Alexander Duncan

Alexander Duncan (1788 – March 23, 1853) was a 19th-century American medical doctor who served as a U.S. representative from Ohio for four terms from 1837 to 1845.

Biography Born in Bottle Hill (now Madison), Morris County, New Jersey, Duncan studied and practiced medicine. He moved to Ohio and settled in Cincinnati.

State legislature He served as member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1828, 1829, 1831 and 1832. He then served in the Ohio Senate from 1832 to 1834.

Congress Duncan was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress but came back to win a seat in the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845).

He did not run in 1844 for reelection to the Twenty-ninth Congress but instead resumed the practice of his profession.

Death and burial He died in Madisonville (now a part of Cincinnati), Hamilton County, Ohio, March 23, 1853, and is interred in Laurel Cemetery.