Alvin Saunders (12 July 1817-1 November 1899) was the Republican Governor of the Nebraska Territory from 15 May 1861 to 21 February 1867 (succeeding Algernon Paddock and preceding David Butler) and a US Senator from Nebraska from 4 March 1877 to 3 March 1883 (succeeding Phineas Hitchcock and preceding Charles F. Manderson).
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Alvin Saunders was born in Fleming County, Kentucky in 1817, and he was raised in Illinois and Mount Pleasant, Iowa. He served as postmaster of Mount Pleasant for seven years before serving in the state senate from 1854 to 1856 and from 1858 to 1860, as Governor of the Nebraska Territory from 1861 to 1867, and as a US Senator from 1877 to 1883. He died in Omaha in 1899.