US Congressman, US Senator. He was born one of eight children (Sarah Iverson was born in 1790, Samuel Iverson was born in 1793, William Iverson was born in 1795, Eliza Louisa Iverson was born in 1802, Benjamin Verling Iverson was born in 1807, James Harris Iverson was born in 1812, and Robert Iverson was born in 1814), in Liberty County, Georgia, to Robert V.J. Iverson and Rebecca Jones Iverson. He was educated locally, attended private schools, and then eventually attended the prestigious Princeton College (later Princeton University) in Princeton, New Jersey, where he later graduated from. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1822, and then commenced to practicing law in Clinton, Georgia. On December 3, 1822, he married Sarah Ann Caroline Holt in Hancock, Georgia, and the couple would have three children together (Martha Ann Iverson was born in 1823, Julia Maria Iverson was born in 1900, and Alfred Holt Iverson Jr. was born in 1829). He then entered politics and became a Member of the Georgia State House of Representatives and served in that position from 1827 to 1830. In 1830, his wife Sarah passed away at the age of twenty-seven. After his term in the Georgia State House of Representatives expired in 1830 he returned to Columbus, Georgia, and continued with his practice of law for a few years before entering politics again. On April 7, 1831, he married for the second time to Julia Frances Forsyth in Augusta, Georgia, and the couple would have two children together (Clara M. Callie Iverson was born in 1833, and John Forsyth Iverson was born in 1837). He also served as a Superior Court Judge in Georgia from 1835 to 1837, Member of the Georgia State Senate from 1843 to 1844, and as a Presidential Elector from Georgia on the Democratic Party ticket in 1844. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Georgia's 2nd District (Thirtieth Congress) in the United States House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849. After his term in the United States Congress expired on March 3, 1849, he was succeeded in office by United States Representative Marshall Johnson Wellborn. He then served another term as a Superior Court Judge in Georgia from 1850 to 1854 and was elected to the United States Senate shortly thereafter. He served in the United States Senate from March 4, 1855, to January 8, 1861. While serving in the United States Senate he was Chairman of the Committee on Claims representing the Thirty-Fifth Congress and the Thirty-Sixth Congress. He also repudiated popular sovereignty, and after the State of Georgia passed an ordinance of secession from the United States he withdrew from office. He made a defiant farewell speech in regards to Southerners who would never return to the Union that is still remembered to this day. He said, "short of a full and explicit recognition of the guarantee of the safety of their institution of domestic slavery." Following his very outgoing exit from the United States Senate, he again returned to Columbus, Georgia, to continue his practice of law. On November 9, 1861, his wife second wife Julia passed away after thirty years of marriage. He then relocated to East Macon, Georgia, where he bought a plantation and engaged in the agricultural business. On December 14, 1864, he married for the third and final time to Mary Townsend Polk in Bibb, Georgia, and the couple had no children. He continued with his law practice for a few more years until his retirement in 1868. He passed away at his home in East Macon, Georgia, on March 4, 1873, at the age of 74, and was buried in the Linwood Cemetery in that city. His third wife Mary survived him until she passed away on December 22, 1882, at the age of 60, in Milledgeville, Georgia. His son Alfred Iverson Jr. became a highly respected Confederate General who served in the American Civil War.