Alexander Beaufort Meek
Encyclopedia
Alexander Beaufort Meek (July 17, 1814 (Columbia, South Carolina
) – November 30, 1865 (Columbus, Mississippi
) was an American
politician, lawyer, chess
player, writer and poet. He served as Alabama
's Attorney General
in 1836.
Columbia, South Carolina
Columbia is the state capital and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 129,272 according to the 2010 census. Columbia is the county seat of Richland County, but a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County. The city is the center of a metropolitan...
) – November 30, 1865 (Columbus, Mississippi
Columbus, Mississippi
Columbus is a city in Lowndes County, Mississippi, United States that lies above the Tombigbee River. It is approximately northeast of Jackson, north of Meridian, south of Tupelo, northwest of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and west of Birmingham, Alabama. The population was 25,944 at the 2000 census...
) was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
politician, lawyer, chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
player, writer and poet. He served as Alabama
Alabama
Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...
's Attorney General
Attorney General
In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.The term is used to refer to any person...
in 1836.
Works
- Americanism in literature. An oration before the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian societies of the University of Georgia, at Athens, August 8, 1844, Charleston, Burges and James, printers, 1844, 39 p.
- A digest of the laws of the state of Alabama, with John Gaston Aikin, 2nd edition. Tuscaloosa, Ala., D. Woodruff, 1836, 664p.
- The Red Eagle. A poem of the South, New York, D. Appleton & company, 1855, 108 p.
- Montgomery, Ala., The Paragon press, 1914
- Romantic passages in southwestern history; including orations, sketches and essays, New York, Mobile, S.H. Goetzel & co., 1857, 330p.
- Spartanburg, S.C. : Reprint Co., 1975
- Songs and poems of the South, New York, Mobile, S. H. Goetzel & co., 1857, 282 p.
- The South west: its history, character, and prospects, Tuscalossa, C. B. Baldwin, p’r., 1840, 40 p.