Английская Википедия:Alexander Keith McClung
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Alexander Keith McClung (14 June 1811 – 23 March 1855) was an attorney from Vicksburg, Mississippi, who briefly served as US chargé d'affaires to Bolivia in President Zachary Taylor's administration.[1] An "inveterate Southern duelist"[2] nicknamed "The Black Knight of the South", he killed as many as fourteen men in duels during his life.[3] He was also a poet. James H. Street used him as the model for the character Keith Alexander in his novel Tap Roots (1942).
McClung was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, and was the nephew of United States Chief Justice John Marshall. He served as lieutenant colonel of the 1st Mississippi Regiment during the Mexican–American War. He was widely despised for his ill manners, bad credit, gambling, and drunkenness. [4] He committed suicide in the Eagle Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi. McClung was interred at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, Mississippi.[5]
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- Alexander Keith McClung entry at The Political Graveyard
- Шаблон:Findagrave (born 1811) and also here (born 1809)
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Roger Roots, When Lawyers Were Serial Killers: Nineteenth Century Visions of Good Moral Character, 22 N. ILL. U. L. REV. 19 (2001).
- ↑ WILLIAM 0. STEVENS, PISTOLS AT TEN PACES: THE STORY OF THE CODE OF HONOR IN AMERICA 127 (1940). Among McClung's victims were seven members of one family.
- ↑ Cedar Hill Cemetery tombstone database (McClung, Col. Alexander K.) Шаблон:Webarchive Retrieved 2015-08-21.
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