Bio: T. Alexander, Catahoula & Caddo Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker


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T. Alexander is a lawyer of note in Shreveport and vicinity, and, although a native of the State of Louisiana, he was born in Catahoula 
Parish to Dr. John S. Alexander, who was born and educated on "Blue Grass" soil.  When a young man he entered the Louisville 
(Ky.) Medical 
College, from which he afterward graduated, and up to the time of his death, which occurred in 18/55 of yellow fever, 
he was an active medical practitioner.  The immediate subject of this biography received his education in the State University of Louisiana, 
and, being a young man of excellent attainments and of an ambitious and determined disposition, he made rapid progress in hisstudies, 
and was liked and admired by his instructors as well as fellow students.  Having a predilection for the practice of law, he made that his study
for some time, and after a thorough preparation and upon graduating from the law department of the State University of Louisiana, he was 
admitted to the bar at New Orleans.  He subsequently came to Shreveport, and in the practice of his profession he is now the junior 
member of the firm of  Blanchard & Alexander, a name that is synonymous with legal knowledge and sagacity.  Mr. Alexander has
displayed much ability in the practice of his chosen calling, and has won the reputation of being a brilliant, forcible and convincing speaker.