Alexander C. Davidson Explained

State1:Alabama
District1:4th
Term Start1:March 4, 1885
Term End1:March 3, 1889
Predecessor1:George H. Craig
Successor1:Louis W. Turpin
Office2:Member of the Alabama Senate
Term2:1882-1885
Office3:Member of the Alabama House of Representatives
Term3:1880-1881
Birth Name:Alexander Caldwell Davidson
Birth Date:26 December 1826
Birth Place:Charlotte, North Carolina
Death Place:Uniontown, Alabama
Party:Democratic

Alexander Caldwell Davidson (December 26, 1826 – November 6, 1897) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.

Born near Charlotte, North Carolina, Davidson attended the public schools of Marengo County, Alabama, and graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa on July 11, 1848. He studied law in Mobile, Alabama, but never practiced. He engaged in cotton planting near Uniontown, Alabama. Davidson served as member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1880 and 1881 and in the Alabama Senate from 1882 through 1885.

Davidson was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth United States Congresses (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1889). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1888 and resumed agricultural pursuits.

He died at "Westwood," near Uniontown, Alabama on November 6, 1897. His body was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery of Davidson Memorial Church, Uniontown, Alabama.