Person:Adam Alexander (3)

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Rep. Adam Rankin Alexander, from TN
b.1 Nov 1781 Rockbridge, Virginia, United States
d.1 Nov 1848 Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1768
  1. Ebenezer Alexander1768 - 1835
  2. John AlexanderAbt 1769 - Bef 1829
  3. Margaret Paul Alexander1771 - 1847
  4. Susan Alexander1772 - 1815
  5. Abigail Alexander1774 -
  6. Rep. Adam Rankin Alexander, from TN1781 - 1848
  7. Mary AlexanderAbt 1783 - Abt 1795
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Rep. Adam Rankin Alexander, from TN1781 - 1848
  • W.  Leah Reagan1783 - 1863
m. 26 Mar 1805
  1. Ebenezer Alexander
  2. Mary Melissa Alexander
  3. William Reagan Alexander
  4. Jane Maria Alexander
  5. James Henry Alexander
  6. Margaret Ann Alexander
  7. Joseph Brown Porter Alexander
  8. Benjamin Newton Alexander
  9. Martha Hill Alexander
  10. Samuel Blair Houston Alexander
  11. John Bell Pinkney Alexander
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Rep. Adam Rankin Alexander, from TN1781 - 1848
  • W.  Dorothea _____
m.
  1. Betty Alexander
  2. Aaron Alexander
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Facts and Events
Name Rep. Adam Rankin Alexander, from TN
Gender Male
Birth[2] 1 Nov 1781 Rockbridge, Virginia, United States
Marriage 26 Mar 1805 Blount, Tennessee, United Statesto Leah Reagan
Marriage [no marriage ; she was an enslaved woman]
to Dorothea _____
Death[2] 1 Nov 1848 Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States
Burial[1] Chulahoma, Marshall, Mississippi, United StatesPryor Cemetery

Does proof exist for parents Family:Oliver Alexander and Margaret Paul (1)? Wikipedia states parents are Oliver Alexander and Mary Craig. Find A Grave states father is Col. Adam Alexander with no mother given. More research needed to determine which is correct.

References
  1. ↑ 8061501, in Find A Grave
    includes headstone phoeo, last accessed Jul 2025.

    US Congressman. He is remembered as an American politician during the 19th century. Before entering politics, he was a land surveyor. During the War of 1812, he served as a Lieutenant in Captain William Dooley's Company of the 2nd Regiment, West Tennessee Militia. As a Jeffersonian Republican, he was elected as a Representative from Tennessee to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1823 to 1827, serving first as an At-Large delegate from 1823 to 1825, then from the 9th District from 1825 to 1827. He changed his political party to Jacksonian. In 1826 he lost a re-election bid for the seat to frontiersman Davy Crockett. Previous to his Congressional term, he has served in the Tennessee State Senate in 1817, and after his Congressional term ended he served in the Tennessee State House of Representatives from 1841 to 1843.

    He married Leah Reagan Alexander and the couple had eleven children. He also fathered two children, Betty and Aaron Alexander, with an enslaved woman given the name Dorothea.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Biographies, in Govinfo.gov.

    ALEXANDER, Adam Rankin, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Rockbridge County, Va., November 1, 1781; surveyor; member of the Tennessee state senate, 1817; register of the land office for the tenth surveyors’ district, Madison County, Tenn.; member of the court of Madison County, Tenn., 1821; elected as a Jacksonian Republican to the Eighteenth and to the succeeding Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1827); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twentieth Congress in 1828; represented Shelby County, Tenn., at the Tennessee state abolitionist convention, 1834; member of the Tennessee state house of representatives, 1841 and 1843; died on November 1, 1848, in Jackson, Madison County, Tenn.; interment in Pryor Cemetery, Marshall County, Miss.

  3.   Adam Rankin Alexander, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
    includes sources, last accessed Jul 2025.

    Adam Rankin Alexander (November 1, 1781 – November 1, 1848) was an American slave owner and politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives. ...

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