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 married Ann Mary Dougharty and, after her death in the 1860s, Lue Philps Lesley.
[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.