Alexander Keith McClung

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title: Alexander Keith McClung
text: Alexander Keith McClung was an attorney from Vicksburg, Mississippi, who briefly served as US chargé d'affaires to Bolivia in President Zachary Taylor's administration. An "inveterate Southern duelist" nicknamed "The Black Knight of the South", he killed as many as fourteen men in duels during his life. He was also a poet. James H. Street used him as the model for the character Keith Alexander in his novel Tap Roots (1942). McClung was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, and was the nephew of Uni
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description: American diplomat
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