Alexander B. Montgomery

Alexander Brooks Montgomery ( born December 11, 1837 Hardin County, Kentucky, † December 27, 1910 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1895 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alexander Montgomery attended both public and private schools and then to 1859 the Georgetown College. In the following years he worked in Hardin County in agriculture. After studying law at the Louisville Law School and was admitted as an attorney of his 1870 he began to practice in this profession in Elizabethtown. Between 1870 and 1874, Montgomery was district judge in Hardin County. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In the years 1877-1881 he was a member of the Senate from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1886, he was in the fourth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas A. Robertson on March 4, 1887. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 four related legislative periods. Since 1891 he was chairman of the Committee to control expenditure of the War Department.

For the 1894 elections, he was defeated by Republican John W. Lewis. Between 1895 and 1898 Montgomery was a member of the Dawes Indian Commission; then he again worked as a lawyer. He died on December 27, 1910 in Elizabethtown.