Alexander Keith Marshall

Alexander Keith Marshall ( * February 11, 1808 in Versailles, Kentucky, † April 28, 1884 at East Hickman, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alexander Marshall attended the public schools of his home. He then settled in Nicholasville. After a subsequent study medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his 1844 was admitted as a doctor, he began to practice in Nicholasville in this profession. In 1849, Marshall was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Kentucky.

In the congressional elections of 1854 he was a candidate of the American Party in the eighth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John C. Breckinridge on March 4, 1855. Until March 3, 1857, he completed a term in Congress, which was shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Marshall moved for some time to Missouri. Later, however, he returned to Kentucky. There he began in Fayette County to work in agriculture. He died on 28 April 1884 in the vicinity of East Hickman.