Alexander McDonald

Alexander McDonald

Alexander McDonald (born April 10, 1832 in Lock Haven , Clinton County , Pennsylvania , †  December 13, 1903 in Norwood , New York ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Arkansas in the US Senate .

Alexander McDonald received his training at the Dickinson seminary school in Williamsport and then attended Lewisburg University . In 1857 he moved to Kansas , where he worked as a businessman; after the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Union Army . After retiring from the military, he went into banking in Arkansas and eventually settled in Little Rock .

In his new home he took part in the state's constitutional convention. After Arkansas, one of the defeated southern states in the Civil War , was admitted to the Union again in 1868, McDonald and Benjamin F. Rice were given the mandate to represent the state as a senator in Congress in Washington . Since he was given the seat of class 2 , McDonald had to stand for election again in 1870 and was defeated by his inner-party opponent Powell Clayton , so that his time in the Senate ended on March 3, 1871.

A few years later, McDonald was entrusted by US President Chester A. Arthur with the task of putting parts of the Northern Pacific Railroad to the test. He resigned from this post in 1885. He then worked in the railroad business and moved to New York in 1900 . Alexander McDonald, who died in December 1903, was buried in his home town of Lock Haven.

Web links

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

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