American politician
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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"Paul Jacob Alexander" . FamilySearch . Washington Birth Records, 1869-1950. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
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The Rainier District times . OCLC. 2018. OCLC 18502497 . Retrieved October 8, 2018 – via WorldCat.
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"1950–1959 Historic Election Results" . City of Seattle. 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
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Stein, Alan J. (June 3, 1999). "Seattle City Councilman Paul Alexander dies on May 6, 1969" . HistoryLink.org. Archived from the original on July 10, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
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Stein, Alan J. (June 4, 1999). "Seattle City Council appoints Liem Tuai to Council on May 19, 1969" . HistoryLink.org. Archived from the original on July 10, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
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"The Seattle Open Housing Campaign, 1959–1968" . City of Seattle. 2018. Archived from the original on June 16, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
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"The 1964 Open Housing Election: How the Press Influenced the Campaign" . Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project. University of Washington. 2008. Archived from the original on February 27, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .