Opponents of Alaska Statehood
- Alaskan Independence Party
- Hugh A. Butler — Senator from Nebraska (1941–1954)
- Austin E. Lathrop — American industrialist
- Emery Fridolf Tobin — Founder/publisher of Alaska Sportsman magazine
- John E. Manders — Mayor of Anchorage (1945–1946) and tax protester
- John R. Pillion — Representative from New York (1953–1965)
- Joe Vogler — founder of the Alaskan Independence Party
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