John Franklin Alexander Strong

John Franklin Alexander Strong ( * October 15, 1856 in Salmon Creek, New Brunswick, † July 27, 1929 in Seattle, Washington ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and Governor of the Alaska Territory.

Born in what is now Canada John Strong is a graduate of a normal school in New Brunswick and worked in the episode for a long time as a teacher. To 1889, he moved to British Columbia and made it his first wife, with whom he had children, back, without being divorced. A little later he settled down in Washington State and worked as editor of the newspaper " Whatcom County Independent". In 1896 he married his second wife Annie in Tacoma, a concert pianist, which he was the de facto bigamist.

The Klondike Gold Rush brought him to go to Alaska. There, he worked in various cities in journalism: from 1897 in Skagway from 1898 meanwhile in Dawson in the Yukon Territory, 1899 in Nome, in 1907 in Katalla and from 1910 in Iditarod. After the Iditarod Nugget was published in August 1911 for the last time, Strong went with his wife on a year long trip around the world, mainly Europe. After their return, they were based in Juneau, where he introduced another newspaper on the market with the Alaska Daily Empire.

During this time, his political career began as a delegate of its territory at the Democratic National Convention of 1912 in Baltimore, was nominated at the Woodrow Wilson as a presidential candidate. Previously, he had already been considered as a Democratic candidate for the position of territorial delegates in the U.S. House of Representatives considered. In May 1913, the newly elected President Wilson appointed him to the then Governor of the Alaska Territory. This post had Strong held until April 18, 1918. He was advised by Secretary of the Interior Franklin Knight Lane of resignation after it emerged that he - was not born in Kentucky, but in Canada and had never obtained U.S. citizenship - contrary to his own previous statements. Thus, he was entitled at any time to exercise the governorship.

Strong died on 27 July 1929 in Seattle of heart failure and was cremated it.