# Alexander Outlaw
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{{short description|American frontiersman and politician (1738-1826)}}
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{{Infobox Officeholder
|name = Alexander Outlaw
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|office = [Speaker of the Tennessee Senate](/source/List_of_lieutenant_governors_of_Tennessee)
|term = 1799–1801[[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.]
|predecessor = [William Blount](/source/William_Blount)
|successor = [James White](/source/James_White_(General))
|birth_date = 1738
|death_date = 1826
|birth_place = [Duplin County, North Carolina](/source/Duplin_County%2C_North_Carolina)
|death_place = [Dallas County, Alabama](/source/Dallas_County%2C_Alabama)
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|spouse = Penelope (Smith) Outlaw
|allegiance = {{flag|United States|1777}}
|service_years = 1777, 1780s
|rank = [Colonel](/source/Colonel_(United_States))
|branch = Colonial and state [militias](/source/Militia_(United_States))
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'''Alexander Outlaw''' (1738–1826) was an American frontiersman and politician, active in the formation and early history of the state of [Tennessee](/source/Tennessee). A veteran of the [American Revolutionary War](/source/American_Revolutionary_War), he settled on the [Appalachian](/source/Appalachian_Mountains) frontier, in what is now [Jefferson County, Tennessee](/source/Jefferson_County%2C_Tennessee), in the early 1780s. He served simultaneously in the assembly of the failed [State of Franklin](/source/State_of_Franklin) as well as the legislature of its parent state, [North Carolina](/source/North_Carolina). He was a delegate to the North Carolina convention that ratified the [United States Constitution](/source/United_States_Constitution) in 1789, and to the Tennessee state constitutional convention in 1796.[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.]
Outlaw represented Jefferson County in the [Tennessee House of Representatives](/source/Tennessee_House_of_Representatives) during the First General Assembly (1796). He represented Jefferson County in the [Tennessee Senate](/source/Tennessee_Senate) during the Third General Assembly (1799–1801) and was elected [Speaker](/source/speaker_(politics)).[''[https://books.google.com/books?id=YoFIAAAAYAAJ&q=%22charles+inman%22+sevier Tennessee Blue Book]'' (1890), pp. 197-198.] After his senate term, he focused primarily on [land speculation](/source/land_speculation) and law. He died in [Dallas County, Alabama](/source/Dallas_County%2C_Alabama), in 1826.