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Statehood leader, newspaperman and Gruening aide Sundborg dies at 95
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Feb 10, 2009 04:04pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When Ernest Gruening became one of Alaska’s first U.S. senators in 1959, only one staff member addressed him by his first name.
George Sundborg Sr. had written about or worked with Gruening through much of the 1940s and 1950s as a newspaperman and government official.
In Washington, D.C., Sundborg directed the work of the senator’s staff and “remained Gruening’s closest personal confidant and political advisor,” Fairbanks historian Claus Naske wrote in his book “Ernest Gruening: Alaska’s Greatest Governor.”
On Saturday, Sundborg died in Swedish Hospital in Seattle at age 95. |
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