Herbert F. Seawell

Born in Duplin County, North Carolina, to Dr. Virgil Newton Seawell and Ella Croom, Seawell attended Wake Forest College and received his law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law.

He gained admission to the bar in the state in 1892, and entered the private practice of law in Carthage, North Carolina.

[1] Seawell's first foray into politics was in 1894, when he ran as a Republican candidate for solicitor in the Seventh Judicial District.

[4] A court voided the election outcome, but Seawell declined a temporary appointment to the position offered by Governor Elias Carr, preferring to seek a judgment of entitlement to hold the office for the full four-year term.

[10] Seawell retired from the practice of law around 1946 due to illness, and died at his home in Carthage in 1949, at the age of 79.