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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaBOTELER, Alexander Robinson
(1815—1892)
BOTELER, Alexander Robinson, a Representative from Virginia; born in Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Va. (now West Virginia), May 16, 1815; was graduated from Princeton College in 1835; engaged in agriculture and literary pursuits; elected as the candidate of the Opposition Party to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); during the Civil War entered the Confederate Army and was a member of Stonewall Jackson’s staff; chosen by the State convention a Representative from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress November 19, 1861; elected from Virginia to the Confederate Congress, serving from February 1862 to February 1864; appointed a member of the Centennial Commission in 1876; appointed a member of the Tariff Commission by President Arthur and subsequently made pardon clerk in the Department of Justice by Attorney General Brewster; died in Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, W.Va., May 8, 1892; interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
Boteler, Alexander Robinson. Speech of Hon. A.R. Boteler, of Virginia, on the organization of the House. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 25, 1860
. [Washington]: Printed by L. Towers, [1860].
———. Speech of Hon. Alexander R. Boteler, of Virginia, on the organization of the House
. Washington, D.C.: W.H. Moore, printer, 1860.
Rives, William C. (William Cabell). Letter of Hon. Wm. C. Rives, to Mr. Boteler, of the House of Representatives, on the national crisis
. [United States: N.p., 1860].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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