Alexander Tackels
{{Short description|American politician}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| birth_date = {{circa|1791}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death date and given age| 1855| 04| 12| 63}}
| death_place =
| party = Democratic
| state_house1 = Michigan
| district1 = Macomb County
| term_start1 = November 2, 1835
| term_end1 = January 1, 1837
| term_start2 = January 7, 1839
| term_end2 = January 5, 1840
}}
Alexander Tackels, also Tackles or Tacles, ({{circa|1791}} – April 12, 1855) was an American politician who served two terms in the Michigan House of Representatives.
Biography
moved to Romeo, Michigan, in 1822, where he was a farmer.{{sfn|Bingham|1888|p=627}} By 1823, he was a widower.{{sfn|Leeson|1882|p=249}} He was elected a commissioner of Washington Township, Michigan, in 1827, and served as a justice of the peace in 1832, 1836, and 1838.{{sfn|Leeson|1882|pp=806–807}} He was supervisor of Ray Township, Michigan, from 1842 to 1843,{{sfn|Leeson|1882|p=859}} and was elected as an associate judge for Macomb County in 1844.{{sfn|Leeson|1882|p=313}}
He was elected as a Democrat to the Michigan House of Representatives in 1835 and served through 1836, and was elected again for a term in 1839.{{sfn|Bingham|1888|p=627}}
He died on April 12, 1855,{{sfn|Bingham|1888|p=627}} and is buried in Walled Lake Cemetery in Walled Lake, Michigan.{{harvnb|Enders-Jardine|2010}}
= Family =
Tackels and Polly Chandler had a son, Charles Tackels, who was born on November 22, 1827, and was later elected treasurer of Macomb County.{{sfn|Leeson|1882|p=605}}{{sfn|Michigan Historical Center|n.d.}}
Tackels married Susannah Thompson, the widow of Nathaniel Thompson,{{sfn|Biographical Publishing Company|1893|p=186}} on February 11, 1841, when he was 50 years old.{{sfn|FamilySearch|2018}}
Notes
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References
- {{Citation
| title = Alexander Tackles and Susannah Thompson, 11 Feb 1841, Macomb, Michigan, United States
| work = Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940
| date = May 11, 2018
| publisher = FamilySearch
| url = https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VN2L-Y11
| accessdate = 2018-12-12
| ref = {{harvid|FamilySearch|2018}}
}}
- {{Citation
| last = Bingham
| first = Stephen D.
| title = Early History of Michigan: With Biographies of State Officers, Members of Congress, Judges and Legislators
| publisher = Thorp & Godfrey
| place = Lansing
| date = 1888
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=GRMVAAAAYAAJ
| accessdate = 2018-12-12
}}
- {{Citation
| title = Death Certificate of Charles Tackles
| work = Seeking Michigan
| publisher = Michigan Historical Center
| url = http://seekingmichigan.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p129401coll7/id/610742
| accessdate = 2018-12-12
| ref = {{harvid|Michigan Historical Center|n.d.}}
}}
- {{Citation
| last = Eldredge
| first = Robert F.
| title = Past and Present of Macomb County, Michigan
| publisher = S. J. Clarke
| location = Chicago
| date = 1905
| isbn = 9780598724748
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pivOuSudfAYC
| accessdate = 2018-12-12
}}
- {{Citation
| last = Enders-Jardine
| first = Sandra
| title = Tombstone of Alexander Tackels
| publisher = Find A Grave
| date = March 30, 2010
| url = https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10863126/alexander-tackels#view-photo=26800764
| accessdate = 2018-12-12
}}
- {{Citation
| last = Leeson
| first = M. A.
| title = History of Macomb County, Michigan
| publisher = M. A. Leeson
| location = Chicago
| date = 1882
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=OT8XAQAAMAAJ
| accessdate = 2018-12-12
}}
- {{Citation
| title = Michigan Manual
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CEqIAAAAMAAJ
| edition = 1877–78
| date = 1877
| publisher = W. S. George & Co.
| place = Lansing
| ref = {{harvid|Michigan Manual|1877}}
| accessdate = 2018-12-12
}}
- {{Citation
| title = Portrait and Biographical Record of Muskegon and Ottawa Counties Michigan
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wj4VAAAAYAAJ
| publisher = Biographical Publishing Company
| place = Chicago
| date = 1893
| accessdate = 2018-12-12
| ref = {{harvid|Biographical Publishing Company|1893}}
}}
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Category:Democratic Party members of the Michigan House of Representatives
Category:19th-century members of the Michigan Legislature
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