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Senate Years of Service: 1959-1968 Party: Democrat
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BARTLETT, Edward Lewis (Bob), a Delegate from the Territory of Alaska and a Senator from Alaska; born in Seattle,
King County, Wash., April 20, 1904; attended the University of Washington 1922-1924, and
University of Alaska 1924-1925; reporter, Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 1925-1933;
secretary to Delegate Anthony J. Dimond of Alaska 1933-1934; gold miner in Alaska 1936-1939;
chairman of the Unemployment Compensation Commission of Alaska 1937-1939; appointed
secretary of Alaska by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 30, 1939, and served until his
resignation on February 6, 1944, to become a candidate for Delegate to Congress; member of the
Alaska War Council 1942-1944; elected as a Democrat, a Delegate to the Seventy-ninth and to the
six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1959); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1958 having become a candidate for the United States Senate; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate on November 25, 1958, and upon the admission of Alaska as a State into the Union on
January 3, 1959, drew the two-year term beginning on that day and ending January 3, 1961; reelected
in 1960 and again in 1966, and served from January 3, 1959, until his death in Cleveland, Ohio,
December 11, 1968; interment in Northern Lights Memorial Park, Fairbanks, Alaska.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
Naske, Claus M. Edward Lewis Bob Bartlett of Alaska: A Life in Politics.
Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1979.
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