Wallace M. Alexander

Wallace M. Alexander
Wallace M. Alexander
Born	November 10, 1869; Maui, Kingdom of Hawaii
Died	November 22, 1939; Honolulu, Hawaii
Education	Yale University
Occupation(s)	Businessman, philanthropist
Political party	Republican Party
Spouse	Mary S. Baker
Parent(s)	Samuel Thomas Alexander; Martha E. (Cooke) Alexander
Relatives	William Patterson Alexander (paternal grandfather); Amos Starr Cooke (maternal grandfather)

Wallace M. Alexander (1869–1939) was an American heir, businessman and philanthropist.

Biography

Early life

Wallace McKinney Alexander was born on November 10, 1869, in Maui, Hawaii.^[1]^[2] His father was Samuel Thomas Alexander.^[2] His mother was Martha E. (Cooke) Alexander.^[2] His paternal grandfather, William Patterson Alexander, was a missionary in Hawaii.^[2] His maternal grandfather, Amos Starr Cooke, was a Hawaii missionary and founder of the Castle & Cooke company.

Alexander grew up in Oakland, California, and was educated at Oakland High School,^[3]^[4] then Phillips Andover Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.^[2] He graduated from Yale University in 1892.^[1]^[5]

Career

Alexander owned sugarcane plantations as well as sugar refining factories in Hawaii.^[1] He served on the Board of Directors of Alexander and Baldwin.^[1] He also served as the Vice President of the Matson Navigation Company and the Honolulu Oil Corporation.^[1]

He served as president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.^[1]^[5] He was also a powerbroker in the Republican Party of San Francisco.^[5] In 1928, he suggested prohibiting mutual immigration between the United States and Japan; the idea was rejected by Japan.^[5]

Philanthropy

Alexander served on the board of trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.^[1] He was a member of the Japan Society of San Francisco and a co-founder of the Institute of Pacific Relations.^[1]^[5] He supported the Boy Scouts of America.^[1]

He served as president of the San Francisco Opera.^[1] He also served on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University in Stanford, near Palo Alto, having been first elected in 1924 and re-elected in 1934.^[1]

He received the Legion of Honor from France in 1937.^[1]

Personal life

Alexander married Mary S. Baker in 1904,a classmate for when Alexander attended Oakland public schools.^[2] As an adult he lived in Piedmont, California, and moved back to Hawaii where he died.

Death

Alexander died on November 22, 1939, in Honolulu, Hawaii.^[1] He was seventy years old.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Stanford Historical Society: Wallace M. Alexander
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Allen L. Chickering, 'Wallace M. Alexander, 1869-1939', California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Dec., 1939), pp. 379-381 [1]
^ "1888 OHS Memorial".
^ Gail Lombardi, Piedmonts History: The Building Years 1910-1930, The Attic Trunk a Publication of the Piedmont Historical Society 2006, p. 10]
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Izumi Hirobe, Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act, Stanford University Press, 2001, pp. 121-124 [2]

[stanfordhistorical-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Stanford Historical Society: Wallace M. Alexander

[chickering-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Allen L. Chickering, 'Wallace M. Alexander, 1869-1939', California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Dec., 1939), pp. 379-381 [1]

[3] "1888 OHS Memorial".

[4] Gail Lombardi, Piedmonts History: The Building Years 1910-1930, The Attic Trunk a Publication of the Piedmont Historical Society 2006, p. 10]

[izumihirobe-5] Izumi Hirobe, Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act, Stanford University Press, 2001, pp. 121-124 [2]

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