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{{infobox officeholder
|honorofic-prefix = {{W|The Honorable}} 
|honorific-suffix = [[Member of Parliament (Sierra)|MP]] 
|image = Devin Nunes 113th Congress.jpg
|image_size = 210px 
|caption = Official office portrait, 2019 
|office1 = [[Member of Parliament (Sierra)|Member]] of the [[House of Commons of Sierra|K.S. House of Commons]] for Oleander-Sunset ([[Kings]]'s 17th district) 
|term_start1 = March 17, 2008 
|term_end1 = February 9, 2022 
|predecessor1 = [[George M. Afton]] 
|successor1 = ''[[2022 Oleander-Sunset by-election|TBD]]''
|office2 = Member of the [[Kings Provincial Assembly]] for the 21st district 
|term_start2 = March 2, 2000
|term_end2 = March 2, 2008 
|predecessor2 = [[Ashton Owens]] 
|successor2 = [[Leland Will]] 
|birth_date = January 25, 1972 
|birth_place = [[File:Flag of Kings.svg|25px]] [[Fort Travis, Kings|Fort Travis]], [[Kings]], [[Sierra]] 
|death_date = February 9, 2022 (aged 50) 
|death_place = [[File:Flag of Gold Coast.svg|25px]] [[Porciúncula]], [[Gold Coast]], [[Sierra]] 
|party = [[File:Royalist Tree.svg|25px]] [[Royalist Party of Sierra|Royalist]] 
|spouse = Martha McCarthy (m. 1995) 
|children = 3 
|education = [[University of Sierra, Riverside]] 
}}
'''Alexander James McCarthy''' (January 25, 1972 - February 9, 2022) was a Sierran statesman and politician who served as a [[Member of Parliament (Sierra)|member]] of the [[House of Commons]] for Oleander-Sunset ([[Kings]]'s 17th parliamentary district) from 2008 until 2022. A member of the [[Royalist Party of Sierra|Royalist Party]], McCarthy was a prominent conservative official and served as a member of the [[Kings Provincial Assembly]] from 2000 to 2008 before running for the House of Commons. 

McCarthy was born on January 25, 1972 in [[Fort Travis, Kings|Fort Travis]] in the province of [[Kings]] and was born into a middle-class household in the city's south suburbs. He would attend the [[University of Sierra, Riverside]] in the [[Inland Empire]] after graduating high school and studied both law and political science. During his time in college, he got involved with the Royalist Party and joined the campus' chapter of the [[Young Royalists of Sierra]] in 1994 and became active within the party. He would be inspired to run for politics and would run for the [[Kings Legislature]] in 2000 being elected to the Provincial Assembly, the lower house of the legislature. 

McCarthy was elected to the House of Commons in the [[2008 Sierran federal election]] after [[George M. Afton]] announced his retirement from politics. McCarthy won the Royalist nomination in the district and was elected to the House of Commons on March 14. During his time in the House of Commons, McCarthy was a very [[Conservatism in Sierra|conservative]] MP who was affiliated with the [[Royalist Study Committee]] and supported conservartive legislation including opposing the [[United Commonwealth]] and [[Landonism]], supporting gun rights, backing the [[Monarchy of Sierra|monarchy]], and was critical of the [[Conference of American States]]. He opposed the progressive legislation of [[Steven Hong]] durng his tenure as [[Prime Minister of Sierra|prime minister]] from 2008 to 2016 and supported [[Daniel McComb]] and [[Nemesis Heartwell]] during their tenures as prime minister. 

==Early life and education==
==Provincial assemblyman==
===Elections===
===Tenure===
==K.S. House of Commons==
===Elections===
===Tenure===
===Committee assignments===
*Committee on Foreign Relations
**Subcommittee on North America and Western Europe
**Subcommittee on Religious Liberty and Minority Rights 
*Committee on Agriculture 
**Subcommittee on Agricultural Security
**Subcommittee on Nutrition and Health 
===Caucus memberships===
*[[Royalist Study Committee]] 
==Deputy leadership campaign==
{{Main|2020 Royalist Party deputy leadership election}}
==Personal life==
==Death==
{{main|2022 Porciúncula bombings}}
==Electoral history==
==See also==
*[[2020 Royalist Party deputy leadership election]] 
*[[List of Sierran MPs killed while in office]] 
{{Members of the 67th Parliament of the Kingdom of Sierra}}
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[[Category:University of Sierra, Riverside alumni]]
[[Category:Assassinated Sierran MPs]]
[[Category:Assassinated Sierran politicians]]
[[Category:Kings politicians]]
[[Category:Kings Royalists]]
[[Category:Royalist Party Members of Parliament]]
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[[Category:Sierran anti-abortion activists]]
[[Category:Sierran gun rights activists]]
[[Category:People from Fort Travis, Kings]] 
[[Category:Sierran anti-Landonists]]
[[Category:Sierran Ameroskeptics]] 
[[Category:Sierran Avignonese Catholics]]
[[Category:Avignonese Catholics from Kings]]