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Alexander Kelly McClure, son of Alexander and Isabella (Anderson) McClure, was born on January 9, 1828 in Sherman's Valley, Perry County, Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent. He was reared on his father's farm, educated at home.
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Alexander Kelly McClure, son of Alexander and Isabella (Anderson) McClure, was born on January 9, 1828 in Sherman's Valley, Perry County, Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent. He was reared on his father's farm, educated at home.
At the age of fifteen was apprenticed to a tanner. At the same time he learned the printing trade in the office of the Perry County Freeman, where he absorbed Whig political principles.
In the late forties, McClure edited and published the Juniata Sentinel at Mifflintown. In 1849, he was commissioned colonel on the staff of Governor Johnson, and in the following year he was appointed deputy United States marshal for Juniata County. In 1852, he became part owner of the Franklin Repository, published in Chambersburg, and shortly afterward he secured full control. Under his direction it became one of the influential newspapers in the state. After failing of election as the Whig candidate for auditor-general in 1853, he turned his attention to law. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 but continued to devote most of his time to the Repository. When it became evident that two-thirds of the delegates from the other states were in favor of William H. Seward, Curtin and McClure succeeded in switching the Pennsylvania vote from Cameron to Lincoln. McClure was elected chairman of the Republican state committee and in this office perfected a complete political organization in every city, county, township, and precinct in the state. Following a campaign of unprecedented aggressiveness Andrew G. Curtin was elected governor and later Lincoln swept the state by a large majority. After a term in the state House of Representatives in 1858, McClure was elected in 1859 to the state Senate. There he was spokesman for Pennsylvania's war governor, and as chairman of the Senate committee on military affairs he was active in support of both state and federal governments for the preservation of the Union.
In 1865, he was again in the House of Representatives. At the request of President Lincoln, he accepted a commission as assistant adjutant-general of the army and placed seventeen regiments in the field. In 1868 he became a resident of Philadelphia. He opened a law office and immediately became active in civic affairs. He was a delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention that nominated General Grant in 1868. Differing with the dominant Republican leadership in 1872, he became chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation to the Liberal Republican national convention which nominated Horace Greeley for the presidency. He gave further evidence of political independence by running as a Citizen's candidate, with Democratic indorsement, for the state Senate in the West Philadelphia district, and after a bitter contest was sworn in. In 1874, he was the Citizen's-Democratic candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, making his canvass upon charges of gross corruption in the city administration, but he was defeated. In response to a demand for a newspaper to support the independent forces in Philadelphia, McClure in conjunction with Frank McLaughin on March 13, 1875, established the Times which became a well-known newspaper in the country.
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McClure took particular interest in the organization of the Republican party and was a member of the state convention that met in Pittsburgh in the summer of 1855. In 1860 he was a member of the Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican National Convention which was committed to Simon Cameron for the presidency.
McClure was a man of impressive appearance and was in demand as a speaker on public occasions.
McClure was twice married, first to Matilda S. Gray, on February 10, 1852; and second to Cora M. Gratz, on March 19, 1879.