Robert Alexander (politician)

Robert Alexander (around 1740 in Elkton , Cecil County , Province of Maryland , † November 20, 1805 in London , England ) was an American plantation owner , lawyer and politician .

Career

Alexander was born on the family estate in Cecil County, now part of Elkton, Maryland, in 1740. He studied law , got his lawyer license, and began practicing in Baltimore . Later he decided to pursue a political career. He served three times, in 1774, 1775, and 1776, in the Maryland Provincial Congress. During this time he was also Secretary to the Baltimore Committee of Observation and in 1775 a member of the Council of Safety . On June 6, 1776, he was appointed First Lieutenant in the Baltimore Militia. He was also a member of the Continental Congress in the same year . After the proclamation of the American Declaration of Independence ( Engl. Declaration of Independence ) he fled from Maryland to the British fleet. He joined the Associated Loyalists of America and sailed to London in 1782, where he stayed for the rest of his life. The main reasons for his flight to England were on the one hand that he was found guilty of high treason in 1780 and his property was confiscated, and on the other hand that the British troops threatened to lose the war .

literature

• Janet B. Johnson; "Robert Alexander, Maryland Loyalist" ; 1942; Reissued in 1969 by Irvington Publishing, ISBN 0-8398-0960-3 .

Web links

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