[Alexander Beaufort]. American jurist and journalist, born in Columbia, SC, on the 17th of July 1814; graduated at the University of Alabama, and in 1835 was admitted to the bar, beginning the practice of law in Tuscaloosa, AL; served in the Seminole war, and was judge of the county court of Tuscaloosa. When a member of the state legislature, he secured the passage of the bill establishing the public schools of Alabama. His later years he spent in literary work. He edited The Southron in 1839, and, in addition to his journalistic writings, was the author of a legal digest, and of several verse and prose works, comprising The Red Eagle (1855); Songs and Poems of the South (1857); and Romantic Passages in Southwestern History (1857). He died in Columbus, MS, on the 30th of November 1865.
