Alexander Kerr Craig (February 21, 1828 – July 29, 1892) was a
Democratic member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Article One of th ...
from
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
.
[Kestenbaum, Lawrence.]
Craig, Alexander Kerr
" in ''The Political Graveyard'', retrieved online February 14, 2008.
Biography
Alexander K. Craig was born near
Claysville, Pennsylvania
Claysville is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States and part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area since 1950. The population was 728 at the 2020 census. Claysville Elementary School, part of the McGuffey School District is ...
. He attended the common schools and was educated by a private tutor. He became a teacher at the age of sixteen, and began the study of law, but devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He taught school in winter months and subsequently became principal of the Claysville public schools. He enlisted in February 1865 in the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. After his service, he resumed agricultural pursuits near Claysville, and served as school director and justice of the peace.
Craig successfully contested as a Democrat the election of
Andrew Stewart to the
Fifty-second Congress and served until his death in Claysville in 1892. He was interred in Claysville Cemetery.
Craig is also credited with the advent of
Opposite Day
Opposite Day is a make believe game usually played by children. Conceptually, Opposite Day is a holiday where things are said and done in an opposite manner. It is not a holiday on any calendar and therefore one can declare that any day of the y ...
, a form of the
liar paradox
In philosophy and logic, the classical liar paradox or liar's paradox or antinomy of the liar is the statement of a liar that they are lying: for instance, declaring that "I am lying". If the liar is indeed lying, then the liar is telling the trut ...
.
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References
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Union army soldiers
Schoolteachers from Pennsylvania
1828 births
1892 deaths
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
19th-century American educators
19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives