Adam Rankin Alexander

Jacksonian Representative of Tennessee's 9th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

November 1, 1781 (67 years old)

Birthday

November 1, 1848

Death

Served in the War of 1812 as a private and later as a Lieutenant and Quartermaster.
Worked as a surveyor before becoming the register of the land office for the tenth surveyors’ district in Madison County, Tennessee.
Held a position as a member of the court of Madison County in 1821.
Became a member of the Tennessee Senate in 1817.
Served as a U.S. Representative from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1827.
Was elected as a Jacksonian Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and as a Jacksonian to the succeeding Congress.
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the Twentieth Congress in 1827, losing his seat to Davy Crockett.
Represented Shelby County, Tennessee, at the Tennessee constitutional convention in 1834.
Served in the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1841 and 1843.
Died on November 1, 1848, in Marshall County, Mississippi, and is interred at Alexander-Pryor Family Cemetery, Laws Hill, Marshall County, Mississippi.
Was a slave owner.
Married Leah Reagan in 1805, with whom he had multiple children, including a grandson who became an educator, Eben Alexander.