Return to: The Road to Statehood - Alaska's governor, Mike Stepovich, and congressional advocates for statehood for the northern territory were jubilant after Senate passage of the Alaskan statehood bill.
By Ernest Gruening, Governor of Alaska, 1939-1953. Alaska the United States Colony. Keynote address, Alaska Constitutional Convention, University of Alaska, College, Alaska, November 9, 1955.
