Bob Bartlett was born in Seattle, Washington in 1904. His parents, Klondike pioneers, brought him to the Alaskan mining town of Fairbanks the next year, and when he was only two years old Congress passed the bill which gave Alaska an elected delegate to Congress. The second Organic Act of 1912 revised Alaska's relation to the United States but still made no provision for statehood, an elected governor, or tax reform. Bartlett was, however, growing up along with the Territory. xroads.virginia.edu