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The Alaska Women's Hall of Fame (AWHF) recognizes women natives or residents of the U.S. state of Alaska for their significant achievements or statewide contributions. It was conceived by the board of directors of the Alaska Women's Network (AWN) in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Alaska's statehood.
Alaska suffragists c. 1916. Women's suffrage was won fairly easily for non-native women in Alaska in 1913. Prior to becoming a territory, non-native women were able to vote in school board elections. Women's suffrage work took place in the Alaska chapters of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). After Alaska was admitted as a territory ...
Robert Christian Boes Hansen [2] (February 15, 1939 – August 21, 2014), infamously known as the Butcher Baker, was an American serial killer active in Anchorage, Alaska, between 1972 and 1983, abducting, raping and murdering at least seventeen women.
This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Alaska. Non-native women in Alaska had the right to vote in school board elections starting in 1904. In 1913, the first Territorial Legislature passed the Shoup Suffrage Bill which gave non-native women the right to vote in all elections. Alaska Native women had a longer road fighting for their right to ...
She became Alaska's first female governor and, at the age of 42, the youngest governor in Alaskan history. She was the state's first governor to have been born after Alaska achieved U.S. statehood, and the first who was not inaugurated in the capital, Juneau (she chose to have the ceremony in Fairbanks instead). She took office on December 4, 2006.
Born Mary Sattler, Peltola is Yup'ik (an Alaska Native people) from the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta in Western Alaska. [15] [16] She was born in Anchorage on August 31, 1973. [17] [4] Her Yup'ik name is Akalleq (transl. the one who rolled). [18] [19] Peltola's father, Ward Sattler, a German-American from Nebraska, moved to Alaska to work as a pilot ...
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Alaska.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
Women mayors of places in Alaska (16 P) Women state constitutional officers of Alaska (4 P) Women state legislators in Alaska (1 C, 82 P) Pages in category "Women in ...