Alexander McClurg Drake (January 11, 1859 – October 8, 1934) was a Minnesota investor and Oregon pioneer.

[1] He was the second son of Caroline Matilda McClurg and Elias Franklin Drake, who was involved with the railroad business.

Mrs. Drake's love of the area's natural beauty, "the majestic Cascades to the West and the Deschutes River in the foreground" is said to be responsible for the selection of the site on which Bend now stands.

He platted the streets of Bend and was organizer in the Central Oregon irrigation project that was assigned the first land under the Carey Act segregation, building the Central Oregon Canal and Pilot Butte Canal which later led to the Bend area population boom from rapid agricultural development.

[4] On November 2, 1910, the first electricity was provided to the business district (with intentions to later expand to the residential areas) through five miles of power lines on 85 poles throughout Bend.