Robert W. Ward

Robert W. Ward ( * November 26, 1929 in Addy, Stevens County, Washington; † 3 April 1997 ) was an American businessman and politician ( Republican), who practiced from 1969 to 1970 the office of Lieutenant Governor in the State of Alaska.

Career

Robert W. Ward was from 1946 to 1954 an employee of the State Forestry Administration. In 1954 he moved to Ketchikan, Alaska, where he worked as an electrician and department head in the timber industry for the Ketchikan Pulp Company was active until 1966. Since 1961, he held various offices in local politics as a member of the City Council of Ketchikan ( 1961-1964 ), District Chairman ( 1963-1966 ) of the District Ketchikan Gateway and president of the Association of Municipalities of Alaska ( Alaska Municipal League, 1964-1965 ).

1966 Ward entered the service of the state government of Alaska, where he was initially to 1969 commissioner of the Administration Department ( Department of Administration). In January 1969 Ward took over during the current legislative session, the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. His predecessor Keith Harvey Miller was elected Governor of Alaska after the previous incumbent Walter Hickel was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Richard Nixon in 1969 and was subsequently resigned as governor.

Ward was the third incumbent upon conversion of the Alaska Territory to the 49th state of the United States on January 3, 1959 His official title was Secretary of State of Alaska. ; only after the constitutional amendment of 1970 his successors were officially called Lieutenant Governor of the State of Alaska. Ward worked under Governor Miller, who also officiated from 1969 to 1970. Ward's successor was in December 1970, the Democrat Red Boucher.

From 1971 to 1973 Ward headed the Power Management in the Ministry of the Interior of Alaska. In 1973, he became president at the top of the Arctic Gas Pipeline Company, a consortium of 27 U.S. and Canadian energy company that was founded in 1970 to build a new gas pipeline, natural gas from Prudhoe Bay and the Canadian Mackenzie Delta from inland region of the United States should carry. After 1977 a decision against this project began and the consortium was disbanded, Ward first took over the chairmanship of a committee which was founded in 1978 Energy Agency (Alaska Power Authority ) and then served since 24 October 1978 as mandated by the Ministry of Transport and Public Facilities.

Ward was married in first marriage since 1949 with Peggie Ward born Garske from Ione, Washington. The couple had two sons and a daughter.