Ralph J. Rivers Papers 1959-1966

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Ralph J. Rivers Papers 1959-1966

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Ralph Julian Rivers (1903-1976) was Alaska's first U.S. Representative to Congress. He also served as an Alaska Territorial Senator, Second Vice-President of the Alaska Constitutional Convention, and U.S. Representative-elect under the Alaska-Tennessee Plan. The bulk of the materials relate to Rivers' eight year tenure as Alaska's first United States Representative in Congress from the then-new state of Alaska. The collection includes copies of House Bills and Resolutions as well as reports, new releases, notes, correspondence, memoranda, petitions, newsclippings, photographs, publications, ballots, audio recordings, films and scrapbooks.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska Polar Regions Collections & Archives

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Alaska. Territorial Legislature

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Rivers, Ralph Julian, 1903-1976

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Ralph Julian Rivers was a lawyer who became Alaska's first U.S. Representative to Congress. He came to Alaska with his parents and younger brother, Victor C. Rivers, in 1906, and received his early schooling in the mining town of Flat. He was admitted to the bar in 1931 and practiced law at Fairbanks. He was elected Attorney General of Alaska, Mayor of Fairbanks, a member of the Alaska Territorial Senate, second Vice President of the Alaska Constitution Convention, and U.S. Representative-Elect ...

Rivers, Victor C. (Victor Claudius), 1905-1959

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Alaska. Constitutional Convention (1955-1956)

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The Alaska Constitutional Convention was called at the University of Alaska, November, 1955, to draft a constitution to be used upon Alaska's statehood. From the description of Papers of Alaska Constitutional Convention [microform], 1955-1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 309411125 From the description of Records, 1955-1956. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 42929694 ...