HARRY E. ALEXANDER
1907 - 1910

Harry E. Alexander, the ninth prosecuting attorney, was born in Fruitland on February 3, 1880, and attended high school and college in Cape Girardeau, and the University of Missouri and the University of Texas, graduating from Texas's law department in 1902. He served two terms as police judge of Cape Girardeau before serving two terms as prosecuting attorney. He was also elected city attorney of Cape Girardeau. He was a law partner to Senator Thomas F. Lane, and was appointed federal referee in bankruptcy in 1920, handling those duties in addition to his law practice. He died of a heart attack on September 19, 1930, while driving to Oak Ridge with the brother of a client to get an affidavit from a juror in an effort to get his client paroled from prison.

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