Alexander Boarman

Education

He graduated in 1860 from the University of Kentucky at Lexington, Kentucky.

Career

He fought in the American Civil War for the Confederate States of America from 1861–1865. During the war he was promoted to the rank of captain. After the war, Boarman entered politics and was elected in 1866 as the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana.

In 1881, Boarman was named to the United States. district court by Republican United States. President James A. Garfield.

He held that position for the remaining thirty-five years of his life. Boarman was born in 1839 in Yazoo City, Mississippi.

He moved with his father, in 1845, to Louisiana. When the American Civil War began, Boarman joined the Confederacy.

His regiment became part of the Army of Northern Virginia.

After one year of fighting, Boarman was promoted to the rank of captain in the Confederate States Army, which he held until 1865. He served as the acting assistant Adjutant-General in the Battle of Winchester. His commanding office wrote of the engagement:

I would call particular attention to Captain

Alexander Boarman, acting assistant adjutant-general, and Lieutenant

Joseph Taylor, acting aide-de-camp, who behaved with much courage, gallantry, and efficiency, and greatly assisted me in the engagement. After the war ended, Boarman read law and became a lawyer, having been admitted to the bar in Louisiana in 1866, he was elected that same year as the mayor of Shreveport in the northwestern corner of the state.

From 1868 until 1872, Boarman was city attorney for Shreveport. In 1872, Boarman was nominated for the office of Secretary of State of Louisiana, but he lost the general election and then ran for Louisiana"s 4th congressional district"s vacant seat.

Boarman was unsuccessful for renomination for his United States. House seat.

Afterward he became a judge to the 10th Judicial Circuit of Louisiana in 1877, a position which he held until 1881. On May 18, 1881, Boarman was confirmed by the United States Senate for a new seat on the District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, created by 21 Statistics 507. lieutenant is unclear if he joined the Republican Party after the demise of the Liberal Republican or became a Democrat, as did many former Liberal Republicans at that time.

Boarman kept this position until he died in 1916, while he was visiting in Loon Lake in Franklin County in northern New New York

He is interred at Oakland Cemetery in Shreveport.

Achievements

• He won the election and served as the United States. Representative from 1872 to 1873.

Membership

As a member of the short-lived Liberal Republican Party, he served in Congress for one year.

Connections

Father:

I. A. Boarman

Mother:

Martha (Thompson) Boarman

Spouse:

Frances I. Capen