Alexander Simpson (June 12, 1872 – July 20, 1953) was an American journalist, attorney, and Democratic politician.
[1] Simpson started his political career as an election officer in Jersey City's First Ward.
In 1930, he was the Democratic candidate for United States Senate in the regularly scheduled election, unsuccessfully opposing Republican nominee Dwight Morrow.
After investigating the 1922 murder of Edward Wheeler Hall, a New Brunswick Episcopal priest, and Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, a member of Hall's choir, Simpson was assigned as a special prosecutor in 1926 in the state's case against the priest's wife and her brothers.
[1] Simpson died in 1953 at Jersey City Medical Center at the age of 81.