Colonel Alexander Darymple Orr

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Colonel Alexander Darymple Orr

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Alexandria, Loudoun County, Virginia, Colonial America
Death: June 21, 1835 (73)
Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of John E. Orr and Elizabeth Monroe Orr
Husband of Elizabeth Caroline Orr and Mary Bland Orr
Father of Nancy Elizabeth Chenoweth and Alexander Orr
Brother of Alexander Orr; Ann Stewart; Benjamin Grayson Orr; Eleanor Grayson Peers; Dr. John Dalrymple Orr and 2 others

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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
Alexandria, Loudoun County, Virginia, Colonial America
1780
1780
1798
May 23, 1798
Wythe County, Virginia, United States
1835
June 21, 1835
Age 73
Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, United States
June 21, 1835
Age 73