Honolulu-Maui County HI Archives Biographies.....Alexander, Wallace McKinney November 19, 1889 - 
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Source: Men of Hawaii Vol. IV
Author: George F. Nellist (editor)

Alexander, Wallace McKinney: Chairman of the Board of Directors, Alexander &
Baldwin, Ltd.

     Born Nov. 19, 1889, Island of Maui, son of Samuel Thomas and Martha Eliza
(Cooke) Alexander; married Mary S. Barker, Oakland, Calif., Aug. 16, 1904;
daughter, Martha Barker Alexander; member San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
(president 1921-1922), chairman International Trade Commercial Relations
Committee of San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; director Californians, Inc.;
Institute of Pacific Relations, San Francisco Industrial Association (director,
member executive committee), Theta Xi national fraternity, Pacific Union and
Bohemian clubs, San Francisco; Commercial and Pacific clubs. Honolulu, Yale
Club, New York.

     For many years associated with the firm of Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd.,
Wallace M. Alexander, who now divides his time between his native Hawaii and San
Francisco, has been a leader in the movement to foster better relations among
the peoples of the Pacific and to bring the advantages and benefits of the
Pacific area before the rest of the world. He also is an officer and director of
leading Hawaiian and California corporations.

     One of the organizers of the Institute of Pacific Relations, Mr. Alexander
was a member of the United States delegation to the conference of that
organization in Kyoto, Japan, late in 1929. Mr. Alexander also was chairman of
the San Francisco commercial commission which visited Japan in 1920 to foster
commercial relations.

     Prominent In the civic affairs of the San Francisco bay area, Mr. Alexander
was president, of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco in 1921 and 1922, is
a director of Californians, Inc., which is engaged in bringing to the attention
of the rest of the world the advantages and opportunities offered by northern
California, and is a member of the executive committee and a director of the San
Francisco Industrial Association, an organization of important business men.

     Mr. Alexander's father, the late S. T. Alexander, was a pioneer of the
sugar industry in Hawaii and with the late Henry P. Baldwin and J. P. Cooke
organized the firm of Alexander & Baldwin. After joining the firm in 1894,
Wallace M. Alexander was given charge of the San Francisco office and upon the
death of J. P. Cooke in 1918, he was elected president of the corporation.
Retiring from this office Feb. 27, 1930. Mr. Alexander was succeeded by John
Waterhouse, and became chairman of the Board of Directors. He plans to give much
of his time to the Institute of Pacific Relations.

     Mr. Alexander is vice-president of the Matson Navigation Co., and the
Honolulu Consolidated Oil Co. of California, and a director of the Columbia
Steel Co.

     Mr. Alexander bus always taken a deep interest in amateur sports,
particularly tennis, and has served the California Tennis Association as
vice-president for several years, aiding in the development of such outstanding
players as Miss Helen Wills, Helen Jacobs, William Johnston, the Griffin
brothers, Kinsey brothers, and many others who are ranked among the best players
in the country. He was educated at Yale University (B.A. 1892).



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