Barrow, Alexander b. March 27, 1801 d. December 29, 1846 US Senator. Elected as a Whig to represent Louisiana in the US Senate, he served from 1841 until his death in office. Barrow was born near Nashville, Tennessee, and attended the US Military Academy at West Point from 1816 to 1818. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1822 and moved to Louisiana. By the late 1820s he had abandoned legal practice to run a successful plantation, Afton Villa, in the West Feliciana Parish. As a Democratic member of the State House of Representatives...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards) Afton Villa Baptist Church Cemetery, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA
b. March 27, 1801 d. December 29, 1846