Alexander Boarman

Alexander Boarman

Alexander Boarman (born December 10, 1839 in Yazoo City , Mississippi , †  August 30, 1916 in Loon Lake , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1872 and 1873 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives ; he then became a federal judge on the federal appeals court for the western district of Louisiana.

Career

After the early death of his parents, Alexander Boarman was raised by relatives in Shreveport . There he also attended the public schools. He was then enrolled at the Kentucky Military Institute in Frankfort , before studying at the University of Kentucky in Lexington until 1860 . During the Civil War he was an officer in the army of the Confederate States . He achieved the rank of captain by the end of the war in 1865.

After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1866, he began to work in Shreveport in this profession. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the short-lived Liberal Republican Party . He served as Mayor of Shreveport in 1866 and 1867; from 1868 to 1872 he was the legal representative of this city. In 1872, Boarman ran unsuccessfully for Secretary of State of Louisiana.

After the death of MP James McCleery , Boarman was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election due for the fourth seat of Louisiana , where he took up his new mandate on December 3, 1872. Since he was not nominated for re-election by his party in 1872, he was only able to end the current term of his predecessor in Congress until March 3, 1873 . After leaving the House of Representatives, Boarman initially worked again as a lawyer in Shreveport. Between 1877 and 1880 he was a judge in the Louisiana Tenth District Judge. From 1881 until his death, he served as a judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana . Alexander Boarman died on August 30, 1916 while visiting Loon Lake, New York. He was buried in Shreveport. He was succeeded as federal judge by George W. Jack .

Web links

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

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