Mitchell Cary Alford

Mitchell Cary Alford (July 10, 1855 – December 9, 1914) was the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.

Early life

Mitchell Alford was born in Fayette County, Kentucky on July 10, 1856.^[1] He enrolled at Kentucky University (now Transylvania University), and graduated in 1877.^[1] He began studying law the following year, and earned a law degree with honors at Kentucky University in 1879.^[1] After graduation, he formed the law firm of Alford and Smith with Zachariah Frederick Smith, a college classmate.^[1]

Political career

Two years after being admitted to the bar, he was appointed master commissioner of Fayette County.^[2] At the expiration of his four-year term, he was elected judge of the recorder's court in Lexington, Kentucky.^[2] He served a two-year term and was re-elected to a second term, but resigned in order to run for a seat in the Kentucky Senate.^[2]

Alford was elected to the Senate, representing the Lexington district.^[2] At the time of his election, he was the youngest member of the state senate.^[2] During the first session of his four-year term, he chaired the Senate Committee on Appropriations; during the second session, he chaired the Committee on Railroads.^[2]

At the 1891

Following the end of his term as lieutenant governor, Alford served several years as the chair of the state Democratic Central Committee.[2] He was also president of the State League of Democratic Clubs.^[2] He helped organize the First National Bank of Middlesboro, Kentucky and was chosen its first president.^[2] He was a major stockholder in the Phoenix Hotel in Lexington, and eventually became its treasurer.^[2]

External links

• The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Alexandre to Alleman at politicalgraveyard.com
• Mitchell Cary Alford's entry at Lexington Cemetery

References

Bibliography

• Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
  Chicago, Illinois
  : J.M. Gresham Company. 1896.