Eben Alexander

Eben Alexander (March 9, 1851 – March 11, 1910) was an American scholar, educator, dean, and diplomat.

Life and career Alexander was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on March 9, 1851, to Judge Ebenezer Alexander and Margaret White McClung.

In 1893, President Grover Cleveland appointed him "Envoy Extraordinary, Minister Plenipotentiary, and Consul General to Greece, Roumania, and Servia" [sic]. an honor society at the University of North Carolina that was modeled on Yale's Skull and Bones. During the academic year 1909–1910, Alexander's health began to fail. He took a leave of absence in the spring of 1910, returned to Knoxville, and there died on March 11, 1910. The University of North Carolina's 1911 annual yearbook, Yackety Yack, was dedicated in his memory.

Family Eben Alexander's father, Ebenezer Alexander, was a prominent judge in Tennessee, and his grandfather, Adam Rankin Alexander, was the founder of Alexandria, Tennessee and a member of the House of Representatives from 1823 to 1827.

Alexander married Marion Howard-Smith on October 15, 1874,