Introduction
Alexander Robinson Boteler (May 16, 1815 – May 8, 1892) was a nineteenth-century politician and clerk from Virginia.
Early life and education
Born in Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West Virginia), Boteler graduated from Princeton College in 1835 and engaged in agriculture and literary pursuits.
Career
He was elected an Oppositionist to the United States House of Representatives in 1858, serving from 1859 to 1861. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and was commissioned a member of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's staff. Boteler was chosen by the Virginia Convention to be a representative to the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861 and was later elected a Democrat to represent Virginia's 10th District in the Confederate States House of Representatives in 1861, serving from 1862 to 1864. After the war, he was appointed a member of the Centennial Commission in 1876 and was later appointed a member of the Tariff Commission by President Chester A. Arthur and was made a pardon clerk in the Department of Justice by Attorney General Benjamin H. Brewster. Boteler died in Shepherdstown, West Virginia on May 8, 1892 and was interred there at Elmwood Cemetery with his wife Helen Stockon Boteler.