Paul Jacob Alexander

Template:Short description Template:Infobox officeholder 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.Template:R 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,Template:R 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.Template:R He was elected in 1956 and re-elected in 1960 and 1964.Template:R He was a Republican,Template:R 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,Template:R and in 1964 he ran for re-election as an opponent of open housing.Template:R

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.Template:R Liem Tuai was appointed to fill his seat.Template:R

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