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ALASKA - Frequently Asked Questions About Alaska
Alaska Officials Prior to Statehood
Russian Chief Managers
- 1790-1818 Alexsandr Andreevich Baranov
- Jan.-Oct.1818 Leontii Andreianovich Gagemeister (originally Ludwig
Von Hagemeister[German])
- 1818-20 Semen Ivanovich Ianovskii
- 1820-25 Matvei I. Murav'ev
- 1825-30 Peter Egorovich Chistiakov
- 1830-35 Baron Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel (originally Wrangell [German])
- 1835-40 Ivan Antonovich Kupreianov
- 1840-45 Adolph Karlovich Etolin (originally Arvid Adolf Etholen [Swedish/Finnish])
- 1845-50 Mikhail Dmitrievich Teben'kov
- 1850-53 Nikolai Iakovlevich Rozenberg
- 1853-54 Alexsandr Il'ich Rudakov
- 1854-59 Stepan Vasil'evich Voevodskii
- 1859-63 Ivan Vasilevich Furugelm (originally Johan Hampus Furuhjelm
[Finnish])
- 1863-67 Prince Dmitri Petrovich Maksutov
All names here are transliterated in the modified Library of Congress
system used by Richard A. Pierce in Russian America: a biographical dictionary,
Limestone Press, 1990. Previously these names have been transliterated
or anglicized under a variety of methods, so some historical references
and Alaskan place names
may demonstrate different spellings. For example, Baranof, Yanovski, Kupreanov,
Rosenberg, etc.
Military Commanders
- 1867-68 Brevet Major Gen. Jeff C. Davis
- 1869-70 Captain G. K. Brady (U.S. Army)
- 1870 Major J. C. Tidball
- 1877 U.S. Troops withdraw leaving M. C. Berry, customs collector,
the only federal official in Alaska.
- 1879-1880 Captain L. S. Beardslee (U.S. Navy), Sloop Jamestown
- 1880 Henry Glass (U.S. Navy) assumed command from Beardslee.
- 1880-81 Edward P. Lull (U.S. Navy), the Wachusett
- 1882-83 Comm. E. C. Merriman (U.S. Navy)
- 1883-84 Comm. J. B. Coghlan (U.S. Navy), the Adams
- 1884-86 Lt. Comm. Henry E. Nichols (U.S.
Navy). the Pinta
Territorial Governors, Appointed
by the President
- 7/4/1884-5/7/1885 John H. Kinkead - by President Arthur
- 5/7/1885-4/20/1889 Alfred P. Swineford - by President Cleveland
- 4/20/1889-6/18/1893 Lyman E. Knapp - by President Harrison
- 6/18/1893-6/23/1897 James Sheakley - by President Cleveland
- 6/23/1897-3/2/1906 John G. Brady - by President Roosevelt
- 3/2/1906-5/20/1909 Wilford B. Hoggatt - by President Roosevelt
- 5/20/1909-4/18/1913 Walter E. Clark - by President Taft
- 4/18/1913-4/12/1918 John F. A. Strong - by President Wilson
- 4/12/1918-6/16/1921 Thomas Riggs, Jr. - by President Wilson
- 6/21/1921-8/16/1925 Scott C. Bone - by President Harding
- 8/16/1925-4/19/1933 George A. Parks - President Coolidge
- 4/19/1933-12/6/1939 John W. Troy - by President Roosevelt
- 12/6/1939-4/10/1953 Ernest Gruening - by President Roosevelt
- 4/10/1953-1/3/1957 B. Frank Heintzleman - by President Eisenhower
- 4/8/1957-8/9/1958 Mike Stepovich* - by President Eisenhower
- Statehood bill passed Congress 7/7/58. Statehood official 1/3/59.
- * Stepovich resigned; Waino E. Hendrickson, Secretary of Alaska,
served as acting
governor until William Egan too office on 1/3/59
Delegates in Congress
- In 1906 Congress authorized Alaska to send a voteless delegate
to the House of Representatives. Serving in that capacity were:
- 1906-07 Frank H. Waskey
- 1907-09 Thomas Cale
- 1909-17 James Wickersham
- 1917 Charles A. Sulzer (contested election)
- 1918 James Wickersham (seated as delegate
- 1919 Charles A. Sulzer (died before taking office
- 1919 George Grigsby (appointed)
- 1921 James Wickersham (seated as delegate, having contested
the 1919 election and resulting appointment)
- 1921-30 Dan E. Sutherland
- 1931-33 James Wickersham
- 1933-44 Anthony J. Dimond
- 1944-58 E.
L. Bartlett
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Source : Alaska Blue Book 1993-94, 11th
ed., Juneau, Department of Education, Division of State Libraries, Archives
& Museums.
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