Alexander C. Davidson
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".
Alexander Caldwell Davidson (December 26, 1826 – November 6, 1897) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born near Charlotte, North Carolina, Davidson attended the public schools of Marengo County, Alabama, and graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa on July 11, 1848. He studied law in Mobile, Alabama, but never practiced. He engaged in cotton planting near Uniontown, Alabama. Davidson served as member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1880 and 1881 and in the Alabama Senate from 1882 through 1885.
Davidson was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth United States Congresses (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1889). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1888 and resumed agricultural pursuits.
He died at "Westwood," near Uniontown, Alabama on November 6, 1897. His body was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery of Davidson Memorial Church, Uniontown, Alabama.
References
External links
Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".
- Pages with script errors
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- 1826 births
- 1897 deaths
- Politicians from Charlotte, North Carolina
- Democratic Party members of the Alabama House of Representatives
- Democratic Party Alabama state senators
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama
- People from Marengo County, Alabama
- University of Alabama alumni
- People from Uniontown, Alabama
- 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
- 19th-century members of the Alabama Legislature