Holmes Alexander
 Holmes Moss Alexander (January 29 1906 - December 5 1985) was an American historian journalist syndicated columnist and politician originally from Parkersburg West Virginia.From 1931 to 1935 Alexander was a member of the all-Democratic delegation from Baltimore County to the Maryland House of Delegates.Typical of Alexander's newspaper columns was one that he wrote on Democratic Governor George Wallace of Alabama who when term-limited in 1966 ran his wife Lurleen Burns Wallace as a surrogate gubernatorial candidate against Republican U.S. 