Biography
Alexander was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia on November 1, 1781 to Oliver and Mary ( Craig) Alexander. Educator Eben Alexander (educator), Eben Alexander was his grandson.Career
During the War of 1812, Alexander served from October 4, 1813, to January 4, 1814. He served as a private in Captain William Dooley's Company; and as a Lieutenant and Quartermaster in Thomas McCrory's 2nd Regiment, West Tennessee Militia. He married Leah Reagan, a Virginia native, on March 26, 1805, in Blount County, Tennessee. Alexander worked as a Surveyor (surveying), surveyor, and afterwards, he was the register of the land office for the tenth surveyors' district in Madison County, Tennessee. He was a member of the court of Madison County in 1821. He became a member of the Tennessee Senate in 1817. Elected as a Democratic-Republican Party (United States), Jacksonian Republican to the Eighteenth United States Congress, Eighteenth and as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth United States Congress, succeeding Congress, Alexander served as a U.S. Representative from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1827. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the Twentieth United States Congress, Twentieth Congress in 1827, and lost his seat to frontiersman Davy Crockett. Alexander represented Shelby County, Tennessee, at the Tennessee constitutional convention in 1834. He was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1841 and 1843.Death
Alexander died on November 1, 1848, aged 67, in Marshall County, Mississippi. He is burial, interred at Alexander-Pryor Family Cemetery, Laws Hill, Marshall County, Mississippi.References
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