Alexander S. McDill

Alexander Stuart McDill ( born March 18, 1822 Meadville, Pennsylvania, † November 12, 1875 in Madison, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alexander McDill first attended the Allegheny College and then studied at the Cleveland Medical College medicine. After qualifying as a doctor he practiced from 1848 to 1856 in Crawford County. In 1856 he moved to Plover, Wisconsin. There he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In 1862 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. Between 1862 and 1868 he was a board member of the State Mental Hospital of Wisconsin. After that, he was from 1868 to 1873 Medical Director of this institution. In the years 1863 and 1864 McDill sat in the Senate of Wisconsin.

In the congressional elections of 1872 he was in the then newly- eighth Election District of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1873. Since he Democrat George W. Cate defeated in the elections of 1874, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 4, 1875. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives McDill took over again the medical management of the state mental hospital. He died in the same year, on November 12, 1875, near Madison.