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}}{{Infobox Congressman | name=Ralph Julian Rivers | image name=Ralph Julian Rivers.jpg | state=Alaska | district=at-large | party=Democratic | term_start=January 3, 1959 | term_end=December 30, 1966 | preceded=Bob Bartlett (Delegate) | succeeded=Howard W. Pollock | birth_date={{birth date|1903|05|23}} | birth_place=Seattle, Washington | death_date={{death date and age|1976|08|14|1903|05|23}} | death_place=Chehalis, Washington | spouse= | children= | religion= | occupation= | residence= | alma_mater= University of Washington }}Ralph Julian Rivers (May 23, 1903 – August 14, 1976) was a Democratic United States Representative from Alaska.[1] BiographyBorn in Seattle, Washington to Louisa Zenaide (née Lavoy) and Julian Guy Rivers,[2] Rivers attended grammar school in Flat, Alaska, and Franklin High School in Seattle. He worked as a gold miner in Flat from 1921 to 1923, and then earned an LL.B. from the University of Washington School of Law in 1929. He then worked as a lawyer in private practice for several years. Rivers was a lifelong civil servant, working in a number of public positions throughout his life. He served as United States Attorney for District of Alaska, from 1933 to 1944.[3] He was then elected as the attorney general of Alaska, serving from 1945 to 1949.[4] He was the chair of the Employment Security Commission of Alaska from 1950 to 1952, and then became the mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska from 1952 to 1954. In 1954 he was also president of the League of Alaskan Cities. He was a member of the Alaska Territorial Senate in 1955, and was the second vice president of the Alaska Constitutional Convention at College, Alaska in 1955 and 1956. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1960, 1964, and 1968. Rivers appeared on the game show To Tell the Truth as contestant #1 in the second group of contestants on June 2, 1959.[5] U.S. House of RepresentativesIn 1957 and 1958, Rivers was a United States Representative-elect under the Alaska-Tennessee Plan in Washington, D.C., on a provisional basis, pending statehood. Upon the admission of Alaska as a State into the Union, he was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1959 until December 30, 1966.[6] He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966, resigning days before the end of his term. Rivers died in Chehalis, Washington, and his remains were cremated. His ashes were interred at Sunset Memorial Gardens.[7] Electoral history{{Expand list|date=June 2014}}Alaska's at-large congressional district: Results 1958–1966[8]
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Biographical Guide to Members of Congress|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000282|publisher=U.S. Congress|accessdate=April 21, 2017}} {{CongBio|R000282}}2. ^{{citation |url= https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRM7-KRB |title= Washington Birth Records, 1869-1950 |website= FamilySearch |accessdate=April 6, 2018 }} 3. ^{{cite web|title=District of Alaska|url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-ak/about_us|website=U.S. Department of Justice|publisher=Office of the United States Attorneys|accessdate=April 21, 2017}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Creating Alaska-entry for Ralph Rivers|url=http://www.alaska.edu/creatingalaska/whos-who/alaskans/statehood-committee/rivers/|publisher=University of Alaska|accessdate=April 21, 2017}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=To Tell the Truth - Collegiate grandmother; First Alaskan in House of Representatives|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vySPLujfYUI|publisher=YouTube|date=June 2, 1959|accessdate=April 21, 2017}} 6. ^{{cite book|editor1-last=Warren|editor1-first=Kenneth F.|title=Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior|date=2008|publisher=Sage Publications|location=Thousand Oaks, CA|isbn=1452265879|page=28|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lCh1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=Ralph+Julian+Rivers&source=bl&ots=DISqYPFSlf&sig=2EgSP_d14pfAq-thtITMYfmeEPY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXw9n07LXTAhVFwYMKHRg2Ahc4ChDoAQhbMAM#v=onepage&q=Ralph%20Julian%20Rivers&f=false|accessdate=April 21, 2017|chapter=Alaska}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=Sunset Memorial Gardens-Ralph Julian Winters|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6882091|publisher=Find a Grave|accessdate=April 21, 2017}} 8. ^{{cite web |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/index.html |title=Election Statistics |accessdate=2008-10-24 |publisher=Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives }} External links{{Portal|Alaska|Biography|Law|Politics}}
| state=Alaska | district=AL | before=Bob Bartlett (Non-voting delegate) | after=Howard Wallace Pollock | years= January 3, 1959 – December 30, 1966}}{{S-end}}{{Alaska Representatives}}{{Alaska Attorneys General}}{{Signers of the Constitution of Alaska}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rivers, Ralph Julian}} 18 : 1903 births|1976 deaths|20th-century American politicians|Alaska Attorneys General|Alaska Democrats|American gold prospectors|Delegates to Alaska's Constitutional Convention|Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives|Franklin High School (Seattle) alumni|Mayors of Fairbanks, Alaska|Members of the Alaska Territorial Legislature|Members of the United States House of Representatives from Alaska|People from Chehalis, Washington|People from Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska|Politicians from Seattle|United States Attorneys for the District of Alaska|University of Washington School of Law alumni|Lawyers from Fairbanks, Alaska |
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