The Biographical Dictionary of America/Barrow, Alexander

​BARROW, Alexander, senator, was born at Nashville, Tenn., in 1801. After attending the military academy at West Point for a short time he began the study of the law at Nashville, Tenn., and was admitted to the bar. He practised his profession in Louisiana for a time, and then devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He was elected and several times re-elected to the Louisiana state legislature, and was elected to the United States senate in 1841, serving from May 31, 1841, until his death, when he was succeeded by Pierre Soulé. He died Dec. 29, 1846.

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