Rep. Alexander Robinson Boteler

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Alexander Robinson Boteler (May 16, 1815 – May 8, 1892) was a nineteenth-century planter turned businessman, as well as artist, writer, lawyer, Confederate officer, philanthropist and politician from Shepherdstown in what was initially Virginia and became West Virginia in the American Civil War.

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Alexander Robinson Boteler (May 16, 1815 – May 8, 1892) was a nineteenth century politician and clerk from Virginia.

Biography

Born in Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West Virginia), Boteler graduated from Princeton College in 1835 and engaged in agriculture and literary pursuits. He was elected an Oppositionist to the United State House of Representatives in 1858, serving from 1859 to 1861. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and was a member of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's staff. Boteler was chosen by the Virginia Convention to be a representative to the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861 and was later elected a Democrat to the Confederate States House of Representatives in 1861, serving from 1862 to 1864. After the war, he was appointed a member of the Centennial Commission in 1876 and was later appointed a member of the Tariff Commission by President Chester A. Arthur and was made a pardon clerk in the Department of Justice by Attorney General Benjamin H. Brewster. Boteler died in Shepherdstown, West Virginia on May 8, 1892 and was interred there at Elmwood Cemetery with his wife Helen Stockon Boteler.