Alexander King Farrar (c. 1814–1878) was a state senator, lawyer, plantation owner, and secession convention delegate in Mississippi.[1]
Farrar was a prominent slave owner[2] with a large plantation near
Kingston, Mississippi. He owned about 250 slaves.[3] He represented
Adams County, Mississippi in the
Mississippi Senate from 1852 to 1858. He married Ann Mary Dougharty and, after her death in the 1860s, Lue Philps Lesley.[4] He was involved in investigating the murder of a plantation manager.[2][5]
Farrar was involved in the hanging of dozens of enslaved people during the American Civil War. After the war he was involved in a plan to sell part of his plantation to freedmen.[6]