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Alexander Barrow

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Alexander Barrow

Birth
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Death
29 Dec 1846 (aged 45)
Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Burial*
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA

* This is the original burial site

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US Senator. Elected as a Whig to represent Louisiana in the US Senate, he served from 1841 until his death in office. Barrow was born near Nashville, Tennessee, and attended the US Military Academy at West Point from 1816 to 1818. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1822 and moved to Louisiana. By the late 1820s he had abandoned legal practice to run a successful plantation, Afton Villa, in the West Feliciana Parish. As a Democratic member of the State House of Representatives (1833 to 1838) he fought to preserve slavery in the region, calling attempts to ban the practice "unconstitutional and impolitic". Barrow switched to the rising Whig Party for the 1840 elections and rode that political juggernaut to a seat in the Senate, during which time he served as Chairman of the Committees on Public Buildings and Militia. He died of a fever during a business trip to Baltimore and was interred in the public vault at Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC (there is no cenotaph for him there). His remains were reburied in the family cemetery at Afton Villa on October 30, 1847.
US Senator. Elected as a Whig to represent Louisiana in the US Senate, he served from 1841 until his death in office. Barrow was born near Nashville, Tennessee, and attended the US Military Academy at West Point from 1816 to 1818. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1822 and moved to Louisiana. By the late 1820s he had abandoned legal practice to run a successful plantation, Afton Villa, in the West Feliciana Parish. As a Democratic member of the State House of Representatives (1833 to 1838) he fought to preserve slavery in the region, calling attempts to ban the practice "unconstitutional and impolitic". Barrow switched to the rising Whig Party for the 1840 elections and rode that political juggernaut to a seat in the Senate, during which time he served as Chairman of the Committees on Public Buildings and Militia. He died of a fever during a business trip to Baltimore and was interred in the public vault at Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC (there is no cenotaph for him there). His remains were reburied in the family cemetery at Afton Villa on October 30, 1847.

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  • Originally Created by: Bobb Edwards
  • Added: Apr 13, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51038969/alexander-barrow: accessed ), memorial page for Alexander Barrow (27 Mar 1801–29 Dec 1846), Find a Grave Memorial ID 51038969, citing Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.