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ALEXANDER WILL- IAM, an American military officer; born in Mason co., Ky., July 9, 1808; graduated at Augusta College and began the practice of law in 1830 in Lexington, Mo.
He was three times elected to the Missouri Legislature. He served in the Mexican War, in which he made a brilliant record, capturing Chihuahua, after an unexpected encounter with an army of 4,000 men. He was one of the Peace Commissioners at the convention which met at Washington previous to the Civil War, which it vainly sought to avert. He died in Richmond, Mo., Aug. 8, 1887.