{{Short description|American politician (died 1938)}} {{ infobox officeholder | name = Bill Alexander | order = 3rd | office = State Treasurer of Oklahoma | governor = Robert L. Williams | term_start = January 1915 | term_end = January 1919 | predecessor = Robert Dunlop | successor = A. N. Leecraft | party = Democratic Party | birth_date = | birth_name = William Lee Alexander | birth_place = Charlotte, North Carolina, United States | death_date = {{death date|1938|10|2}} | death_place = Pryor, Oklahoma, United States }} '''William Lee "Bill" Alexander''' was an American politician who served as the Oklahoma State Treasurer from 1915 to 1919.

==Biography== William Lee "Bill" Alexander was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1872, he moved to Whitesboro, Texas, where he lived until he participated in the Land Run of 1889 in Oklahoma Territory. He was the county treasurer for Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Territory, from 1896 to 1900.<ref name="Obit">{{cite news |title=Head Of Whitaker State Home Dies of Heart Failure |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pryor-jeffersonian-obituary-for-will/183335164/ |access-date=October 20, 2025 |work=The Pryor Jeffersonian |date=October 6, 1938 |pages=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected Oklahoma State Treasurer in 1914 and served in office from 1915 to 1919, when he was succeeded by A. N. Leecraft.<ref name="1914 Results">{{cite web |title=1914-1916 Elections Results |url=https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/elections/election-results/results-prior-to-1980/1914-1916-results.pdf |website=oklahoma.gov |access-date=19 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Oklahoma History |url=http://www.odl.state.ok.us/almanac/2005/14-histry.pdf |access-date=August 8, 2024 |archive-date=February 18, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060218215829/http://www.odl.state.ok.us/almanac/2005/14-histry.pdf |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> He ran in the 1918 Oklahoma gubernatorial election, but lost the Democratic primary. He died on October 2, 1938, in Pryor, Oklahoma.<ref name="Obit" />

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