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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Ralph J. Rivers |
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Fairbanks, Alaska , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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April 23, 1903
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| Died | August 14, 1976
(73 years)
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| Contributor | Wishful Thinking |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Born in Seattle, King County, Wash., May 23, 1903; attended grammar school in Flat, Alaska, and Franklin High School, Seattle, Wash.; gold miner, Flat, Alaska, 1921-1923; graduated from the University of Washington at Seattle, LL.B., 1929; was admitted to Washington State bar in 1930; practiced law in Seattle, Wash., in 1930 and 1931; was admitted to the Alaska bar in 1931 and practiced law in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1931-1933; United States district attorney, fourth judicial division, district of Alaska, from 1933 until his resignation in 1944; elected attorney general of Alaska in 1945 and served until 1949; chairman of Employment Security Commission of Alaska 1950-1952; mayor of Fairbanks 1952-1954; president, League of Alaskan Cities, in 1954; member of Alaska Territorial senate in 1955; second vice president of Alaska Constitutional Convention at College, Alaska, in 1955 and 1956; delegate, Democratic National Conventions in 1960, 1964, and 1968; United States Representative-elect under Alaska-Tennessee Plan, Washington, D.C., provisional basis, pending statehood, in 1957 and 1958; upon the admission of Alaska as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1967); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; resumed law practice at Fairbanks, 1967-1969; died in Chehalis, Wash., August 14, 1976; cremated; ashes interred at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
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