Bill Sheffield

William Jennings "Bill" Sheffield ( born June 26, 1928 in Spokane, Washington ) is a former American politician of the Democratic Party, who was from 1982 to 1986 Governor of the State of Alaska.

Career

Sheffield studied at the DeForest Training School in Chicago and then served from 1946 to 1949 in the United States Army Air Corps. From 1953 he lived in Alaska. He is the founder and managing director of Sheffield Enterprises, Inc., a hotel management company. He was also president of the Alaska Visitors Association and the Alaska Chamber of Commerce and national director of the U.S. Jaycees. Sheffield was also a member of the Anchorage City Planning Commission and the Anchorage Charter Commission. He was elected in 1981 to the Governor of Alaska, an office which he held on 6 December 1982 to 1 December 1986.

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