Ernest Henry Gruening (February 6, 1887-June 26, 1974) was an American journalist and Democrat who was the Governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senator from Alaska from 1959 until 1969. Born in New York City, Gruening graduated from Harvard University in 1907 and from Harvard Medical School in 1912. He then forsook medicine to pursue journalism. Initially a reporter for the "Boston American" in 1912, …

Edward Lewis "Bob" Bartlett (April 20, 1904 - December 11, 1968) was an American politician, and was a member of the Democratic Party. Bartlett was born in Seattle, Washington. After graduating from the University of Alaska in 1925, Bartlett began his career in politics. A reporter for the Fairbanks Daily News until 1933, he accepted the position of secretary to Delegate Anthony Dimond of Alaska.

George Alexander Parks (May 29 1883-May 11 1984) was an American Republican politician who was the Governor of Alaska Territory from 1925 to 1933. He was born in Denver, Colorado. Parks died at the advanced age of 100 in 1984. When he died he was the earliest living governor of any US state, after his death, the title went to Alfred M. Landon who would eventually also become a centenarian. The Parks Highway (Alaska Route 3) which runs from Anchorage to Fairbanks, …

Anthony Joseph Dimond was an American Democratic Party politician who was the Alaska Territory Delegate in the United States House of Representatives for many years (1933-1945). Dimond was also an early champion of Alaska statehood. Dimond was born in New York and attended Catholic schools, taught school in Montgomery County, New York (1900-1903) and was a prospector/miner in Alaska (1904-1912) before studying law and beginning practice in Valdez (1913).

Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Heintzleman (December 3 1888-June 24 1963) was an American Republican politician who was the Governor of Alaska Territory from 1953 to 1957. He was born and was buried in Fayetteville, Pennsylvania, and he died in Juneau, Alaska.

Hugh Alfred Butler (February 28, 1878 - July 1, 1954) was a Nebraska Republican politician. He was born on a farm near Missouri Valley, Iowa on February 28, 1878. He graduated from Doane College at Crete, Nebraska in 1900. he became a construction engineer with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad from 1900 to 1908. He entered into politics by become a member of the city board of Curtis, …

Walter Eli Clark (January 7 1869-February 4 1950) was an American Republican politician who was the last Governor of the District of Alaska from 1909 to 1912, and the first Governor of Alaska Territory from 1912 to 1913. He was born in Ashford, Connecticut and died in Charleston, West Virginia.

John Franklin Alexander Strong (October 15 1856-July 27 1929) was an American Democratic politician who was the Governor of Alaska Territory from 1913 to 1918. He was born in Salmon Creek, New Brunswick, Canada, and died at Seattle, Washington.

Michael Anthony Stepovich (born March 12, 1919 in Fairbanks, Alaska) is an American Republican politician who was Governor of Alaska Territory from 1957 to 1958. A Notre Dame Law School graduate, he was the first non-acting native-born Governor of Alaska. He was also a member of the territorial House of Representatives from 1950 to 1952, and of the territorial Senate in 1952. He and his wife are both Croatian/Montenegrin.

Thomas Cale (September 17, 1848-February 3, 1941) was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Territory of Alaska. He was born in Underhill, Vermont in Chittenden County. He attended the district schools and Bell Academy at Underhill Flats, Vermont. In 1866, he moved to Fort Edward, New York in Washington County. He taught school in Underhill Center, Vermont in 1867 and 1868. He moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in 1869, …

John Weir Troy (October 31 1868-May 2 1942) was an American Democratic politician who was the Governor of Alaska Territory from 1933 to 1939. He was born in Dungeness, Washington and died in Juneau, Alaska.

Charles August Sulzer was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Territory of Alaska. He was born on February 24, 1879 in Roselle, New Jersey in Union County. He attended the public schools, Pingry School in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Berkeley Academy in New York City, and the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. During the Spanish-American War, he served with the Fourth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry.

Frank Hinman Waskey was a delegate from the Territory of Alaska to the United States House of Representatives. He was born on April 20, 1875 in Lake City, Minnesota in Wabasha County. He attended the public schools of Minneapolis, moved to Alaska in February 1898, and settled in Nome. He engaged in mining and was the president of a mining company. He was also the director of a bank and a publishing company, both in Nome.

Thomas Christmas Riggs, Jr. (October 17 1873-January 16 1945) was an American Democratic politician and the Governor of Alaska Territory between 1918 to 1921. He was born in Ilchester, Maryland and died in Washington, DC. Riggs was an engineer of the Alaskan Boundary Survey, 1906-13; Governor of Alaska, 1918-21; and United States Commissioner of the IBC about 1936-45. He was educated at Princeton University.

George Barnes Grigsby was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Territory of Alaska. He was born in Sioux Falls, Dakota (now South Dakota) on December 2, 1874. He attended the public schools, the State University at Vermillion, South Dakota, and Sioux Falls University in South Dakota. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1896, and commenced practice in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Daniel Alexander Sutherland (April 17, 1869 - March 24, 1955), nicknamed "Fighting Dan", was an American businessperson and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives during the 1920s as the delegate from what was then the Alaska Territory. Sutherland was born in Pleasant Bay, Canada on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. He moved with his parents to Essex in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in 1876, …

Burke Riley was an American state legislator, lawyer, and public official on territorial, state, and national levels. He was a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention in 1955 and 1956, representing the city of Haines, Alaska, and he was a signer of the Alaska Constitution. Burke Riley was born in Swan Lake, Montana and grew up in Yakima, Washington. He graduated from Yakima Valley Junior College and attended the University of Washington, …

Samuel Balto was a Norwegian explorer and adventurer. A Sami from the town of Karasjok, he was recruited by Fridtjof Nansen for an expedition to Greenland in 1888 and participated in the first recorded crossing of the interior of the island together with Nansen and four other expedition members. Balto later emigrated to the United States with a large group of Samis hired as reindeer herdsmen in Alaska and eventually became a gold miner.

Zachariah Joshua "Zack" Loussac (1882-1965) was Mayor of Anchorage from 1948 to 1951. Zachariah Joshua Loussac was born to Jewish parents in Pokrov (Vladimir Oblast), Russia in 1882. As an engineering student, he came under scrutiny for an interest in "some of the more liberal literature of the time". In 1907, Loussac fled Czarist Russia for Alaska, living in Nome, Unalakleet, …