Alexander Duncan | |
State: | Ohio |
District: | first |
Term Start: | March 4, 1837 |
Term End: | March 3, 1841 |
Preceded: | Bellamy Storer |
Succeeded: | Nathanael G. Pendleton |
Term Start2: | March 4, 1843 |
Term End2: | March 3, 1845 |
Preceded2: | Nathanael G. Pendleton |
Succeeded2: | James J. Faran |
State House3: | Ohio |
District3: | Hamilton County |
Term Start3: | December 1, 1828 |
Term End3: | December 5, 1830 |
Preceded3: | Elijah Hayward John C. Short Peter Bell |
Succeeded3: | Samuel Reese Daniel Stone Leonard Armstrong |
Alongside3: | Elijah Hayward Robert Todd Lytle Samuel Reese David T. Disney George Graham |
Term Start4: | December 5, 1831 |
Term End4: | December 2, 1832 |
Preceded4: | Samuel Reese Daniel Stone Leonard Armstrong |
Succeeded4: | Adam N. Riddle David T. Disney Samuel Bond Israel Brown |
Alongside4: | Daniel H. Hawes David T. Disney John Burgoyne |
State Senate5: | Ohio |
District5: | Hamilton County |
Term Start5: | December 3, 1832 |
Term End5: | November 30, 1834 |
Preceded5: | Jonathan Cilley Samuel R. Miller |
Succeeded5: | Henry Morse David T. Disney |
Alongside5: | David T. Disney Samuel R. Miller |
Party: | Democratic |
Birth Date: | 1788 |
Death Date: | March 23, 1853 |
Birth Place: | Bottle Hill, New Jersey |
Death Place: | Madisonville, Cincinnati, Ohio |
Restingplace: | Laurel Cemetery |
Alexander Duncan (1788 – March 23, 1853) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for four terms from 1837 to 1845.
Born in Bottle Hill (now Madison), Morris County, New Jersey, Duncan studied and practiced medicine. He moved to Ohio and settled in Cincinnati. He served as member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1828, 1829, 1831, and 1832. He served in the Ohio Senate 1832–1834.
Duncan was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress but came back to win a seat in the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845). He did not run in 1844 for reelection to the Twenty-ninth Congress but instead resumed the practice of his profession.
He died in Madisonville (now a part of Cincinnati), Hamilton County, Ohio, March 23, 1853, and is interred in Laurel Cemetery.