Alexander Richmond Holladay (September 18, 1811 – January 29, 1877) was a 19th-century politician and lawyer from Virginia.
[1] Alexander Holladay attended public schools as a child and received special training under John Lewis at the Llangollen School, Bel Air, in Spotsylvania County, then attended the University of Virginia, where he studied law.
[2] Holladay was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Spotsylvania, Orange and Louisa Counties, Virginia.
Holladay was president of the Virginia Board of Public Works from 1857 to 1861 before his death in Richmond on January 29, 1877.
He was interred in the family cemetery called "Prospect Hill" in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.