Informal legislative planning session
Collection Name
Ernest H. Gruening Papers, 1914-[1959-1969] 1974
Identifier
UAF-1976-21-55149
Title
Informal legislative planning session
Description
Verso : William Earnest Beltz , a 47-year-old native of the Eskimo Village of Unalakleet , is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated transition from territorial to State government . Beltz's father , a native of Pennsylvania , went to Alaska during the Yukon gold rush . His mother was an Eskimo . A carpenter by trade , Senator Beltz has been active in labor affairs and in the welfare problems of the native Eskimo , Indian and Aleut populations . Senator Beltz served for one year in the 1949 Territorial house of Representatives , and has been in the Senate since then. He is married to a former New York State girl and is the father of three children . Legislative plans are discussed informally after a meeting of the Alaskan State Senate . Left to right are Senator Beltz ; Senator Irene E . Ryan of Anchorage , and Warren A. Taylor , Speaker of the Alaskan State House of Representatives .
Subject.TGM
Legislators Meetings Indigenous peoples
Subject.Local
Alaska Natives--Northern Alaska--Inupiaq
Personal Name
Beltz, William E. Ryan, Irene Esther Irvine, 1909-1997 Taylor, Warren A.
Location
Juneau (Alaska)
Region
Southeast Alaska
Time Period
1939 to 1959
Type
Collection Image (Photographs)
Ordering & Use
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Holding Institution
Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu --(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808.
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