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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJoshua Willis ALEXANDER
(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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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