| 词条 | Alexander Keith McClung |
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| name = Alexander McClung | image = File:Alexander McClung.png | caption = McClung, before 1855 | order = 2nd | ambassador_from = United States | country = Bolivia | term_start = 1849 | term_end = 1851 | predecessor = John Appleton | successor = Horace H. Miller | president = Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore | birth_date = {{Birth-date|1811}} | birth_place = Virginia | death_date = {{BirthDeathAge ||1811|||1855|03|23}} | death_place = Mississippi | restingplace = | restingplacecoordinates = | birthname = | citizenship = United States | nationality = American | party = | otherparty = | spouse = | relations = John Marshall (uncle) | children = | parents = | residence = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | religion = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = | blank1 = | data1 = | blank2 = | data2 = | blank3 = | data3 = | blank4 = | data4 = | blank5 = | data5 = | allegiance = {{Flag|United States|1846}} | branch = {{Army|United States}} | serviceyears = 1846–48 | rank = Lieutenant colonel | unit = | commands = | battles = Mexican-American War | awards = }} Alexander Keith McClung (14 June 1811 – 23 March 1855) briefly served as US chargé d'affaires to Bolivia in President Zachary Taylor's administration.[1] An "inveterate Southern duelist"[2] nicknamed "The Black Knight of the South", he was also a poet. James H. Street used him as the model for the character Keith Alexander in his novel Tap Roots (1942). McClung was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, and was the nephew of John Marshall. He served as lieutenant colonel of the 1st Mississippi Regiment during the Mexican–American War. He committed suicide in the Eagle Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi. McClung was interred at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, Mississippi.[3] Notes1. ^{{cite web |url= https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/mcclung-alexander-keith |title= Alexander Keith McClung (1812–1855) |publisher= Office of the Historian |location= U.S. Department of State |accessdate= 3 June 2012}} 2. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/dueling_full_1.html?c=y&page=4 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111218152141/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/dueling_full_1.html?c=y&page=4 |dead-url= yes |archive-date= 2011-12-18 |title= Bang! Bang! You're Dead |author= Holland, Barbara |date= October 1997 |work= Smithsonian magazine |publisher= The Smithsonian |page= 4 |accessdate= 3 June 2012 |quote= Hair triggers fell into disrepute, but speed and accuracy continued to improve, particularly for shooting at greater distances. (In 1834 Alexander McClung, inveterate Southern duelist, set a new record by fatally shooting his man in the mouth with a percussion pistol at over a hundred feet.) }} 3. ^Cedar Hill Cemetery tombstone database (McClung, Col. Alexander K.) Retrieved 2015-08-21. References
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