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Historical Pub. Co., 1922.  p. 364.
 
GEORGE FORREST ALEXANDER

     George Forrest Alexander, lawyer and present United States marshal for the
State and District of Oregon, was born at Gallatin, Daviess county, Missouri,
April 20, 1882. His father, Judge Joshua W. Alexander, was a distinguished
lawyer, jurist and statesman of that state and was Secretary of Commerce in the
cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson. His mother was a daughter of the late Judge
Samuel A. Richardson, noted pioneer lawyer and jurist of Missouri.      
    The subject of this sketch received his early education in the public and
high schools of Gallatin, Missouri, later entering the academic department of
the University of Missouri where he studied for two years, then entered the law
department of the same school and graduated therefrom three years later or in
1905, with the degree of LL. B.  The following fall he opened a law office at
his old home in Gallatin, Missouri, and practiced his profession there
successfully until the spring of 1912, during which time he served his home city
about five years as city attorney and completely revised the city's laws and
ordinances. In the spring of 1912 considerations of health forced him to seek a
more congenial climate and his removal to Portland, Oregon, resulted. Here he
immediately resumed the practice of law and quickly gained the confidence and
goodwill of the people of Oregon, among whom he came as a total stranger, and
built up through his ability, energy and integrity, a substantial practice. In
September, 1917, shortly after the outbreak of the great World war, Mr.
Alexander was tendered and accepted the appointment as United States Marshal for
Oregon and served his country throughout that stirring period with conspicuous
ability, making for himself an enviable record as an energetic, patriotic and
public spirited citizen and public official.
     On April 27, 1907, Mr. Alexander was married to Miss Lola Mae Surface, only
daughter of the late L. L. Surface. They have three children: Joshua W., Jr.,
Lillian Frances and Julia Jane.
     Mr. Alexander is a member of the First Christian church; the Portland
Chamber of Commerce; Oregon Bar Association; Portland Golf Club; and Missouri
Society of Oregon of which he was for several years president. He is also an
enthusiastic lodge man being a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner; he is a
member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World and
is an Artisan. During the World war he took an active part in all patriotic
movements and was an enthusiastic worker in all the Liberty loan, Red Cross and
similar drives. He is one of the best known of the so-called younger set of
lawyers in the state and a forceful, progressive, forward-looking citizen of the
highest type.
 
 
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in August 2007 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.