Alexander B. Montgomery

Alexander B. Montgomery

Alexander Brooks Montgomery (born December 11, 1837 in Hardin County , Kentucky , †  December 27, 1910 in Elizabethtown , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1887 and 1895 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Alexander Montgomery attended both public and private schools and then Georgetown College until 1859 . In the following years he worked in the Hardin County in agriculture. After studying law at Louisville Law School and being admitted to the bar in 1870, he began practicing this profession in Elizabethtown. Between 1870 and 1874 Montgomery was a District Judge in Hardin County. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Kentucky Senate from 1877 to 1881 . In the congressional elections of 1886 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Thomas A. Robertson on March 4, 1887 . After three re-elections he was able to complete four consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1895 . From 1891 he was chairman of the Committee on Control of Expenditures of the Ministry of War.

In the elections of 1894 he was defeated by Republican John W. Lewis . Between 1895 and 1898 Montgomery was a member of the Dawes Indian Commission ; after that he worked as a lawyer again. He died in Elizabethtown on December 27, 1910.

Web links

• Alexander B. Montgomery in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Alexander B. Montgomery in the database of Find a Grave (English)