Alaska Statehood - Proponents of Alaska Statehood

Proponents of Alaska Statehood

  • Wayne N. Aspinall — Representative from Colorado (1949–1973)
  • Robert Atwood — editor and publisher of the Anchorage Times
  • Bob Bartlett — delegate to the US House of Representatives from the Alaska Territory (1945–1959) and Senator from Alaska (1959–1968)
  • Frank Church — Senator from Idaho (1957–1981)
  • Anthony Dimond — delegate to the US House of Representatives from the Alaska Territory (1933–1945)
  • William Allen Egan — Governor of Alaska (1959–1966, 1970–1974)
  • Edna Ferber — novelist, author and playwright
  • Ernest Gruening — Governor of the Alaska Territory (1939–1953) and Senator from Alaska (1959–1969)
  • Benjamin Franklin Heintzleman — Governor of the Alaska Territory (1953–1957)
  • Walter Joseph Hickel — Governor of Alaska (1966–1969, 1990–1994) and Secretary of the Interior (1969–1970)
  • Henry M. Jackson — Representative from Washington (1941–1953) and Senator from Washington (1953–1983)
  • William F. Knowland — Senator from California (1945–1959)
  • Richard L. Neuberger — Senator from Oregon (1955–1960)
  • Elmer E. Rasmuson — Alaskan banker and philanthropist and Mayor of Anchorage (1964–1967)
  • Ralph Julian Rivers — Representative from Alaska (1959–1966)
  • Fred Andrew Seaton — Senator from Nebraska (1951–1952) and Secretary of the Interior (1956–1961)
  • Charles Willis Snedden — publisher of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  • Ted Stevens — former United States senator
  • Michael Anthony Stepovich — Governor of the Alaska Territory (1957–1958)
  • Nathan Farragut Twining — Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force (1953–1957) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1957–1960)
  • James Wickersham — district judge and delegate to the US House of Representatives from the Alaska Territory (1909–1917, 1919, 1921, 1931–1933)

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