District of Alaska

District of Alaska was on 17 May 1884 to 24 August 1912, the official name of Alaska. The District emerged from the Department of Alaska and was built in 1912 for Alaska Territory, the precursor of the 49th State of the United States.

First commander of the district was General Jefferson C. Davis of the United States Army. The civilian government was appointed by U.S. President Chester A. Arthur. After Alaska had been subordinate as Department from 1867 to 1884 within the jurisdiction of changing U.S. institutions such as the Ministry of Finance, it got its own government as a District.

In the time of the District in 1896 starting gold rush was the Klondike River, thousands of gold seekers lured into the Canadian Yukon Territory, many of which are on or about Skagway or Dyea and over the Chilkoot or White Pass in the panhandle of Alaska to the gold fields Yukon reached.

In 1902 started the construction of the Alaska Railroad, which connects Fairbanks since 1914 Seward.

After the District with its own government had been fitted, the call for a seat in Alaska's Congress of the United States, according to which in 1912 yielded to the founding of the Alaska Territory.

Governors of the District of Alaska

  • History of Alaska
  • History of the United States (1865-1918)
  • Historical territory of the United States
  • American colonial history
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Territory of Alaska Skagway, Alaska Dyea, Alaska Southeast Alaska Seward (Alaska) Fairbanks, Alaska Alfred P. Swineford Lyman Enos Knapp James Sheakley John Green Brady Walter Eli Clark
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