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The middle name of Zeb Vance was Baird. Vance was a U.S. Representative and Senator from North Carolina, as well as the 22nd Governor of North Carolina. He was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina, in 1830. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1850. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After the war, he was elected to the U.S.