Alexander S. Wallace

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Alexander S. Wallace

Quill platform ID: p15483.

(December 30, 1810 — June 27, 1893) Wallace was a planter and politician. Alexander Wallace was born in South Carolina. He received limited schooling and was a planter in his native county until he became a member of the State House of Representatives in 1852. He served as State Representative from 1852 to 1855, 1858 to 1859, and 1865 to 1866. He successfully contested the election of William Simpson and succeeded him in the Forty-First Congress. Wallace was reelected as a Republican to the Forty-Second, Forty-Third, and Forty-Fourth Congresses, serving from May 27, 1870 to March 3, 1877. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000074]

Member of South Carolina Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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