Alexander Bell (1801–1871) was a Los Angeles merchant both before and after that city became a part of the United States. He was elected to the first Los Angeles Common Council, the city's governing body, on July 1, 1850, but resigned on September 26 of that year. Bell was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, on January 9, 1801, and in 1823 he emigrated to Mexico, where he lived until he came to Los Angeles in 1842. Two years later, he married Maria de las Nieves Guirado Botello. Bell died in Los Angeles, on July 24, 1871.
