Alexander Billmeyer

{{Short description|American politician}}

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| name = Alexander Billmeyer

| image name =AlexanderBillmeyer.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date|1841|01|07}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1924|05|24|1841|01|07}}

| birth_place = Liberty Township, Pennsylvania

| state = Pennsylvania

| district = 17th

| term_start = November 4, 1902

| term_end = March 3, 1903

| preceded = Rufus K. Polk

| succeeded = Thaddeus M. Mahon

| party = Democratic

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Alexander Billmeyer (January 7, 1841 – May 24, 1924) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Alexander Billmeyer was born in Liberty Township, Pennsylvania. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits and the manufacture of lumber. He worked as director of a national bank in Washingtonville, Pennsylvania.

Billmeyer was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rufus K. Polk. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1902. He resumed agricultural pursuits in Montour County, Pennsylvania, and died near Washingtonville in 1924. Interment was in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Danville, Pennsylvania.

Sources

{{CongBio|B000465|Alexander Billmeyer}}

  • [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/billingsley-binger.html The Political Graveyard]

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| district=17

| before=Rufus K. Polk

| after=Thaddeus M. Mahon

| years=1902–1903

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Category:1841 births

Category:1924 deaths

Category:People from Montour County, Pennsylvania

Category:Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Category:20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives

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