biography
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Bartlett, Bob
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popular name of Edward Lewis Bartlett
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| male
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| lived:
| (1904–68)
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| biography:
| Public official, born in Seattle, Washington, USA. His family moved to Fairbanks, AK soon after his birth. He worked as a newspaper reporter (1925–33) and a gold miner (1936–9). He was the secretary of Alaska (1939–44) and Alaska's territorial delegate to Congress (1945–59) before becoming one of the new state's first two US Senators (Democrat, Alaska, 1959–68). Alaska placed his statue in the US Capitol. |
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