Alexander Cooke

According to Ballotpedia, Cooke graduated from Curtis Senior High School and earned a bachelor's degree from Fairfield University in 2005.[2] He says his first job, as a teenager, was as an assistant to a maintenance worker at a low-income housing property in Washington state, and that he lived in a car during his teenage years amid family difficulties.[2] He has worked as a financial executive, says he has more than 20 years of experience in investment management and trading, and owns and runs Optimist Capital LLC in Palm Beach Gardens.[2]

According to his survey responses, Cooke served as Mayor and Councilmember of Juno Beach from 2022 to 2024.[2] He says he has a record of fighting overdevelopment and for the environment, and that he opposes spending taxpayer money on what he calls vanity projects.[2] During the campaign, he emphasized water quality, development, and housing and insurance costs.[2] He received 1.3% of the vote to Brian Mast's 53.9%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[1]