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Alexander, James Evans

Alexander, James Evans

Posted on March 6, 2019October 23, 2023 by ML Williams

JAMES EVANS ALEXANDER | Alexander, James Evans, lawyer, statesman, orange and fruit grower, was born December 17, 1860, near Covington, Tenn. He was educated at the Tipton male high school; and at the Lebanon law School of Cumberland University. He has been mayor of Enterprise, Florida; post office inspector under President Cleveland’s first administration; and for many years private secretary to United States Senator Wilkinson Call of Florida. In 1892-93 and 1908-09 he served as a representative in the Florida state legislature. In 1908 he was a delegate at large to the democratic national convention. He is a prominent attorney-at-law of De Land, Fla.; and a successful orange and fruit grower.

[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909]


Family

Great Grandmother: Sarah Twyman Sanford (1773-1855)

Maternal Grandfather: Robert Walker Sanford (1802-1861)
Maternal Grandmother: Frances Downs Sanford (1809-1878)

Father: James Rankin Alexander (1828-1873)
Mother: Frances Small Sanford Alexander (1839-1923)

Spouse: Maud Kepler Alexander Lyman Truitt (1860-1941)

Siblings:

  • James E Alexander (b. 1861)
  • William B Alexander (1862-1883)
  • Annie Lee Alexander Stringfellow (1866-1903)
  • Frances Small Alexander Stringfellow (1868-1910)

James Evans Alexander Family Photos

James E Alexander

James Rankin Alexander, Father

Frances Sanford Alexander, Mother

Frances Sanford Alexander and brother Dr. Robert Sanford

J. E. Alexander – Headstone in Oakdale Cemetery – DeLand, Volusia County, Florida

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