Alexander Keith McClung
American duelist (1811β1855)
π Jackson, Mississippi USA
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Alexander Keith McClung was an attorney from Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S. marshal for the Northern District of Mississippi, a lieutenant colonel of the Mississippi Rifles during the Mexican-American War, and briefly chargΓ© d'affaires to Bolivia in President Zachary Taylor's administration. He is best known today for his participation in a series of antebellum duels, or gunfights. He became a folkloric figure of the 19th-century United States, a dead shot with mental health problems known as "the Black Knight of the South," with claims made to the effect that he killed 18 people, or participate
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