Alfred H. Powell | |
State1: | Virginia |
District1: | 17th |
Term Start1: | March 4, 1825 |
Term End1: | March 3, 1827 |
Predecessor1: | Jared Williams |
Successor1: | Robert Allen |
Office3: | Member of the Virginia Senate from Frederick, Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, and Jefferson Counties |
Term3: | 1812–1818 |
Predecessor3: | Lewis Wolfe |
Successor3: | Constituency abolished |
Birth Date: | 6 March 1781 |
Birth Place: | Loudoun County, Virginia |
Death Place: | Loudoun County, Virginia |
Party: | Democratic-Republican |
Alma Mater: | Princeton College |
Profession: | attorney |
Alfred Harrison Powell (March 6, 1781August 1, 1831) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.
Born in Loudoun County, Virginia, Powell was graduated from Princeton College.He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Winchester, Virginia in 1800.He also served as member of the state senate in 1812–1819.
Powell was elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1825 - March 3, 1827).He served as delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830.He died in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1831.[1]