Nathaniel Alexander (governor)

Nathaniel Alexander (March 5, 1756 – March 7, 1808)^[1] was the 13th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1805 to 1807.

Biography

Alexander was born near Concord, North Carolina (then Mecklenburg County, now Cabarrus County, North Carolina), the son of a local sheriff. He earned a medical degree from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1776 and was commissioned as a surgeon in the North Carolina Line in 1779. He served through the American Revolutionary War until 1782, and then practiced medicine for a time near Santee, South Carolina. He was distinguished as a politician but also as a physician, with Toner stating that he was a "physician of eminence in Mecklenburg."^[2]

Returning to his native North Carolina, Alexander was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons in 1797, to the North Carolina Senate in 1801, and to the United States House of Representatives in 1803.

On 25 November 1805, Alexander was elected governor by the North Carolina General Assembly and served two one-year terms in that office, declining to run for a third. Although a Democratic-Republican, he enjoyed support from the Federalists as well. As governor, he oversaw the resolution of a boundary dispute with Georgia, the expansion of the state's district courts, and the growth of the state's educational system. While governor, he was also president of The University of North Carolina Board of Trustees. Only a few months after stepping down as governor, Alexander died in Salisbury, North Carolina; he is buried in Old Settlers' Cemetery in Charlotte, North Carolina.^[1]

1 2 Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L., eds. (1920). "Alexander, Nathaniel". American Medical Biographies. Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.
↑ Toner, Joseph Meredith (1876). Medical Men of the Revolution. Philadelphia: Collins, Printer.

Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978, Robert Sobel and John Raimo, eds. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978. (ISBN 0-930466-00-4)

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by John Stanly	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 10th congressional district 1803-1805	Succeeded by Evan S. Alexander
Political offices
Preceded by James Turner	Governor of North Carolina 1805–1807	Succeeded by Benjamin Williams

Governors and Lieutenant Governors of North Carolina

Governors	Caswell Nash Burke A. Martin Caswell Johnston A. Martin Spaight Ashe Davie Williams Turner Alexander Williams Stone Smith Hawkins Miller Branch Franklin Holmes Burton Iredell Owen Stokes Swain Spaight Jr. Dudley Morehead Graham Manly Reid Winslow Bragg Ellis Clark Vance Holden Worth Holden Caldwell Brogden Vance Jarvis Scales Fowle Holt Carr Russell Aycock Glenn Kitchin Craig Bickett Morrison McLean Gardner Ehringhaus Hoey Broughton Cherry W. K. Scott Umstead Hodges Sanford Moore R. W. Scott Holshouser Hunt J. Martin Hunt Easley Perdue McCrory Cooper (Elect)

Lieutenant Governors	Caldwell Brogden Jarvis Robinson Stedman Holt Doughton Reynolds Turner Winston Newland Daughtridge O. Gardner Cooper Long Fountain Graham Horton Harris Ballentine Taylor, Sr. Hodges Barnhardt Philpott Scott Taylor Jr. Hunt Green Jordan J. Gardner Wicker Perdue Dalton Forest

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 174497867 LCCN: no2011125264 US Congress: A000100

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