Alexander Posey

Alexander Lawrence Posey, born August 3, 1873, was a Muskogee Creek poet, journalist, and humorist known for his poems and Fus Fixico letters, a satirical correspondence series written from his fictional persona, Fus Fixico, which commented on local and national politics of the time. He served as the editor for the Eufaula Indian Journal before passing away on May 27, 1908. The posthumous The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey (Crane Printers), which was collected and arranged by Posey’s wife, was published in 1910.

Posey died along the North Canadian River while trying to make his way from Eufaula to Muskogee, Oklahoma.