List of Delegates
In the years following the Alaska Purchase, Alaskans held a series of political conventions focused on sending an representative to the U.S. Congress. The purpose was to lobby mainly for representation in the body, in similar fashion to the later application of the Tennessee Act to lobby for Alaskan statehood, but also for greater autonomy for Alaska. The first convention, held in 1881, saw a nonpartisan group send a Democrat (M. D. Ball) to Washington, who worked with a Republican senator (Benjamin Harrison) to craft the organic act which created the District of Alaska. Ball and several subsequent individuals were unable to convince Congress to grant the District a delegate, however. Events changed as the population of Alaska increased around the turn of the 20th century, mainly on account of inmigration due to gold rushes.
On May 7, 1906, an act of Congress gave the District of Alaska the authority to elect a Congressional delegate. On August 24, 1912, the District of Alaska was reorganized into an organized incorporated territory and continued to elect delegates until Alaska became a state in 1959.
| Delegate | Party | Years | District home |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank H. Waskey | Democratic | December 3, 1906 – March 3, 1907 | Nome |
| Thomas Cale | Independent | March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1909 | Fairbanks |
| James Wickersham | Republican | March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1917 | Fairbanks |
| Charles A. Sulzer | Democratic | March 4, 1917 – January 7, 1919 | Sulzer |
| James Wickersham | Republican | January 7, 1919 – March 3, 1919 | Fairbanks |
| Charles A. Sulzer | Democratic | March 4, 1919 – April 28, 1919 | Sulzer |
| George B. Grigsby | Democratic | June 3, 1920 – March 1, 1921 | Juneau |
| James Wickersham | Republican | March 1, 1921 – March 3, 1921 | Fairbanks |
| Dan A. Sutherland | Republican | March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1931 | Juneau |
| James Wickersham | Republican | March 4, 1931 – March 3, 1933 | Juneau |
| Anthony J. Dimond | Democratic | March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1945 | Valdez |
| Bob Bartlett | Democratic | January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1959 | Juneau |
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