John Weir Troy

John Weir Troy ( born October 31, 1868 in Dungeness, Clallam County, Washington; † May 2, 1942 in Juneau, Alaska ) was an American politician and from 1933 to 1939 Governor of Alaska Territory. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was also a delegate to the Alaska Territory to the Democratic National Convention in 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936 and 1940.

Troy struck at the end of his education first a career as a journalist and worked as a reporter for the Port Townsend Argus, a newspaper belonging to his uncle. Later he was with the Port Angeles Weekly Democratic Leader self publish a newspaper. Between 1889 and 1897 he held several public offices in Clallam County, before he moved to Alaska to report from there for a newspaper from Seattle to the Klondike Gold Rush. He lived in Skagway, was infected with polio and returned there for some time for the treatment to Washington. During his second stay in Skagway he settled there permanently down, and gave out the Skagway Daily Alaskan and the Alaska-Yukon Magazine here two newspapers. Later he joined as head of the tax authority for Alaska (Collector of Customs ) in the Federal service.

After another extended stay in his native Washington Troy returned a second time back to Alaska. In Juneau, he acquired in 1913, the newspaper Daily Alaska Empire by John Franklin Alexander Strong, after he had become governor of the territory. Later, he practiced as a staunch supporter of more autonomy rights for the Alaska territory itself from this post. He left office in 1939 for health reasons and sat down in Juneau to rest.