Adam Rankin Alexander

Adam Rankin Alexander (born November 1, 1781 in Rockbridge County , Virginia , †  November 1, 1848 in Jackson , Tennessee ) was an American politician . Between 1823 and 1827 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Adam Alexander initially worked as a land surveyor . Since 1817 he pursued a political career in Tennessee as a member of the Democratic Republican Party . That year he was elected to the State Senate. At the time he was working for the Madison County Land Registry . There he also became a member of the district court.

In the congressional election of 1822 , Alexander was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second constituency of Tennessee , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1823. This seat had remained vacant in the previous legislature because Henry Hunter Bryan , who was re-elected in 1820, was no longer admitted. After a re-election in 1824 in the ninth district, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1827 . These were overshadowed by the discussions between supporters and opponents of the future President Andrew Jackson . Adam Alexander was a supporter of Jackson. In 1828 it was not confirmed.

In 1834, Alexander attended the Tennessee State Abolition Convention as a delegate . From 1841 to 1843 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee . He died in Jackson on November 1, 1848, his 67th birthday, and was buried in Pryor Cemetery in Marshall County , Mississippi .

Remarks

1. ↑ According to other sources, he died in Chulahoma , Mississippi

Web links

• Adam Rankin Alexander in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Adam Rankin Alexander in the database of Find a Grave (English)