{{Short description|American politician (1854–1895)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name =Alpheus Brown Alger<ref name="ReedVp7">{{Citation | last=Reed|first= Warren A.| title = Harvard College Class of 1875 Secretary's Report, No. V. | page = 7 | publisher = Harvard College | location = Cambridge, Ma | year = 1888}}</ref> | image = Alpheus Brown Alger (1854–1895).png | image_size = | caption = Alger c. 1892 | office =Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts | term_start =January 1891 | term_end =January 1892 | predecessor =Henry Gilmore | successor =William Bancroft | office2 =Member of the <br>Massachusetts State Senate<br>Third Middlesex District<ref name="Toomeyp296">{{Citation |last= Toomey|first=Daniel P.| title = Massachusetts of Today: a Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical | page = 296 | publisher = Columbia Publishing Company | location = Boston, MA | year = 1892}}</ref> | term_start2 =1886<ref name="ReedVp7"/> | term_end2 =1887<ref name="ReedVp8">{{Citation | last=Reed|first= Warren A.| title = Harvard College Class of 1875 Secretary's Report, No. V. | page = 8 | publisher = Harvard College | location = Cambridge, Ma | year = 1888}}</ref> | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | office3 =Member of the <br>Board of Aldermen<br>of Cambridge, Massachusetts<ref name="Toomeyp296"/> | term_start3 =1884<ref name="CamCityCounp166">{{Citation | last= Cambridge City Council| title=The Revised Ordinances of 1889 of the city of Cambridge| page = 166 | publisher = Cambridge City Council | location = Boston, MA | year = 1890}}</ref> | term_end3 =1884<ref name="CamCityCounp166"/> | predecessor3 = | successor3 = |party=Democratic | birth_date = {{Birth date|1854|10|08}}<ref name="Toomeyp296"/> | birth_place =Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.<ref name="Toomeyp296"/> | death_date = {{Death date and age|1895|05|04|1854|10|08}}<ref name="BET5495p8"/> | death_place =Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.<ref name="BET5495p8"/> |alma_mater=Harvard College, Harvard Law School<ref name="Toomeyp296"/> | occupation = Attorney<ref name="Toomeyp296"/> | spouse = | children = }}
'''Alpheus Brown Alger''' (October 8, 1854 – May 4, 1895) was a Massachusetts politician who served in the Massachusetts State Senate, as a member of the Board of Aldermen and as the Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
==Biography== Alger was born to Edwin Alden and Amanda Malvina Alger, née Buswell, in Lowell, Massachusetts.<ref name="ReedVIp9">{{Citation | last=Reed|first= Warren A.| title = Harvard College Class of 1875 Secretary's Report, No. VI. - 1875-1891 | page = 9 | publisher = Harvard College | year = 1891}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rand |first=John Clark |title=One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89 |publisher=First National Publishing Company |year=1890 |pages=10–11 |language=en}}</ref> From October 1875 to January 1877 Alger studied law at Harvard Law School and he was admitted to the bar for the County of Middlesex on June 4, 1877.<ref name="ReedVp7"/> After being admitted to the bar, he began practicing law with his father's firm, Brown & Alger in Boston while living in Cambridge.<ref name="ReedVIp9" /> Alger was active in the Democratic party. From 1878 to 1891 Alger was a member of the Cambridge Democratic Committee, from 1884 to 1891 he was a member of Massachusetts' Democratic party state committee, and he represented Massachusetts' eight Congressional District at the 1888 Democratic National Convention.<ref name="BET5495p8"/> He died on May 4, 1895, in North Cambridge, Massachusetts.<ref name="BET5495p8">{{cite news |work= Boston Evening Transcript| title =Ex-Mayor Alger of Cambridge |quote= Died This Morning. Once Aldermen of Cambridge, Senator for Two Terms and Twice Chosen Mayor of Cambridge|page =8 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=18950504&id=pwI0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=WiMIAAAAIBAJ&pg=3137,355643 <!--location = Boston, Massachusetts--> | date =May 4, 1895}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | title=Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts | before= Henry Gilmore | years= January 1891 – January 1892 |after= William Bancroft}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
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