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MEBANE, Alexander, statesman, born in Orange county, North Carolina, 26 November, 1744; died there, 5 July, 1795 His father, of the same name, came from the north of Ireland to Pennsylvania, but removed to Orange county, North Carolina, before the Revolution. The eldest sons, William and Robert, were officers in the Continental army. Alexander was a member of the Provincial congress at Halifax in 1776, of the convention that refused to ratify the National constitution in 1787, and of the legislature in 1783-'93 In the latter year he took his seat in congress, and he was re-elected, but died before entering on his second term.--His son, James, was many times a member of the legislature between 1808 and 1828, and speaker of the house in 1821.
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