Paul Jacob Alexander
{{Short description|American politician (1904–1969)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Paul Alexander
| image = Paul J. Alexander at the dedication of Boundary Dam, 1967.tiff
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| office = Member of the Seattle City Council
| term_start = 1956
| term_end = 1969
| predecessor =
| successor = Liem Tuai
| birth_date = {{birth date|1904|3|11}}
| birth_place = Seattle, Washington
| death_date = {{death date and age|1969|5|6|1904|3|11}}
| death_place = Washington, D.C.
| party = Republican
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| residence = Seattle
| occupation = newspaper publisher, Seattle City Councilmember
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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.{{r|FamilySearch}} 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,{{r|WorldCat}} 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.{{r|SeattleElections}} He was elected in 1956 and re-elected in 1960 and 1964.{{r|Stein}} He was a Republican,{{r|Stein2}} 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,{{r|SeattleArchives}} and in 1964 he ran for re-election as an opponent of open housing.{{r|Goodloe}}
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.{{r|Stein}} Liem Tuai was appointed to fill his seat.{{r|Stein2}}
He lived in Rainier Valley, a block from Lake Washington.
References
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{{Cite web
|title=Paul Jacob Alexander
|website=FamilySearch
|series=Washington Birth Records, 1869-1950
|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRM7-DJS
|accessdate=October 7, 2018
}}
{{Cite web
|url=http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/CORE_housing_media.htm
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227161729/http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/CORE_housing_media.htm
|archive-date=February 27, 2018
|title=The 1964 Open Housing Election: How the Press Influenced the Campaign
|series=Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project
|publisher=University of Washington
|year=2008
|accessdate=October 7, 2018
}}
{{Cite book
|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18502497
|title=The Rainier District times
|date=2018
|via=WorldCat
|publisher=OCLC
|access-date=October 8, 2018
|oclc=18502497
}}
{{cite web
| date=2018
| publisher=City of Seattle
| title=The Seattle Open Housing Campaign, 1959–1968
| url=https://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/exhibits-and-education/online-exhibits/seattle-open-housing-campaign
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616191820/https://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/exhibits-and-education/online-exhibits/seattle-open-housing-campaign
| archive-date=June 16, 2018
| accessdate=October 7, 2018
}}
{{cite web
| date=2018
| publisher=City of Seattle
| title=1950–1959 Historic Election Results
| url=https://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/seattle-facts/historical-election-results#19501959historicelectionresults
| accessdate=October 7, 2018
}}
{{cite web
| author-last=Stein
| author-first=Alan J.
| date=June 3, 1999
| publisher=HistoryLink.org
| title=Seattle City Councilman Paul Alexander dies on May 6, 1969
| url=http://www.historylink.org/File/1230
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710054157/http://www.historylink.org/File/1230
| archive-date=July 10, 2018
| accessdate=October 7, 2018
}}
{{cite web
| author-last=Stein
| author-first=Alan J.
| date=June 4, 1999
| publisher=HistoryLink.org
| title=Seattle City Council appoints Liem Tuai to Council on May 19, 1969
| url=http://historylink.org/File/1233
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710054157/http://www.historylink.org/File/1233
| archive-date=July 10, 2018
| accessdate=October 7, 2018
}}
}}
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