Alexander Beaufort Meek

Alexander Beaufort Meek (July 17, 1814 (Columbia, South Carolina) – November 1, 1865 (Columbus, Mississippi) was an American politician, lawyer, judge, and chess player. He also was a writer of historical and literary essays, and poetry. He served as Alabama Attorney General in 1836. He played several chess games against Paul Morphy.

Works An Oration Delivered before the Society of the Alumni of the University of Alabama at its First Anniversary, December 17, 1836 The South West: Its History, Character, and Prospects: A Discourse for the Eighth Anniversary of the Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama, December 7, 1839, Tuscaloosa, C. B. Baldwin, Press, 1840, 40 p. Americanism in Literature. An Oration before the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian Societies of the University of Georgia, at Athens, August 8, 1844, Charleston, Burges and James, printers, 1844, 39 p. The Red Eagle: A Poem of the South, New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1855, 108 p. Montgomery, Ala., The Paragon Press, 1914 Romantic Passages in Southwestern History: Including Orations, Sketches, and Essays, New York, Mobile, S.H. Goetzel & Company, 1857, 330 p. Spartanburg, S.C. : Reprint Company, 1975 Songs and Poems of the South, New York Mobile, Alabama: S. H. Goetzel & Company, 1857, 282 p.