Armstead M. Alexander

Armstead Milton Alexander (born May 26, 1834 in Winchester , Kentucky , †  November 7, 1892 in Paris , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

While still a child, Armstead Alexander and his parents came to Monroe County , Missouri, where the family settled near Paris. There he attended public schools and was trained as a blacksmith. In 1849 he joined the gold rush in California and worked for a time in the gold mining business. He later returned to the East, where he attended Bethany College in what is now West Virginia in 1853 . He then returned to Paris and worked there as a private businessman.

During the Civil War , Alexander served as a soldier in the Confederate Army . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1870, he began to work in this profession in Paris. Between 1872 and 1876 he was a district attorney in Monroe County. Politically, Alexander was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1875 he attended a meeting to revise the Missouri Constitution as a delegate.

In the congressional election of 1882 , Alexander was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded James Henry McLean on March 4, 1883 . Since he was no longer nominated for re-election by his party in 1884, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1885 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Armstead Alexander practiced law again. He died on November 7, 1892 in Paris, where he was buried.

Web links

• Armstead M. Alexander in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Armstead M. Alexander in the database of Find a Grave (English)