Alexander D. Orr

Alexander Dalrymple Orr ( born November 6, 1761 Alexandria, Virginia; † June 21, 1835 in Paris, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1792 and 1797 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alexander Orr was a nephew of William Grayson (1740-1790), who was 1789-1790 U.S. Senator for the State of Virginia. He attended the common schools. Around the year 1782, he moved to the Bourbon County in present-day state of Kentucky, which was still part of Virginia at that time. He then moved to a plantation on the Ohio River near Maysville in Mason County, where he worked in agriculture. He also began a political career.

In 1790 he was elected to the House of Representatives of Virginia. In 1792 he was a member of the State Senate. After the founding of Kentucky, he was in 1792 elected in the first district of the State Council, meeting in the then still in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives. There he entered on November 8, 1792, from his new mandate. After two re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1797 Congress. Politically, he was a member of, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Alexander Orr withdrew from politics. He devoted himself in the following decades back agriculture in Mason County and died on 21 June 1835 in Paris, where he was also buried.