Famous People of Alaska

Alaska Biographies

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 took the position of secretary to delegate Anthony Dimond of Alaska. Three years later he became chairman of the Alaska Unemployment Compensation • More Bob Bartlett Books

Mark Begich - (D - AK). Born March 30, 1962). Mark is the junior US senator from Alaska and a member of the Democratic Party. A former mayor of Anchorage, he served at the Anchorage Assembly for ten years before being elected mayor in 2003. In the highly competitive 2008 Alaska Senate election, Begich defeated incumbent Ted Stevens, the senior Republican member of the Senate at that time. Mark Begich Books Benny Benson, national flag at the age of 13 years. Benny was an Indian boy who lived in an Alaskan mission at home, many years before Alaska became a state. One day his teacher told the class about a contest to make a flag for Alaska. That night, the boys and girls of the Mission House made many designs for the flag. A month later, the teacher announced: Children, the flag competition is over. Children from all over Alaska sent designs for the flag. And Benny's design won the competition! Benny's flag is a true story. - This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

For Alaskans, this story of "Benny's Flag" is part of our story. For others, it offers a unique insight into some of the values ??that shape life in the 49th state. Which other place would have a competition for schoolchildren to design the state flag? Benny, who had won the contest, wanted to express his love of Alaska in his design and so he turned to nature for his inspiration. Like the illustrator. The lush and suggestive two-page paintings bring the reader directly into Benny's world while the author narrates the story with simplicity and grace. The warmth of this beautifully illustrated book attracts both adults and children. •

On August 11, 1921 Bunnell was appointed president of the newly founded Alaska Agricultural College and the School of Mines, which later became the University of Alaska. He served in this capacity for 27 years, through a large amount of expansion, and the Alaska Constitutional Convention. • Charles E. Bunnell books

His interest in aviation went back to his childhood. Following America's entry into World War I, Eielson found his chance to become an aviator. Eielson learned to fly in the U.S. Army Air Service in 1917. In January 1918, he enlisted in the newly-prepared aviation section of the U.S.. Army Signal Corps. World War I ended while Eielson was in flight training. Hatton Aero Club starting with barnstorming This is America's immediate need for pilots and friends. • Carl Ben Eielson Books

Born in Ellinwood, Kansas, Hickel moved to Alaska in 1940 and entered the local real estate industry. By 1947, Hickel had founded a successful construction company. While some Republicans in the Alaska Territory were against statehood, Hickel joined the Democrats in the late 1940s until the 1950s. With growing popularity among Alaska's Republicans and growing political clout in Washington, Hickel has been able to travel to the US capital to hold talks with key Republicans in both the US Congress and the Eisenhower administration to talk about the statehood of Alaska. Thanks partly to his efforts, Hicke's debates with Congressional leaders led many Republicans to opt for the Alaska Statehood Act in early 1954. • Walter J. Hickel Books

Sheldon Jackson was born in 1834 in Minaville, Florida, in Montgomery County, New York. He completed the Union College in 1855 and the Princeton Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church in 1858. He became ordained Presbyterian. At the beginning of his extensive missionary career, Reverend Jackson initially worked in the north-central and western United States, which were still large and sparsely populated areas during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and subsequent years. His work there helped to found dozens of new congregation churches. An area of ??the United States that was even more challenging awaited him. • Sheldon Jackson books

His Indian leader in southeastern Alaska was Chief Kowee. Kowee is credited with having discovered much of the Juneau area. Joe and Richard were sent by Kowee, a Sitka-based entrepreneur, George Pilz. Joe and Richard exchanged most of their food rations for hoochinoo (alcoholic drinks) with the natives. Needless to say, the prospectors have achieved nothing. When they returned empty-handed to Pilz, he immediately sent them back to the Juneau area. There, Kowee took her over the Gold Creek (which is now adjacent to the federal building of the United States) to Silver Bow Basin. Today, a creek on Douglas Island is called Kowee Creek. After the discovery of gold in Juneau, Joe and Richard returned about 1000 pounds of gold ore to Sitka. • Joe Juneau books

