[1] His younger brother H. Meade Alcorn Jr. (1907–1992) was a Republican politician and strategist who served as chairman of the national party during Eisenhower's presidency.
After attending law classes at Harvard and Yale, he was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1926.
[2] In Suffield he was a founding member of the Zoning Commission and served as chairman from 1928 to 1943, as well as on several other local bodies.
After his retirement he continued to serve as a state trial referee until 1984, presiding as grand juror in a major corruption probe in New Britain in the 1970s.
[3] Alcorn married Bertha "Bird" Pinney (1902–2004); they had three daughters, Carolyn Childs, Elizabeth Holt, and Terry Foster.