Hugh Quincy Alexander, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hugh Quincy Alexander

American politician

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1911

Date of Death: 17-Sep-1989

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Hugh Quincy Alexander

  • Hugh Quincy Alexander (August 7, 1911 – September 17, 1989) was a Democratic U.S.
  • Representative from North Carolina between 1953 and 1963. Born on a farm near Glendon, North Carolina in Moore County in 1911, Alexander attended local public schools and then Duke University, graduating in 1932.
  • He then studied law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was admitted to the bar in 1937.
  • Practicing law in Kannapolis, North Carolina for several years, Alexander then served in the United States Navy during World War II from 1942 to 1946, including thirty-four months of duty overseas. In 1947 and 1949, Alexander served in the North Carolina House of Representatives.
  • He was a solicitor for the Cabarrus County Recorders Court from 1950 to 1952 and a state commander for the American Legion in 1951. In 1952, Alexander was elected to the 83rd U.S.
  • Congress, succeeding former Ways and Means chairman Robert Doughton.
  • He was reelected four times, but never was able to establish a secure foothold in his district due to a somewhat liberal voting record and growing Republican influence in the district. He was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v.
  • Board of Education. North Carolina lost a congressional district after the 1960 census, and the state legislature saw a chance to get rid of Charlotte-area congressman Charles R.
  • Jonas, then the only Republican in the North Carolina delegation.
  • In the process, however, they added several Republican-leaning areas to Alexander's district.
  • The plan backfired disastrously in the 1962 elections, in which Jonas won easily in his new district and Alexander lost by less than a percentage point to Republican furniture executive Jim Broyhill. After leaving Congress, he was chief counsel to the Senate Rules and Administration Committee from 1963 to 1976.
  • Alexander died in Kannapolis in 1989.

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