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. - -Biographical
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