| LC control no. | n 80139328 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bartlett, Edward Lewis, 1904-1968 |
| Variant(s) | Bartlett, E. L. (Edward Lewis), 1904-1968 Bartlett, Bob, 1904-1968 |
| Birth date | 1904-04-20 |
| Death date | 1968-12-11 |
| Place of birth | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Place of death | Cleveland (Ohio) |
| Affiliation | University of Washington University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner Unemployment Compensation Commission of Alaska Alaska. Secretary United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators |
| Found in | U.S. 91st Congress, 1st session, 1969. Memorial services ... in eulogy of Edward Lewis Bartlett ... 1969. OCLC 49840419: News from E.L. (Bob) Bartlett, 19?? Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, March 30, 2017: (Bartlett, Edward Lewis (Bob), Senate years of service: 1959-1968, 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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