Paul Jacob Alexander (March 11, 1904 – May 6, 1969) was a newspaper publisher and Seattle City Councilman.

[1] He graduated from Ballard High School and spent a semester at the University of Washington.

[4] He was a Republican,[5] and although he was a strong supporter of freedom of the press, he considered himself a conservative.

In 1963, he succeeded in removing an emergency clause from Seattle's proposed open housing ordinance that would have allowed it to take effect without a public vote,[6] and in 1964 he ran for re-election as an opponent of open housing.

[7] As the chairman of the Council's Utilities Committee, he was attending a reception at the American Public Power Association in Washington, D.C. when he died of a heart attack.