Historical records matching Colonel Alexander Darymple Orr
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About Colonel Alexander Darymple Orr
Alexander was the son of John Orr and Susan Grayson.
From the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress: ORR, Alexander Dalrymple, (nephew of William Grayson), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Alexandria, Loudoun County, Va., November 6, 1761; attended the local schools; about 1782 moved to Bourbon County, Ky. (then a part of Virginia), thence to a plantation on the Ohio River below Maysville, Mason County, Ky., and engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the Virginia house of delegates in 1790; elected to the state senate in 1792 and served until his election to Congress; upon the admission of Kentucky as a state into the Union was elected as an Anti-Administration candidate to the Second and Third Congresses and reelected as a Republican to the Fourth Congress and served from November 8, 1792, to March 3, 1797; resumed agricultural pursuits in Mason County near Maysville; died in Paris, Bourbon County, Ky., June 21, 1835; interment in Paris Cemetery.
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Colonel Alexander Darymple Orr's Timeline
1761 |
November 6, 1761
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Alexandria, Loudoun County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1780 |
1780
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1798 |
May 23, 1798
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Wythe County, Virginia, United States
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1835 |
June 21, 1835
Age 73
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Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, United States
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June 21, 1835
Age 73
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