| 词条 | Willis Alston |
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| name = Willis Alston | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1769 | birth_place = Halifax County, North Carolina, U.S. | death_date = April 10, 1837 | death_place = Halifax, North Carolina, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = Butterwood | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma mater = | employer = | occupation = Planter, politician | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = | children = Ariella Hawkins | parents = | relatives = James Boyd Hawkins (son-in-law) | box_width = }}Willis Alston (1769 – April 10, 1837) was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1825 and 1831. He was the nephew of Nathaniel Macon.[1] Early lifeWillis Alston was born in 1769 near Littleton, North Carolina, in Halifax County. CareerAlston engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons in 1790 and served for two years; in 1794 he was elected to a single term in the North Carolina Senate. In 1798, Alston was elected as a Federalist to the U.S. House, defeating incumbent Thomas Blount and two other candidates. Alston served from March 4, 1799, to March 4, 1815. Early in the Jefferson administration, Alston changed parties and became affiliated with the Republican Party. Local Federalists recruited former Gov. William R. Davie to challenge Alston in 1803, but Alston survived Davie's challenge. Alston chaired the House Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business during the 13th U.S. Congress. In the election of April 1813, Alston defeated Daniel Mason, the Peace candidate, with the smallest margin of his re-election campaigns (56%-44%), and Alston retired at the end of the term. He returned to the state House of Commons between 1820 and 1824, and then returned to Washington in 1825, elected as a Jacksonian Democrat. Serving three terms (March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1831), Alston chaired the Committee on Elections during the 21st Congress. He declined to seek re-election in 1830 and returned to agriculture. Relationship with John RandolphAlston and John Randolph of Roanoke had an intense dislike for each other, and once had a pitched fight in a Washington boarding house,[2] where heated words led to them throwing tableware at each other.{{sfn|A Biography of John Randolph, of Roanoke|page=42}} Six years later, they fought again in a stairwell at the House after Alston loudly referred to Randolph as a "puppy".{{sfn|A Biography of John Randolph, of Roanoke|page=42}} Randolph beat Alston bloody with his cane and the two had to be separated by other congressmen.{{sfn|A Biography of John Randolph, of Roanoke|pages=42-43}} Randolph was fined $20 for this breach of the peace.{{sfn|A Biography of John Randolph, of Roanoke|pages=42-43}} Death and legacyAlston died on April 10, 1837 in Halifax and is buried at his plantation home of Butterwood, near Littleton. His granddaughter, Missouri Alston Pleasants, established the Alston-Pleasants scholarship fund in his memory.[3] Notes1. ^Alston-Pleasants Post-Graduate Scholars Fund: Willis "Congress" Alston" biography 2. ^{{cite book |last=Sawyer |first=Lemuel |date=1844 |title=A Biography of John Randolph, of Roanoke |url=https://books.google.de/books?id=sLtcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA42 |location=New York, NY |publisher=Burgess, Stringer & Co. |page=42 |ref={{sfnRef|A Biography of John Randolph, of Roanoke}}}} 3. ^Alston-Pleasants Post-Graduate Scholars Fund: "Miss Missouri" External links{{CongBio|A000167}}
state=North Carolina| district=9 | before=Thomas Blount | after=Marmaduke Williams| years=1799–1803}}{{USRepSuccessionBox | state=North Carolina| district=2 | before=Matthew Locke | after=Joseph H. Bryan| years=1803–1815}}{{USRepSuccessionBox | state=North Carolina| district=2 | before=George Outlaw | after=John Branch| years=1825-1831}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Alston, Willis}} 14 : 1769 births|1837 deaths|People from Littleton, North Carolina|Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives|Members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina|North Carolina state senators|North Carolina Federalists|North Carolina Democratic-Republicans|North Carolina Jacksonians|Burials in North Carolina|Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives|Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives|Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives|19th-century American politicians |
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