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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaAlexander Kerr CRAIG
(1828-1892)
CRAIG, Alexander Kerr, a
Representative from Pennsylvania; born near Claysville, Buffalo
Township, Washington County, Pa., February 21, 1828; attended the
common schools and was educated by a private tutor; became a
teacher at the age of sixteen; began the study of law, but devoted
himself to agricultural pursuits; taught school in winter months
and subsequently became principal of the Claysville public schools;
enlisted in February 1865 in the Eighty-seventh Regiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; resumed agricultural pursuits near
Claysville; school director and justice of the peace; successfully
contested as a Democrat the election of Andrew Stewart to the
Fifty-second Congress and served from February 26, 1892, until his
death in Claysville, Pa., July 29, 1892; interment in Claysville
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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