George Alexander (September 21, 1839 – August 2, 1923) was a political figure who, from 1909 to 1913, served as the 28th mayor of Los Angeles, California.

[1] Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1839, he moved with his parents to the United States at the age of 11.

After the war, he settled in the small Iowa city of Belle Plaine, and in 1870 started his own grain and feed business.

[citation needed] In 1887, at the age of 48, Alexander moved west to Los Angeles and expanded his grain business.

[7][8][9] George Alexander died in Los Angeles in 1923, seven weeks before his 84th birthday, and is interred there in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery.