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Edward Lewis Bartlett (1904-1968) —
also known as E. L. 'Bob' Bartlett —
of Juneau,
Alaska.
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., April 20,
1904.
Son of Edgar C. Bartlett and Ida F. (Doverspike) Bartlett.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; gold miner; secretary
of Alaska Territory, 1939-44; resigned 1944; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Alaska Territory, 1945-59; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska Territory, 1948,
1956;
U.S.
Senator from Alaska, 1959-68; died in office 1968; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska, 1960.
Member, Elks.
Died, following heart
surgery, in the Cleveland Clinic hospital,
Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, December
11, 1968 (age 64 years, 235
days).
Interment at Northern
Lights Memorial Park, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Anthony Joseph Dimond (1881-1953) —
also known as Anthony J. Dimond; Tony
Dimond —
of Valdez, Valdez-Cordova
census area, Alaska; Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Palatine Bridge, Montgomery
County, N.Y., November
30, 1881.
Son of John P. Dimond and Emily (Sullivan) Dimond.
Democrat. Prospector; lawyer; mayor of
Valdez, Alaska, 1920-22, 1925-32; member of Alaska
territorial senate 3rd District, 1923-26, 1929-32; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Alaska Territory, 1933-45; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska Territory, 1936,
1940;
district judge in Alaska, 1945-53; died in office 1953.
Catholic.
Member, Elks; Eagles; Moose.
Died in Anchorage,
Alaska, May 28,
1953 (age 71 years, 179
days).
Interment at Anchorage
Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Charles F. Herbert (1910-2003) —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, February
17, 1910.
Democrat. Mining engineer;
member of Alaska
territorial House of Representatives 4th District, 1941-42;
Alaska Commissioner of Natural Resources.
Died in Kailua-Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii
County, Hawaii, September
3, 2003 (age 93 years, 198
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in Pacific Ocean.
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Edward M. Keys —
of Healy Fork, Denali
Borough, Alaska.
Republican. Miner; member of Alaska
territorial House of Representatives 4th District, 1923-24;
trustee, Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines (now
University of Alaska), 1923-28.
Burial
location unknown.
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Austin Eugene Lathrop (1865-1950) —
also known as Austin E. Lathrop; Cap
Lathrop —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska; Cordova, Valdez-Cordova
census area, Alaska.
Born in Lapeer, Lapeer
County, Mich., October
5, 1865.
Son of Eugene Vernon Lathrop and Sarah (Parsons) Lathrop.
Owner of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper,
a chain of movie
theaters, two radio
stations, two banks, and
the Healy River Coal Company; trustee, Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines, 1933-35, continuing as regent,
University of Alaska, 1935-50.
Killed in a railroad
accident, at Healy, Denali
Borough, Alaska, July 26,
1950 (age 84 years, 294
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Howard Lyng (1891-1955) —
of Nome, Nome census
area, Alaska.
Born in Sand Point, Aleutians
East Borough, Alaska, May 8,
1891.
Democrat. Miner; member of Alaska
territorial House of Representatives 2nd District, 1935-36,
1939-42; Speaker
of Alaska Territory House of Representatives, 1939-40; Alaska
Territory Democratic Party chair, 1940-44; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska Territory, 1944,
1952;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Alaska Territory, 1944-52; member of Alaska
territorial senate 2nd District, 1945-46, 1949-55.
Member, Elks.
Died as the result of a fall, in
Seattle, King
County, Wash., September
20, 1955 (age 64 years, 135
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William R. Maloney (1869-1937) —
Born in Mt. Jackson, Shenandoah
County, Va., 1869.
Democrat. Miner; candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Alaska Territory, 1918.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., June 27,
1937 (age about 67
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Belle Campbell. |
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George Alexander Parks (1883-1984) —
of Juneau,
Alaska.
Born in Denver,
Colo., May 29,
1883.
Son of James Parks and Mary Leach (Ferguson) Parks.
Mining engineer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Governor of
Alaska Territory, 1925-33; vice-president, First National Bank of
Juneau.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Juneau,
Alaska, May 11,
1984 (age 100 years,
348 days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Juneau, Alaska; memorial monument at Newcomb
Park, Wasilla, Alaska.
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Raymond Robins (1873-1954) —
of Nome, Nome census
area, Alaska; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; near Brooksville, Hernando
County, Fla.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., September
17, 1873.
Progressive. Coal miner; lawyer; went to
the Klondike for the 1898 Gold Rush; pastor; social
worker; economist;
writer;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1914; commissioner of American Red Cross
mission to Russia, 1917.
Died September
26, 1954 (age 81 years, 9
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Arthur A. Shonbeck (1878-1945) —
of Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in 1878.
Democrat. Gold miner; implement
dealer; oil
business; farmer;
candidate for mayor
of Anchorage, Alaska, 1924; trustee, Alaska Agricultural College
and School of Mines (now University of Alaska), 1925-33; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska Territory, 1932,
1944;
Alaska
Territory Democratic Party chair, 1934-37.
Drowned
in a river when his pickup
truck went off the road, near Ophir, Yukon-Koyukuk
census area, Alaska, June 20,
1945 (age about 66
years).
Interment at Anchorage
Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Relatives:
Married to Ann Peckenpaugh. |
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Joseph E. Vogler (1913-1993) —
also known as Joe Vogler —
of Alaska.
Born in Barnes, Washington
County, Kan., April 24,
1913.
Lawyer;
gold miner; real estate
developer; candidate for Governor of
Alaska, 1974 (Alaskan Independence), 1982, 1986 (Alaskan
Independence).
Died in 1993
(age about
80 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Michael J. Walsh (1882-1963) —
also known as Mike Walsh —
of Nome, Nome census
area, Alaska.
Born in Balinade, County Cork, Ireland,
April
8, 1882.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; gold miner; mail
carrier; Nome city clerk, 1931-44; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska Territory, 1940,
1944;
regent, University of Alaska, 1943-59; member of Alaska
territorial House of Representatives 2nd District, 1945-46; delegate
to Alaska state constitutional convention 9th District, 1955-56;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alaska, 1960.
Died in Nome, Nome census
area, Alaska, April 1,
1963 (age 80 years, 358
days).
Interment at Belmont
Point Cemetery, Nome, Alaska.
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Relatives:
Married 1909
to W. Louise Forsythe. |
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