De Alva S. Alexander

De Alva S. Alexander

De Alva Stanwood Alexander (born July 17, 1846 in Richmond , Sagadahoc County , Maine , †  January 30, 1925 in Buffalo , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1897 and 1911 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

De Alva Alexander attended public schools in his homeland. In 1859 he moved to Ohio with his mother . From 1862 to 1865, despite his youth, he took part in the Civil War as a soldier in a volunteer infantry unit from Ohio . After the war he continued his education at the Edward Little Institute in Auburn . In 1870 he graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick . Later he was a member of the supervisory board of this educational institution for many years. That same year he moved to Fort Wayne , Indiana , where he was the co-owner and associate editor of the Daily Gazette from 1871 to 1874 . Politically, he joined the Republican Party . In June 1872 he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia , at which President Ulysses S. Grant was nominated for re-election.

From 1874 Alexander lived in Indianapolis , where he worked as a newspaper correspondent. From 1874 to 1878 he served as party secretary on the state board of the Republicans for Indiana. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1877, he began working in this profession in Indianapolis. Between 1881 and 1885 he was auditor of the US Treasury Department ( Auditor of the Treasury Department ). He also became a tenure regional commander of the Grand Army of the Republic Veterans Association for the Potomac District. In 1885 he moved to Buffalo. Between 1889 and 1893 he succeeded Daniel N. Lockwood as a federal attorney for the northern part of New York state.

In the congressional election of 1896 , Alexander was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 33rd  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Charles Daniels on March 4, 1897 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1911 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . Since 1903 he represented the then newly established 36th district of his state in Congress. From 1909 to 1911 he was chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors .

In 1910, Alexander was not re-elected. After his time in the US House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He also worked on historical treatises on New York State. He died on January 30, 1925 in Buffalo, where he was also buried.

Web links

• De Alva S. Alexander in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• De Alva S. Alexander in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Charles Daniels	United States House of Representatives for New York (33rd constituency) March 4, 1897 - March 3, 1903	Charles W. Gillet
new constituency	United States House Representative for New York (36th constituency) March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1911	Charles Bennett Smith