Alexander W. Gregg

Alexander White Gregg ( born January 31, 1855 in Centerville, Texas, † April 30, 1919 in Palestine, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1919 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alexander Gregg attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1874, the King College in Bristol (Tennessee). After a subsequent law studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his 1878 was admitted to the bar he began in Palestine to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1886 and 1888 he was a member of the Senate of Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1902, Gregg was in the seventh election district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Robert Lee Henry took on 4 March 1903 the moved to the eleventh district. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1919 eight legislatures. In this time of the First World War fell. In addition, in 1913 the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

1918 renounced Alexander Gregg on another candidacy. He died just weeks after his resignation from the U.S. House of Representatives on April 30, 1919 in Palestine.