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Clergy Politicians in Alaska

Robert Rolland Armstrong (1910-1995) — also known as R. Rolland Armstrong — of Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska; Anchorage, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska; Sitka, Alaska; Roswell, Chaves County, N.M. Born in Grapeville, Westmoreland County, Pa., October 21, 1910. Ordained minister; delegate to Alaska state constitutional convention, 1955-56. Presbyterian. Member, Rotary. Died December 16, 1995 (age 85 years, 56 days). Interment at South Park Cemetery, Roswell, N.M.   Relatives: Son of Robert Armstrong and Charlotte (Kinnear) Armstrong; married, December 3, 1938, to Anne Catherine Ratcliff.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   John Green Brady (1848-1918) — also known as John G. Brady — of Alaska. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., May 25, 1848. Republican. Missionary; co-founder of the school that later became Sheldon Jackson College, in Sitka, Alaska; merchant; Governor of Alaska District, 1897-1906; forced to resign as governor in 1906, after an inquiry about his involvement with the Reynolds-Alaska Development Company. Presbyterian. Ill with diabetes, he suffered a stroke and died in Sitka, Alaska, December 17, 1918 (age 70 years, 206 days). Interment at Sitka National Cemetery, Sitka, Alaska.   Relatives: Adoptive son of John Green; married 1887 to Elizabeth Patton.   The World War II Liberty ship SS John G. Brady (built 1943 at Portland, Oregon; scrapped 1960) was named for him.   Epitaph: "A Life Ruled By Faith In God And Man."   See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Raymond Robins (1873-1954) — of Nome, Nome census area, Alaska; Chicago, Cook County, Ill.; near Brooksville, Hernando County, Fla. Born in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., September 17, 1873. Progressive. Coal miner; lawyer; went to the Klondike for the 1898 Gold Rush; pastor; social worker; economist; writer; candidate for U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1914; commissioner of American Red Cross mission to Russia, 1917. Died September 26, 1954 (age 81 years, 9 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Married 1905 to Margaret Dreier.   See also Wikipedia article

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