Morris Alexander

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Morris Alexander
Born	1877
Died	January 24, 1946
Alma mater	St. John's University
Occupation	Politician
Years active	1908-1946
Political party	South African Party
Spouse	Ruth Shechter 1908-1935 Enid Asenath Baumberg 1935-≤1946
Children	3

Morris Alexander (1877 – 1946) was a South African Jewish politician. Morris was born in 1877 in Znin, Poland to a German Jewish family. He moved to Cape Town in 1904. He founded the Jewish Board of Deputies for the Cape Colony in that same year. Morris was educated at St. John's College in Cambridge. He married a woman named Ruth Schechter in June 1907. They had three children but divorced in 1935. He later remarried, to Enid Asenath Baumberg. He was a member of the Cape of Good Hope Parliament from 1908 to 1910 and later a member of the Union of South Africa Parliament from 1910 until his death in 1946.