ALSTON, Willis, (nephew of Nathaniel Macon), a Representative from North Carolina; born near Littleton, Halifax County, N.C., in 1769; completed preparatory studies and attended Princeton College; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of commons 1790-1792; served in the State senate 1794-1796; elected as a Republican to the Sixth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1799-March 3, 1815); chairman, Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Thirteenth Congress); again a member of the State house of commons 1820-1824; elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1831); chairman, Committee on Elections (Twenty-first Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to the Twenty-second Congress; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Halifax, N.C., April 10, 1837; interment in a private burying ground on his plantation home, “Butterwood,” near Littleton, Halifax County, N.C.
(Source: Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771 - Present)

ALSTON, Willis, congressman, was born in Halifax County, N. C. Neither the date of his birth nor of his death has been preserved, and very little of his early life is known. He was a member of the provincial house of commons of North Carolina, from the district of Halifax, in 1791 and 1792, and from 1799 to 1803 a member of congress.
{Source: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 2; Publ. 1892, by James T. White & Co., N. Y.; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.}