Alexander Graves

This article is about the politician Alexander Graves. For the director Alexander Graves see Alex Graves .

Alexander Graves (born August 25, 1844 in Mount Carmel , Covington County , Mississippi , †  December 23, 1916 in Lexington , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Alexander Graves studied at Center College in Danville ( Kentucky ). During the Civil War he was a soldier in the Confederation Army ; while he was under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest . In May 1865 he was pardoned together with him in Gainesville ( Alabama ) and officially discharged from the army. He then continued his education until 1867 with a study at Oakland University , later Alcorn State University . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his license to practice law in 1869, he began to work in Lexington (Missouri) in this profession. In 1872 he became the legal representative of his new hometown and in 1874 he became a prosecutor in Lafayette County there .

Politically, Graves was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1882 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Richard P. Bland on March 4, 1883 , who moved to the eleventh district. Since he was defeated by Republican William Warner in 1884 , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1885 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Alexander Graves practiced as a lawyer again. Politically, he no longer appeared. He died on December 23, 1916 in Lexington, where he was also buried.

Web links

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

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