Dec 17, 2009

State of the Union | Characters

Judge Jefferson Davis Alexander
Judge Alexander is the husband of Lulubelle Alexander and a prominent Southern Republican who attends the Matthews’s dinner party. He spends much of the time before dinner fixing drinks for his wife, Lulubelle, and Mary Matthews. The judge has been stuck in the same state judicial appointment for years, and he hopes that if Grant gets elected, he will appoint the judge to a federal position. In fact, he goes so far as to give Grant a list of the major decisions that he has made in his time on the state bench, to try to sway Grant’s mind....