Alexander Room

Room Specifications

Floor	Square Feet	Overall Room Dimensions	Ceiling Height
2	494	23'-6" x 21'	11'
Banquet Buffet Style	Classroom Style	Conference Style	Theater Style
24	24	22	35

Images of the Room (click to enlarge):

Banquet Style	Classroom Style
Conference Style	Lecture Style

Features

• Conference Room (Std)
• Data connections
• Built-in Flip Chart
• Meeting Room
• Phone line access
• Built-in Projection Screen
• Built-in White Board

Moses Alexander -- 1853-1934

Moses Alexander's career reinforces Idaho's image as a land of opportunity and ethnic diversity. He established the Alexander Men's stores in Idaho; and was successful in Idaho politics, both locally in Boise and in State government. He was also a leader in community activities and instrumental in organizing Boise's Jewish community.

Moses Alexander was born November 13, 1853 to a Jewish family in Obrigheim, Germany. He was the youngest of eight children. After living in Bavaria until the age of 14, Alexander immigrated to the United States in 1867. He lived for one year in New York City with a married sister and later moved to Chillicothe, Missouri to work as a clerk in his cousin's dry-goods store, Jacob Berg & Company. At the age of 21, Alexander became a partner in the business. Alexander became politically and socially active in Missouri, joining the Democrats and Masons, and was a student of American Constitutional history. Alexander married Helen Keastner, a native of Crimmitzsehau, Saxony, who had immigrated to America in 1868. Together they had four children.

Already a prominent businessman, Alexander began his political career while in Missouri, and was elected to the Chillicothe City Council in 1886; he became Mayor in 1887. In 1891, he left his success in Chillicothe for the gold mines of Alaska, stopping permanently in Idaho. Later in Boise, he established his own clothing store, eventually opening stores in Twin Falls, Burley, and Blackfoot. Alexander's success in business was repeated when he entered the political arena. He was elected Mayor of Boise in 1897 and 1901. By 1908, he had gathered enough support to run in the gubernatorial race, but lost. He successfully ran in 1914 to become the first Jewish governor in United States history. Alexander was reelected in 1916. He was the Progressive Era governor who led Idaho through World War I and the Prohibition period.

Moses Alexander died on January 4, 1934 at the age of 78. His third Alexander Men's Store building in Boise, Idaho still stands on the corner of 9th and Idaho Streets. Calvin Cobb, the publisher of the Idaho Statesman and one who had often opposed Alexander's politics, wrote of him on the occasion of his death:

In a sense, Governor Alexander was one of the last remaining links which bound the past with the present, for most of those prominent men with whom he worked to transform Boise from a rude, frontier post to a bustling, modern and beautiful little city that preceded him in death. The earliest pioneers had come before them. They took up the work of the community where the first pioneers left off and the debt we owe them cannot be estimated.