Preceded by Thomas M. Nelson Preceded by Edward Lloyd Resting place Scotland Neck Succeeded by James Gholson Role Lawyer | Preceded by William McCoy Name Mark Alexander Succeeded by Joseph Johnson Succeeded by Gershom Powers | |
Died October 7, 1883, Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States Alma mater University of North Carolina System | ||
Other political affiliations Jacksonian democracy | ||
Mark Alexander (February 7, 1792 – October 7, 1883) was a nineteenth-century lawyer and political figure from Virginia.
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Born on a plantation near Boydton, Virginia, Alexander attended the public schools as a child and graduated from the University of North Carolina 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 from 1815 to 1819 before he was elected a Democratic-Republican, Crawford Republican and Jacksonian to the United States House of Representatives in 1818, serving from 1819 to 1833. There, Alexander served as 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 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 on October 7, 1883. He was interred in Episcopal Church Cemetery in Scotland Neck.