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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriALEXANDER, Joshua Willis
(1852—1936)
ALEXANDER, Joshua Willis, a Representative from Missouri; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 22, 1852; attended public and private schools; graduated from Christian University (now Culver-Stockton College), Canton, Mo., 1872; lawyer, private practice; public administrator of Daviess County, Mo., 1877-1881; secretary and then president of the board of education of Gallatin, Mo., 1882-1901; member of the Missouri state house of representatives, 1883-1887, speaker, 1887; mayor of Gallatin, Mo., 1891-1892; hospital executive; judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Missouri, 1901-1907; elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-December 15, 1919); chair, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses); chair, United States Commission to the International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, 1913-1914; Secretary of Commerce in the Cabinet of President Wilson, 1919-1921; delegate at large to the Missouri state constitutional convention in 1922; died on February 27, 1936, in Gallatin, Mo.; interment in Brown Cemetery, Mo.
Bibliography
Sponaugle, Gail Ann Kohlenberg. “The Congressional Career of Joshua W. Alexander.” Master’s thesis, Northeast Missouri State University, 1979.
Sponaugle, Gail Ann Kohlenberg. “The Congressional Career of Joshua W. Alexander.” Master’s thesis, Northeast Missouri State University, 1979.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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