Mark Alexander, politician (February 7, 1792 – October 7, 1883)
was a nineteenth-century lawyer from Virginia

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Born on a plantation near Boydton, Virginia

Boydton, Virginia

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, Alexander attended the public schools as a child and graduated from the University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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 in 1811. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Boydton. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates

Virginia House of Delegates

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 from 1815 to 1819 before he was elected a Democratic-Republican

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, Crawford Republican and Jacksonian

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 to the United States House of Representatives

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 in 1818, serving from 1819 to 1833. Their, Alexander served a chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia from 1825 to 1829. After declining renomination in 1832, he was a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention

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 from 1829 to 1830 and was again a member of the House of Delegates from 1845 to 1846. Alexander then retired from political life and engaged in managing his large estate until his death in Scotland Neck, North Carolina

Scotland Neck, North Carolina

Scotland Neck is a town in Halifax County, North Carolina, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 2,362. It is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

 on October 7, 1883. He was interred in Episcopal Church Cemetery in Scotland Neck.

External links

• Mark Alexander at Find A Grave
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