Alonzo Albert Skinner (January 16, 1814 – April 30, 1877) was an American judge and Whig party politician in Oregon.

[4] He was paid a salary of $800 per year for the job and served until 1849 when the Territorial Government arrived and judge Orville C. Pratt took over for Skinner.

[2] After this in June 1850 he became a member of an Indian Commission set up by the United States government to negotiate treaties with the tribes west of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon.

[5] However, Skinner and his fellow commissioners John P. Gaines and Beverly S. Allen were only able to get treaties signed that allowed the tribes to remain on the west side and in the foothills of the Willamette Valley.

[2] As a Whig party candidate Skinner lost to Lane the Democrat while calling for a transcontinental railroad in his campaign.

[2][6] During the American Civil War Skinner was an assistant provost marshal for the United States Army as a civilian.