{{short description|American frontiersman and politician (1738-1826)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox Officeholder |name = Alexander Outlaw |image = |image_size = |office = Speaker of the Tennessee Senate |term = 1799–1801<ref>[http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/misc/officers6.pdf Historical Constitutional Officers of Tennessee, 1796 - present, Territory South of the River Ohio, 1790 - 1796]. Accessed: 7 September 2012.</ref> |predecessor = William Blount |successor = James White |birth_date = 1738 |death_date = 1826 |birth_place = Duplin County, North Carolina |death_place = Dallas County, Alabama |resting_place = |spouse = Penelope (Smith) Outlaw |allegiance = {{flag|United States|1777}} |service_years = 1777, 1780s |rank = Colonel |branch = Colonial and state militias |commands = |battles = }} '''Alexander Outlaw''' (1738–1826) was an American frontiersman and politician, active in the formation and early history of the state of Tennessee. A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, he settled on the Appalachian frontier, in what is now Jefferson County, Tennessee, in the early 1780s. He served simultaneously in the assembly of the failed State of Franklin as well as the legislature of its parent state, North Carolina. He was a delegate to the North Carolina convention that ratified the United States Constitution in 1789, and to the Tennessee state constitutional convention in 1796.<ref name=scw>Samuel Cole Williams, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=UWq0CtvLn_4C&pg=PA324 Alexander Outlaw]," ''History of the Lost State of Franklin'' (1933), pp. 324-325.</ref>
Outlaw represented Jefferson County in the Tennessee House of Representatives during the First General Assembly (1796). He represented Jefferson County in the Tennessee Senate during the Third General Assembly (1799–1801) and was elected Speaker.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=YoFIAAAAYAAJ&q=%22charles+inman%22+sevier Tennessee Blue Book]'' (1890), pp. 197-198.</ref> After his senate term, he focused primarily on land speculation and law. He died in Dallas County, Alabama, in 1826.<ref name=scw />
Rural Mount, a house built by Outlaw for his son-in-law, Joseph Hamilton, still stands near Morristown, Tennessee, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Outlaw was the grandfather of U.S. Senator Alexander Outlaw Anderson.<ref name=scw />
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