Boteler, Alexander Robinson

Life Span
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    Full name
    Alexander Robinson Boteler
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    Family
    Henry Boteler (father), Helen Stockton Boteler (wife)
    Education
    Princeton (College of New Jersey)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Farmer or Planter
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Presbyterian
    Political Parties
    Whig
    American Party (Know Nothings or Nativists)
    Government
    US House of Representatives
    Military
    Confederate Army

    Alexander Robinson Boteler (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    BOTELER, Alexander Robinson, a Representative from Virginia; born in Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Va. (now West Virginia), May 16, 1815; was graduated from Princeton College in 1835; engaged in agriculture and literary pursuits; elected as the candidate of the Opposition Party to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); during the Civil War entered the Confederate Army and was a member of Stonewall Jackson’s staff; chosen by the State convention a Representative from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress November 19, 1861; elected from Virginia to the Confederate Congress, serving from February 1862 to February 1864; appointed a member of the Centennial Commission in 1876; appointed a member of the Tariff Commission by President Arthur and subsequently made pardon clerk in the Department of Justice by Attorney General Brewster; died in Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, W.Va., May 8, 1892; interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
    “Boteler, Alexander Robinson,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000653.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    Boteler, Alexander. "Recollections of the John Brown Raid by a Virginian Who Witnessed the Fight." Century Magazine 26 (1883): 399-411. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Boteler, Alexander Robinson," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5143.