Alexander McDowell

Alexander McDowell ( born March 4, 1845 in Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania, † September 30, 1913 in Sharon, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1895 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alexander McDowell attended the common schools and then completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade. He studied law, but without ever working as a lawyer. Despite his youth, he served during the Civil War in the Union Army, where he rose to the brevet Major. Then he gave up in 1870 the newspaper out Venango Citizen. Then he moved to Sharon in Mercer County, where he worked in the banking industry. Between 1880 and 1913 he was treasurer and chairman of the local school committee. From 1880 to 1909, he served there as city treasurer.

Politically, McDowell member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1892 he was in the then newly established state-wide 29 electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1893. Since he resigned in 1894 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1895.

Between March 4, 1895, the March 3, 1911 McDowell held the post of Clerk in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the years 1900, 1904 and 1908, he participated as a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions, to which William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft were finally nominated as a presidential candidate. After the end of his time as a clerk, he again worked in the banking industry. Alexander McDowell died on September 30, 1913 in Sharon, where he was also buried.