Alaska Statehood - Proponents of Alaska Statehood

Proponents of Alaska Statehood

• Wayne N. Aspinall — Representative from Colorado (1949–1973)
• Robert Atwood — editor and publisher of the Anchorage Times
• Bob Bartlett — delegate to the US House of Representatives from the Alaska Territory (1945–1959) and Senator from Alaska (1959–1968)
• Frank Church — Senator from Idaho (1957–1981)
• Anthony Dimond — delegate to the US House of Representatives from the Alaska Territory (1933–1945)
• William Allen Egan — Governor of Alaska (1959–1966, 1970–1974)
• Edna Ferber — novelist, author and playwright
• Ernest Gruening — Governor of the Alaska Territory (1939–1953) and Senator from Alaska (1959–1969)
• Benjamin Franklin Heintzleman — Governor of the Alaska Territory (1953–1957)
• Walter Joseph Hickel — Governor of Alaska (1966–1969, 1990–1994) and Secretary of the Interior (1969–1970)
• Henry M. Jackson — Representative from Washington (1941–1953) and Senator from Washington (1953–1983)
• William F. Knowland — Senator from California (1945–1959)
• Richard L. Neuberger — Senator from Oregon (1955–1960)
• Elmer E. Rasmuson — Alaskan banker and philanthropist and Mayor of Anchorage (1964–1967)
• Ralph Julian Rivers — Representative from Alaska (1959–1966)
• Fred Andrew Seaton — Senator from Nebraska (1951–1952) and Secretary of the Interior (1956–1961)
• Charles Willis Snedden — publisher of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
• Ted Stevens — former United States senator
• Michael Anthony Stepovich — Governor of the Alaska Territory (1957–1958)
• Nathan Farragut Twining — Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force (1953–1957) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1957–1960)
• James Wickersham — district judge and delegate to the US House of Representatives from the Alaska Territory (1909–1917, 1919, 1921, 1931–1933)