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The Governor. To Alaskans who pine for the old order, and to those who long for something new, one man symbolizes the Territory's turbulent stirrings. Throughout his 7½ years in office, chunky, jug-eared Dr. Ernest Gruening, 60, Alaska's New Dealish Territorial Governor, has been...
Governor Gruening (pronounced greening) was born (1887) in New York City. His father, Dr. Emil Gruening, a famous physician, wanted his only son to be a doctor. At Connecticut's Hotchkiss School, and later at Harvard, Ernest Gruening had agreed wholeheartedly. But during three years at Harvard Medical School...
Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Territorial Governor of Alaska in 1939, chunky, mercurial Ernest Gruening has campaigned vehemently for the abolition of his office. Last week, testifying at a congressional hearing on Alaskan statehood, he reiterated his reasons. Alaska, he said, can never really develop until it becomes...
At one point he was asked to comment on a previous witness' statement: "What Alaska needs is white women and roads." Governor Gruening laughed, said he thought that women would come north if roads and other facilities for civilized living were available. Said a committee member, Nevada's...
There were other arguments over Alaskan statehood to be considered. Some cannery and mining interests in Alaska were quietly opposing it; many a member of Gruening's opposition cried that the territory would be unable to support itself.