Alexander Beaufort Meek

Alexander Beaufort Meek (July 17, 1814 (Columbia, South Carolina) – November 1, 1865 (Columbus, Mississippi) was an American politician, lawyer, judge, and chess player. He also was a writer of historical and literary essays, and poetry. He served as Alabama's Attorney General in 1836.

Works

• An Oration Delivered before the Society of the Alumni of the University of Alabama at its First Anniversary, December 17, 1836
• The South West: Its History, Character, and Prospects: A Discourse for the Eighth Anniversary of the Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama, December 7, 1839, Tuscaloosa, C. B. Baldwin, Press, 1840, 40 p.
• Americanism in Literature. An Oration before the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian Societies of the University of Georgia, at Athens, August 8, 1844, Charleston, Burges and James, printers, 1844, 39 p.
• The Red Eagle: A Poem of the South, New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1855, 108 p.
  • Montgomery, Ala., The Paragon Press, 1914
• Romantic Passages in Southwestern History: Including Orations, Sketches, and Essays, New York, Mobile, S.H. Goetzel & Company, 1857, 330 p.
  • Spartanburg, S.C. : Reprint Company, 1975
• Songs and Poems of the South, New York Mobile, Alabama: S. H. Goetzel & Company, 1857, 282 p.

References

• Online biography of Meek, by the state of Alabama Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
• The Red Eagle, A Poem of The South, at Books.Google.com
• Alexander Beaufort Meek player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Video reenactment of Meek vs Amateur game by Serguei Vorojtsov on YouTube

External links

• Spinrad, Jeremy P. (October 2006), Judge Meek (PDF), ChessCafe.com