Christopher Alexander "Alex" Haun (September 14, 1821 – December 11, 1861) was a potter from Greene County, Tennessee, regarded as one of the most notable and skilled of the antebellum period.

[1][2][3][4] During the American Civil War, he was executed by the Confederate States of America for participation in the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy.

[2] Haun and a number of potters lived in a part of Greene County referred to as Pottertown, using local clay found near Lick Creek.

[1][3] Union supporter Reverend William Blount Carter launched a plan, with the approval of President Abraham Lincoln, to destroy Tennessee bridges in order to disrupt the Confederate railroad system.

[1][3][6] Before he died, he wrote to his wife regarding the disposition of his pottery business and concluded: I have the promise that my body will be sent home to you.