John Alexander was an Australian politician. He was a merchant who ran a firm in partnership with John Gilchrist and later with John Watt. He served in the

New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ...

from 1856 to 1861. By the time he left the Council he was a

squatter Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there ...

and acquired extensive pastoral land.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Alexander, John Year of birth unknown Year of death missing Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council