Archibald Alexander

By Nicholas Tsiklauri

  • Archibald Alexander was born

    He was born in Iowa.

  • He attended Iowa State University and received a civil engineering

  • As a designer for the Marsh Engineering Company, he designed the Tidal Basin Bridge in Washington D.C. and the K street Freeway

  • He studied bridge design in London University

  • Period: to

    Alexander and his friend,George Higbee, constructed concrete bridges all over the world.

    The construction firm built: the heating plant and power station in Iowa State University, a sewage treatment plant in Grand Rapids, Michigan, an airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama, Tidal Basin bridge and seawall in Washington D.C., and Whitehurst Freeway in Washington D.C.

  • President Dwight D. Eisenhower honored Alexander with the appointment as the first Republican Territorial Governor of Virgin Islands

  • Period: to

    He was the Governor of the Virgin Islands

  • Archibald Alexander died