Bob Atwood
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Robert Bruce Atwood was an American journalist who served as the long-time editor and publisher of the Anchorage Times. He was also an early advocate of Alaska statehood.
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Bob Atwood (top) unfurls the 49-star U.S. flag following President Dwight D. Eisenhower's signing of Alaska's statehood proclamation, January 3, 1959
Ralph Rivers
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Ralph Julian Rivers was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the first United States representative from Alaska, serving from statehood in 1959 to his resignation in 1966 followi
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…finish to the fight for Alaskan statehood. On January 3, 1959, Atwood was present (along with Senators Bob Bartlett and Ernest Gruening, Representative Ralph Julian Rivers and Territorial Governors Waino Hendrickson and Mike Stepovich) in the Cabinet Room when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the proclamation that…
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