Robert Alexander (Maryland)

Robert Alexander ( 1740 in Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland, † November 20, 1805 in London, England ) was an American plantation owner, lawyer and politician.

Career

Alexander was born in 1740 on the family property in Cecil County, now part of Elkton, Maryland. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and began to practice in Baltimore on. Later he decided to pursue a political career. He was three times 1774, 1775 and 1776, member of the Provincial Congress from Maryland. During this time he was also Secretary to the Baltimore Committee of Observation and 1775 Member of the Council of Safety. On June 6, 1776, he was appointed First Lieutenant in the militia of Baltimore. He was also a member of the Continental Congress in the same year. After the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence (English Declaration of Independence ), he fled from Maryland to the British fleet. He joined the Associated Loyalists of America and sailed to London in 1782, where he remained the rest of his life. The decisive reasons for his flight to England were well on the one hand, that he was convicted in 1780 for treason and confiscated his property, and on the other hand, that the British troops were about to lose the war.