Family
Born in Juneau, Dennis is the son of William Allen Egan, who was a legislator of the Alaska Territory, the presiding officer of Alaska's constitutional convention and the state's first governor, and Neva Egan, who was Alaska's first First Lady. He lived in Washington, D.C. while his father lobbied for full Alaskan statehood. Dennis, then eleven years old, appeared on I've Got a Secret when Alaska entered the Union in 1959.
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