Kilcher debuted on February 28, 1995 with the album "Pieces of You", which became one of the best-selling debut albums of all time and became platinum twelve times. A single from the album "Who Will Save Your Soul" reached # 11 on the Billboard Hot 100; two others, "You Were Meant for Me" and "Foolish Games", both reached # 2 and were listed on Billboard's 1997 singles chart. During her career she has released several albums, often switching between the work on her albums. "Perfectly Clear," her first country record, was released in 2008 by The Valory Music Co. It was ranked # 1 on the US Billboard Top Country album charts and featured three singles, "Stronger Woman," "I Do," and "Til It Feels Like Fraud." Jewel released their first independent album Lullaby in May 2009. • Jewel Kilcher Books • Jewel Discography

London's mother, Flora Wellman, a music teacher and spiritualist who claimed to channel the spirit of an Indian chief, became pregnant, presumably because of her association with William Chaney, an astrologer with whom she lived in San Francisco. According to Flora Wellman's report, recorded in the San Francisco Chronicle of June 4, 1875, Chaney demanded an abortion, and when she refused, rejected the responsibility for the child. Desperately, she shot herself. She was not seriously injured, but she was temporarily deranged. After giving birth, Flora gave the baby to ex-slave Virginia Prentiss, who was to remain an important maternal figure throughout her life in London. • Jack London books

Environmental writer and professor Worster (Dust Bowl, Nature's Economy) presents the inspiring story of John Muir, who rebelled against orthodoxy and became one of the founders of modern environmentalism. Born in 1838 in Scotland, Muir's family emigrated to Wisconsin when he was ten. For the next 12 years, he labored on his family's farm, then left home to become a machinist and enroll in a University of Wisconsin botany course. His main interest, however, was exploring the remaining wilderness of the U.S. Finally settling in California, Muir mastered botany on his own, and by 1871 was providing the Smithsonian with regular reports of his findings. While continuing his travels, including several trips to Alaska, Muir wrote articles for local and national journals urging conservation, and was elected the first president of the Sierra Club in 1892, a position he would hold for the rest of his life. Worster's thorough, involving biography sets Muir's adventurous story against the technical and scientific culture of the day, featuring some of the period's leading thinkers and doers-including Ralph Waldo Emerson and President Theodore Roosevelt-taking on environmental issues that resonate now more than ever. • John Muir Books

Murkowski was born in Ketchikan, Alaska to Nancy R. Gore and Frank Murkowski. Her paternal grandfather was Polish descent and her mother's side was Irish. As a child, she and her family are all over the state. Frank Murkowski worked in the banking industry until he was elected to the United States. Senate in 1980. Lisa earned a B.A. in Economics from Georgetown University in 1980, and a Juris Doctor from Willamette University's College of Law in 1985. She is a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority.

She became a member of the Alaska Bar Association in 1987. She was an attorney in Anchorage, Alaska from 1985 to 1998. She also served, from 1990 to 1991, on the mayor's task force on the homeless. • Lisa Murkowski Books

The Palins live in Wasilla with their five children, including a US Army son and a grandson. They enjoy a large family in Alaska and the Lower 48. • More Sarah Palin Books

Redington was born on February 1, 1917 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, and lived there until he was six years old. His mother left shortly after his birth and he grew up with his father and his brothers James and Ray. Joe Redingtons father was a worker who worked as a rancher in the oil fields and even traveled for two years with Irish gypsies. That's why Joe went to school in many different places. He attended school in Spearman, Texas, Fairberry, Nebraska, Aurora, South Dakota and Geary, Oklahoma. After living in Jersey City, New Jersey for a year, they settled on a farm in 1930 in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania.

In 1940, Redington joined the United States Army, and joined the 6th Field Artillery at Fort Hoyle, Maryland. He was later transferred to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he became part of the infantry and was trained at the Field Artillery Jump School. He was assigned to the Pacific Theater during the Second World War and was part of the Special Assault Troops. He was released from Fort Dix, New Jersey after the war and returned to Pennsylvania. • Joe Redington, Sr Books