Bob Bartlett

Edward Lewis " Bob" Bartlett ( born April 20, 1904 in Seattle, Washington, † December 11, 1968 in Cleveland, Ohio ) was an American politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Career

Bartlett studied from 1922 to 1924 at the University of Washington and then moved to the University of Alaska, where he graduated in 1925. After studying Bartlett worked 1925-1933 as a reporter for the Fairbanks Daily News. He then worked as a secretary for the Congress delegates Anthony Dimond to 1934.

From 1936 to 1939 he studied at the Alaska Territory for gold; During this time he practiced there from 1937 from the office of Chairman of the Unemployment Compensation Commission. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Bartlett on January 30, 1939, territorial secretary, a position he held until his resignation on February 6, 1944. He also was a member from 1942 to 1944 the Alaska War Council.

From January 3rd, 1945 to January 3, 1959 Bartlett represented the Alaska Territory as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives. On November 25, 1958, he was elected to the U.S. Senate and was therefore from January 3, 1959 next to Ernest Gruening one of the first two senators for the new U.S. state of Alaska. He held until his death in 1968 this office.

In 1971, we devoted Bob Bartlett, a statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol.