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the third Libertarian to be elected to a U.S. state legislature (all from Alaska to that point), later became the party's vice presidential and presidential nominee Edward Marsden: 1869: 1932: Saxman, Metlakatla, Sitka: Tsimshian Presbyterian missionary and activist, first Alaska Native to be ordained Robert Marshall: 1901: 1939: Wiseman
Elizabeth Peratrovich (née Elizabeth Jean Wanamaker; Tlingit: Ḵaax̲gal.aat [qʰaχ.ɡʌɬ.ʔatʰ]; [1] July 4, 1911 – December 1, 1958) [2] was an American civil rights activist, Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, [3] and a Tlingit who worked for equality on behalf of Alaska Natives. [4] In the 1940s, her advocacy was ...
World War I. Ernest Henry Gruening (/ ˈɡriːnɪŋ / GREEN-ing; February 6, 1887 – June 26, 1974) was an American journalist and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Gruening was the governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senator from Alaska from 1959 until 1969. Born in New York City, Gruening ...
Residence. Governor's Mansion. Education. Misericordia University (BA) University of Alaska Fairbanks (MEd) Michael James Dunleavy (born May 5, 1961) is an American educator and politician serving since 2018 as the 12th governor of Alaska. A Republican, he was a member of the Alaska Senate from 2013 to 2018.
University of Alaska, Fairbanks (BA) Edward Lewis " Bob " Bartlett (April 20, 1904 – December 11, 1968), was an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party. He served as a U.S. Senator. A key fighter for Alaska statehood, Bartlett served as the Secretary of Alaska Territory from 1939 to 1945, in Congress from 1945 to 1959 as a ...
3, including John H. Dimond. Profession. Judge, lawyer, schoolteacher. Anthony Joseph Dimond (November 30, 1881 – May 28, 1953) was an American Democratic Party politician who was the Alaska Territory Delegate in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1945. Dimond was also an early champion of Alaska statehood.
Alaska was officially made the 49th state in January 1959. Russia sold the territory known as Alaska to the US in 1687, but Indigenous people have been living on that land for thousands of years.
Sharon Cissna (born 1942), politician. Jordan Clarke (born 1990), track and field shot putter. Don Clary (born 1957), long-distance runner. Tyler Collins, actor. Michelle Coombs, geologist living in Anchorage and working at Alaska Volcano Observatory. Stan Cornelius (1941–2005), country musician, lawyer.