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Alexander Beaufort Meek (1814–1865)
Meek, Alexander Beaufort (mēk). An American jurist, journalist, and miscellaneous writer; born at Columbia, SC, July 17, 1814; died at Columbus, MS, Nov. 30, 1865. He served in the Seminole war, 1836; was attorney-general of Alabama, 1836; judge of Tuscaloosa County, 1842–44; member of the Legislature in 1853, where and when he established the free-school system of Alabama; Speaker of the Alabama House, 1859. Besides a legal digest (1842), he wrote: ‘The Red Eagle’ (1855); ‘Songs and Poems of the South’ (1857); ‘Romantic Passages in Southwestern History’ (1857); ‘History of Alabama’ (unpublished); etc. His best-known poem is ‘The Charge at Balaklava.’