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Forget-Me-Nots


Kenneth Atkinson

December 17th, 2009

Bill Egan became Alaska’s first Governor but not without a fight from Bob Atwood, publisher of the Anchorage Times who had pushed hard for statehood.

Kenneth Atkinson, an anchorage attorney, remembers how his law partner, George McLaughlin, managed the Egan campaign.

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