Taliaferro Alexander, Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




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Taliaferro Alexander was the veteran and dean of the legal profession 

in Shreveport, where he practiced law steadily for half a century, 

and practically all the time occupied one office building in Market 

Street.  In the law he found satisfaction for powers and abilities of 

exceptional strength, and practically never deviated from the practice 

to engage in politics.



Taliaferro Alexander was born in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, in 1846.  

His mother was a daughter of Judge James T. Taliaferro, a distinguished 

name in the Louisiana judiciary, who from 1868 to 1876 served as a 

judge of the State Supreme Court.



Taliaferro Alexander was liberally educated, attending Louisiana 

State and Tulane Universities, and after being admitted to the bar, 

located in Shreveport, where he practiced over fifty years.  He was 

associated with the late Newton C. Blanchard and with John D Wilkinson, 

and in his later years with his son in the partnership or Alexander 

and Alexander Taliaferro Alexander for many years was a member of the 

examining board for the bar in his section of the state, and many 

lawyers practicing today received certificates on which his name 

appeared as an examiner.  Through the steady practice of law for many 

years he accumulated a large amount of property and showed consummate 

judgment in handling his business affairs.  The only public Office he 

ever held was as delegate for the Louisiana State Constitutional 

Convention of 1898.



Mr. Alexander was seventy-eight years of age When he died at his home, 

853 Cotton Street, Shreveport, June S, 1924.  He was a member of St. 

Mark's Episcopal Church.  The wife of Taliaferro Alexander was Miss 

Laura Lister, of Greenwood.  She survived him and has long had an 

active part in the Social and civic organizations of Shreveport.



Of a family of six children the only survivor is Albert L. Alexander.  

Another son, Percy T. Alexander, died in 1912, after finishing his 

education in Tulane University.  Albert L. Alexander graduated from 

the law department of the University of Virginia with the degree 

Bachelor of Laws in 1907, and for seventeen years has been in law 

practice at Shreveport.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 131, by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.