Jay Sterner Hammond was an American Republican politician who was Governor of Alaska from 1974 to 1982. He was born in Troy, New York in 1922. He studied petroleum engineering at Penn State University, where he was a member of Triangle Fraternity. He later served as a Marine Corps fighter pilot in World War II, and in China, until 1946. Wikipedia
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