Alexander McKim was a U.S. Representative

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 from Maryland

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Biography

Born in Brandywine, Delaware

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, McKim pursued an academic course. He later moved to Baltimore, Maryland, and served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates

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 in 1778. He served in the Revolutionary War

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 as a member of the Baltimore Independent Cadets and of the First Baltimore Cavalry. He also fought under Lafayette

Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette

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 in the Virginia campaign of 1781. After the war, he served as member of the Maryland Senate from 1806 to 1810.

McKim was elected as a Democratic-Republican

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 to the Eleventh

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- House of Representatives :-Leadership:- Senate :* President: George Clinton * President pro tempore:** John Milledge ** Andrew Gregg , elected June 26, 1809** John Gaillard , elected February 28, 1810...

, Twelfth

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, and Thirteenth

13th United States Congress

- Senate :* President: Elbridge Gerry , until November 23, 1814, thereafter vacant.* President pro tempore: Joseph B. Varnum , December 6, 1813 – February 3, 1814** John Gaillard , elected November 25, 1814- House of Representatives :...

 Congresses, where he served from March 4, 1809 to March 3, 1815. After Congress, he engaged in mercantile pursuits. He also served as justice of court of quarter sessions, and was presiding judge of the Baltimore County Orphans' Court at the time of his death in Baltimore. He is interred in Greenmount Cemetery

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His nephew, Isaac McKim

William McCreery (Maryland)

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, also served as a congressman from Maryland.