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Alexander Beaufort Meek (July 17, 1814 (Columbia, South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina

Columbia is the state capital and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 116,278 according to the United States Census, 2000 ....
) - November 30, 1865 (Columbus, Mississippi
Columbus, Mississippi

Columbus is a city in Lowndes County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States on the Tombigbee River. It is approximately northeast of Jackson, MS, north of Meridian, MS, south of Tupelo, Mississippi, and west of Birmingham, AL ....
)) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 politician, lawyer, chess player, writer and poet. He served as Alabama
Alabama

Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west....
's Attorney General
Attorney General

In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions....
 in 1836.








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Alexander Beaufort Meek (July 17, 1814 (Columbia, South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina

Columbia is the state capital and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 116,278 according to the United States Census, 2000 ....
) - November 30, 1865 (Columbus, Mississippi
Columbus, Mississippi

Columbus is a city in Lowndes County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States on the Tombigbee River. It is approximately northeast of Jackson, MS, north of Meridian, MS, south of Tupelo, Mississippi, and west of Birmingham, AL ....
)) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 politician, lawyer, chess player, writer and poet. He served as Alabama
Alabama

Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west....
's Attorney General
Attorney General

In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions....
 in 1836.

Works

  • Americanism in literature. An oration before the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian societies of the University of Georgia, at Athens, August 8, 1844, Charleston, Burges and James, printers, 1844, 39 p.
  • A digest of the laws of the state of Alabama, with John Gaston Aikin, 2nd edition. Tuscaloosa, Ala., D. Woodruff, 1836, 664p.
  • The Red Eagle. A poem of the South, New York, D. Appleton & company, 1855, 108 p.
    • Montgomery, Ala., The Paragon press, 1914
  • Romantic passages in southwestern history; including orations, sketches and essays, New York, Mobile, S.H. Goetzel & co., 1857, 330p.
    • Spartanburg, S.C. : Reprint Co., 1975
  • Songs and poems of the South, New York, Mobile, S. H. Goetzel & co., 1857, 282 p.
  • The South west: its history, character, and prospects, Tuscalossa, C. B. Baldwin, p’r., 1840, 40 p.