Alexander Beaufort Meek

Alexander Beaufort Meek (July 17, 1814 (Columbia, South Carolina) – November 1, 1865 (Columbus, Mississippi) was an American politician, lawyer, judge, chess player, writer and poet. He served as Alabama's Attorney General in 1836.

Alexander Beaufort Meek

Works
  • An Oration Delivered before the Society of the Alumni of the University of Alabama at its First Anniversary, December 17, 1836
  • The South West: Its History, Character, and Prospects: A Discourse for the Eighth Anniversary of the Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama, December 7, 1839, Tuscalossa, C. B. Baldwin, Press, 1840, 40 p.
  • Americanism in Literature. An Oration before the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian Societies of the University of Georgia, at Athens, August 8, 1844, Charleston, Burges and James, printers, 1844, 39 p.
  • The Red Eagle: A Poem of the South, New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1855, 108 p.
    • Montgomery, Ala., The Paragon Press, 1914
  • Romantic Passages in Southwestern History: Including Orations, Sketches, and Essays, New York, Mobile, S.H. Goetzel & Company, 1857, 330 p.
    • Spartanburg, S.C. : Reprint Company, 1975
  • Songs and Poems of the South, New York, Mobile, S. H. Goetzel & Company, 1857, 282 p.

References
  • Spinrad, Jeremy P. (October 2006), Judge Meek (PDF), ChessCafe.com
Legal offices
Preceded by
Peter Martin		 Attorney General of Alabama
1836		 Succeeded by
John D. Phelan


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