Editing Jeter C. Pritchard (section)

==Federal judicial service==

Pritchard was nominated by President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] on November 10, 1903, to an Associate Justice seat on the [[Supreme Court of the District of Columbia]] (now the [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia]]) vacated by Associate Justice [[Harry M. Clabaugh]].<ref name="auto"/> He was confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] on November 16, 1903, and received his commission the same day.<ref name="auto"/> His service terminated on June 1, 1904, due to his elevation to the Fourth Circuit.<ref name="auto"/> While in office Pritchard twice offered resolutions demanding that the Senate declare the [[grandfather clause]] a violation of the [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth]] and [[Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifteenth Amendments]], but both attempts failed.<ref>Zucchino, pp. 312</ref>

Pritchard was nominated by President Roosevelt on April 27, 1904, to a joint seat on the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit]] and the [[United States circuit court|United States Circuit Courts for the Fourth Circuit]] vacated by Judge [[Charles Henry Simonton]].<ref name="auto"/> He was confirmed by the Senate on April 27, 1904, and received his commission the same day.<ref name="auto"/> On December 31, 1911, the Circuit Courts were abolished and he thereafter served only on the Court of Appeals.<ref name="auto"/> His service terminated on April 10, 1921, due to his death in [[Asheville, North Carolina|Asheville]], North Carolina.<ref name="auto"/> He was interred in the [[Riverside Cemetery (Asheville, North Carolina)|Riverside Cemetery]] in Asheville,<ref name="auto1"/> near fellow North Carolina Senators [[Thomas Lanier Clingman]] and [[Zebulon Baird Vance]].<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/asheville/riv.htm | title = Riverside Cemetery | work = [[National Park Service|nps.gov]] | publisher = [[National Register of Historic Places]] | access-date = 2008-02-25}}</ref>