James H. Southgate
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James Haywood Southgate (July 12, 1859 – September 29, 1916), was an American spokesman for prohibition. He served as the vice presidential candidate of a faction of the Prohibition Party which broke away from the main party in 1896, running with Charles Eugene Bentley.
Biography
Southgate was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on 12 July 1859, the son of James and Delia (née Haywood) Southgate, and was a descendant of John Southgate of England. He moved with his parents to North Carolina in 1861; there, he attended local academies, and the University of North Carolina (1876–78). He was engaged in the banking and insurance business in Durham, North Carolina, after 1882. That year, he married Katherine "Kate" Fuller, the daughter of Bartholomew and Wilhelmena (née Haldane) Fuller. They had two sons before her sudden death in 1893.
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A civic leader in Durham, Southgate became a trustee of both Trinity College and Duke University in that city. Southgate died at his home, "Southgate Cabin," in Durham on 29 September 1916 at the age of 57. He was laid to rest in the Maplewood Cemetery in that city.
References
Colvin, David Leigh, "Prohibition in the United States: A History of the Prohibition Party, and of the Prohibition Movement" (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926), 256-57.
Russell, Mattie U., "Southgate, James Haywood" in William S. Powell, ed., "Dictionary of North Carolina Biography" (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press; six volumes, 1979–96), V:401-02.
"[Obituary:] Jas. H. Southgate, Prohibitionist," The New York Times, 30 September 1916, 11.