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McNair, Alexander 1774-

Military officer; born in Derry, Pa., in 1774; served in the whiskey insurrection as a lieutenant in 1794; appointed a lieutenant in the regular army in 1799; mustered out in 1800; removed to Missouri in 1804, where he was appointed United States commissary, and in 1812 adjutant and inspectorgeneral. He was the first governor of Missouri, serving from 1820 to 1824, when he re-entered the service of the United States as Indian agent.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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