Alaska Officials Prior to Statehood

• Russian Chief Managers
• Military Commanders
• Territorial Governors, appointed by the President
• Delegates in Congress

Russian Chief Managers

• 1790-1818 Alexsandr Andreevich Baranov
• Jan.-Oct.1818 Leontii Andreianovich Gagemeister (originally Ludwig Von Hagemeister[German])
• 1818-20 Semen Ivanovich Ianovskii
• 1820-25 Matvei I. Murav'ev
• 1825-30 Peter Egorovich Chistiakov
• 1830-35 Baron Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel (originally Wrangell [German])
• 1835-40 Ivan Antonovich Kupreianov
• 1840-45 Adolph Karlovich Etolin (originally Arvid Adolf Etholen [Swedish/Finnish])
• 1845-50 Mikhail Dmitrievich Teben'kov
• 1850-53 Nikolai Iakovlevich Rozenberg
• 1853-54 Alexsandr Il'ich Rudakov
• 1854-59 Stepan Vasil'evich Voevodskii
• 1859-63 Ivan Vasilevich Furugelm (originally Johan Hampus Furuhjelm [Finnish])
• 1863-67 Prince Dmitri Petrovich Maksutov

All names here are transliterated in the modified Library of Congress system used by Richard A. Pierce in Russian America: a biographical dictionary, Limestone Press, 1990. Previously these names have been transliterated or anglicized under a variety of methods, so some historical references and Alaskan place namesALASKA OFFICIALS PRIOR may demonstrate different spellings. For example, Baranof, Yanovski, Kupreanov, Rosenberg, etc.

Military Commanders

• 1867-68 Brevet Major Gen. Jeff C. Davis
• 1869-70 Captain G. K. Brady (U.S. Army)
• 1870 Major J. C. Tidball
• 1877 U.S. Troops withdraw leaving M. C. Berry, customs collector, the only federal official in Alaska.
• 1879-1880 Captain L. S. Beardslee (U.S. Navy), Sloop Jamestown
• 1880 Henry Glass (U.S. Navy) assumed command from Beardslee.
• 1880-81 Edward P. Lull (U.S. Navy), the Wachusett
• 1882-83 Comm. E. C. Merriman (U.S. Navy)
• 1883-84 Comm. J. B. Coghlan (U.S. Navy), the Adams
• 1884-86 Lt. Comm. Henry E. Nichols ALASKA OFFICIALS PRIOR (U.S. Navy). the Pinta

Territorial Governors, appointed by the President

• 7/4/1884-5/7/1885 John H. Kinkead - by President Arthur
• 5/7/1885-4/20/1889 Alfred P. Swineford - by President Cleveland
• 4/20/1889-6/18/1893 Lyman E. Knapp - by President Harrison
• 6/18/1893-6/23/1897 James Sheakley - by President Cleveland
• 6/23/1897-3/2/1906 John G. Brady - by President Roosevelt
• 3/2/1906-5/20/1909 Wilford B. Hoggatt - by President Roosevelt
• 5/20/1909-4/18/1913 Walter E. Clark - by President Taft
• 4/18/1913-4/12/1918 John F. A. Strong - by President Wilson
• 4/12/1918-6/16/1921 Thomas Riggs, Jr. - by President Wilson
• 6/21/1921-8/16/1925 Scott C. Bone - by President Harding
• 8/16/1925-4/19/1933 George A. Parks - President Coolidge
• 4/19/1933-12/6/1939 John W. Troy - by President Roosevelt
• 12/6/1939-4/10/1953 Ernest Gruening - by President Roosevelt
• 4/10/1953-1/3/1957 B. Frank Heintzleman - by President Eisenhower
• 4/8/1957-8/9/1958 Mike Stepovich- by President Eisenhower

• Statehood bill passed Congress 7/7/58. Statehood official 1/3/59.
• * Stepovich resigned; Waino E. Hendrickson, Secretary of Alaska, served as ALASKA OFFICIALS PRIOR acting governor until William Egan too office on 1/3/59

Delegates in Congress

In 1906 Congress authorized Alaska to send a voteless delegate to the House of Representatives. Serving in that capacity were:

• 1906-07 Frank H. Waskey
• 1907-09 Thomas Cale
• 1909-17 James Wickersham
• 1917 Charles A. Sulzer (contested election)
• 1918 James Wickersham (seated as delegate
• 1919 Charles A. Sulzer (died before taking office)
• 1919 George Grigsby (appointed)
• 1921 James Wickersham (seated as delegate, having contested the 1919 election and resulting appointment)
• 1921-30 Dan E. Sutherland
• 1931-33 James Wickersham
• 1933-44 Anthony J. Dimond
• 1944-58 E.L. Bartlett