of Richard Bland〔Scott pp. 585-590〕 and his paternal ancestors were descended from early Virginia colonists. After his mother died young, his father remarried and had several children with his second wife. Pryor graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1845 and from the law school of the University of Virginia in 1848.〔 The following year, he was admitted to the bar, but abandoned law on account of ill health. He started working as a journalist before his marriage. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roger Atkinson Pryor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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