Paul Jacob Alexander

Paul Alexander
Member of the Seattle City Council
In office
1956–1969
Succeeded byLiem Tuai
Personal details
Born(1904-03-11)March 11, 1904
Seattle, Washington
DiedMay 6, 1969(1969-05-06) (aged 65)
Washington, D.C.
Political partyRepublican
ResidenceSeattle
Occupationnewspaper publisher, Seattle City Councilmember

Paul Jacob Alexander (March 11, 1904 – May 6, 1969) was a newspaper publisher and Seattle City Councilman.

Paul Jacob Alexander was born in Seattle, Washington on March 11, 1904, to Alfred and Lillian (Wooding) Alexander.[1] He graduated from Ballard High School and spent a semester at the University of Washington. He worked for The Seattle Times in the 1920s, and purchased the Rainier District Times,[2] a community newspaper in the Rainier Valley, in 1929. He sold the paper in 1965.

He ran unsuccessfully for the Seattle City Council in 1952 and 1954.[3] He was elected in 1956 and re-elected in 1960 and 1964.[4] He was a Republican,[5] and although he was a strong supporter of freedom of the press, he considered himself a conservative. In 1963, he succeeded in removing an emergency clause from Seattle's proposed open housing ordinance that would have allowed it to take effect without a public vote,[6] and in 1964 he ran for re-election as an opponent of open housing.[7]

As the chairman of the Council's Utilities Committee, he was attending a reception at the American Public Power Association in Washington, D.C. when he died of a heart attack.[4] Liem Tuai was appointed to fill his seat.[5]

He lived in Rainier Valley, a block from Lake Washington.

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