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Nathaniel Alexander (March 5, 1756 – March 7, 1808) was an American physician and politician who served as the 13thGovernor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1805 to 1807.[1]
Alexander was born in 1756, in what was at the time known as Anson County in the Province of North Carolina (his birthplace is located near the modern city of Concord). He was the son of a local sheriff. He earned a bachelor's degree from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1776 and was commissioned as a surgeon in the North Carolina Line in 1779. He served through the American Revolutionary War until 1782, and then practiced medicine for a time near Santee, South Carolina. He was distinguished as a politician but also as a physician, with Toner stating that he was a "physician of eminence in Mecklenburg."[2]
He married a daughter of a Colonel Thomas Polk, but the couple was apparently childless.[3]
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^ abKelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L. (eds.). "Alexander, Nathaniel" . American Medical Biographies. Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.
^Toner, Joseph Meredith (1876). Medical Men of the Revolution. Philadelphia: Collins, Printer.
^"The history of Mecklenburg County from 1740 to 1900" (PDF). Retrieved January 14, 2022.
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Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789–1978, Robert Sobel and John Raimo, eds. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978. (ISBN0-930466-00-4)
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