GRUENING, Ernest, a Senator from
Alaska; born in New York City, February 6, 1887; attended Drisler School and
Sachs School; graduated from Hotchkiss School in 1903, Harvard College in 1907,
and Harvard Medical School in 1912; gave up practice of medicine to enter
journalism; reporter for Boston American in 1912 and, after a variety of jobs
with several newspapers, became managing editor of the New York Tribune in 1917;
served in the Field Artillery Corps in 1918; editor of The Nation 1920-1923;
editor, New York Post 1932-1933; adviser to the United States delegation to the
Seventh Inter-American Conference, Montevideo, Chile, in 1933; director of the
Division of Territories and Island Possessions of the Department of the Interior
1934-1939; administrator of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration
1935-1937; member of Alaska International Highway Commission 1938-1942;
appointed Governor of Alaska by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 and twice
reappointed, serving until 1953; elected to the United States Senate October 6,
1965, from the Territory of Alaska as an advocate of Alaska statehood but did
not take the oath of office and was not accorded senatorial privileges; known as
‘the father of Alaska statehood’; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate on November 25, 1958, and upon admission of Alaska as a State into the
Union on January 3, 1959, in the classification of Senators from that State,
drew the four-year term beginning on that day and ending January 3, 1963;
reelected in 1962 and served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1969;
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1968; president of investment firm;
legislative consultant; died in Washington, D.C., June 26, 1974; cremated; ashes
scattered over Mount Ernest Gruening, north of Juneau, Alaska. - -Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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