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Robert Bloom —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Merchant;
clothing
business; trustee, Alaska Agricultural College and School of
Mines (now University of Alaska), 1921-25.
Jewish.
Burial
location unknown.
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Leopold David (1878-1924) —
of Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1878.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer; mayor
of Anchorage, Alaska, 1920-23; trustee, Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines (now University of Alaska), 1923-25.
Jewish.
Died, of heart
failure, November
21, 1924 (age about 46
years).
Interment at Anchorage
Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Ernest Henry Gruening (1887-1974) —
also known as Ernest Gruening; "Mr.
Alaska" —
of Juneau,
Alaska.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
6, 1887.
Son of Emil Gruening and Phebe (Fridenberg) Gruening.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor; writer; Governor of
Alaska Territory, 1939-53; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alaska Territory, 1956;
U.S.
Senator from Alaska, 1959-69; defeated, 1968; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska, 1960,
1972;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Alaska, 1972.
Jewish. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Leader in drive to gain statehood for Alaska. One of only two
Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave
President Johnson authority to escalate the Vietnam War.
Died of cancer in
Washington,
D.C., June 26,
1974 (age 87 years, 140
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Zachariah Joshua Loussac (1883-1965) —
also known as Z. J. Loussac —
of Anchorage,
Alaska; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Pokrov, Russia,
July
13, 1883.
Democrat. Druggist;
philanthropist; mayor
of Anchorage, Alaska, 1948-51; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alaska Territory, 1952.
Jewish ancestry. Member, Rotary.
The Z. J. Loussac Public Library in Anchorage is named for
him.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., March 15,
1965 (age 81 years, 245
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Angelus
Memorial Park, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Richard Carl Rothenburg (1868-1949) —
also known as R. C. Rothenburg —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Born in Germany,
1868.
Republican. Member of Alaska
territorial House of Representatives 4th District, 1929-30; Speaker
of Alaska Territory House of Representatives, 1929-30.
Jewish.
Died in 1949
(age about
81 years).
Interment at Clay
Street Cemetery, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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