The first Governor of the U.S. District of Alaska, John Henry Kinkead, was in office from July 4, 1884 until May 7, 1885.
The first Governor of the U.S. Territory of Alaska, John Franklin Alexander Strong, was in office from April 18, 1913 until April 12, 1918.
The first Governor of the U.S. State of Alaska, William Allen Egan, was in office from January 3, 1959 until December 5, 1966 and from December 7, 1970 until December 2, 1974.
The first Governor of the State of Alaska was William A. Egan. The first Governor of Alaska Territory was Walter Eli Clark. The first Governor of the District of Alaska was John Henry Kinkead.
Egan was the first an fourth governor of Alaska and the only Alaska Governor to date that was born in Alaska.
Brevet Maj. Gen. Jefferson C. Davis was Commander of the Department of Alaska 1868-1870. John Henry Kinkead was Governor of the District of Alaska 1884-1885. Walter Eli Clark was Governor of the Alaska Territory 1912-1913. William A. Egan was Governor of the state of Alaska 1959-1966.
William A. Egan served as governor of Alaska twice. The first time he served from 1959 to 1966 as Alaska's first governor. He then served again from 1970 to 1974.
No, Sarah Palin did not serve a full term as governor of Alaska. She resigned from office on July 26, 2009, just over two and a half years into her first term, to focus on other political opportunities.
William Egan.
William A. Egan.
He was the first governor of Alaska
Sean Parnell is the Governor of Alaska.
William Allen Egan who was the first Governor of the State of Alaska.
The first female governor was Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming, who was elected in a special election following the death of her husband, Governor William Ross. The election was on November 4, 1924 and she was inaugurated on January 5, 1925 (just 2 weeks before the inauguration of "Ma" Ferguson as the first female governor of Texas). She served one term until 1927, being defeated in the election of 1926.
Sarah Palin was a member of the Wasilla, Alaska, city council from 1992 to 1996 and mayor from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004. She was elected governor of Alaska in November 2006 by defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary and a former two-term Democratic governor in the general election.