Alexander Boteler

Alexander Boteler

Alexander Robinson Boteler (born May 16, 1815 in Shepherdstown , Jefferson County , Virginia (now West Virginia ), † May 8, 1892 ibid) was an American politician who represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives and the Confederate Congress .

Career

Boteler graduated from Princeton College in 1835 and then engaged in agricultural and literary work. In 1858 he decided to embark on a political career by running as an oppositionist for a seat in the US House of Representatives , where he worked from 1859 to 1861 after a successful election. When the Civil War broke out , he joined the Confederate Army , where he became a member of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's staff during the war . The Virginia Convention also elected him in 1861 as a delegate to the Provisional Confederate Congress . He was also elected to the Confederate Congress as a Democrat in the same year , where he remained from 1862 to 1864.

After the war he was appointed a member of the Centennial Commission in 1876 and later a member of the Tariff Commission by President Chester A. Arthur . He was also a pardon clerk in the US Department of Justice under Secretary Benjamin H. Brewster . Boteler died on May 8, 1892 in Shepherdstown and was buried in the local Elmwood Cemetery , where his wife Helen Stockon Boteler is also buried.

Web links

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

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