Ernest Gruening was elected to the Senate on October 6, 1955 for the 84th Congress but did not take the oath of office and was not accorded senatorial privileges, Alaska not yet being admitted as a state.

Senator Ernest Gruening mentioned the film in a speech in Congress, and a copy of it was screened in the Kremlin.

In 1916, the Arnold Toynbee House in New York was founded by a group of young adults who were part of the Stevenson Club at Madison House and with the help of philanthropist Rose Gruening.

A meeting was held on June 25, 1849 at Claus Oesau's house, where the first town council was elected, with chairman Charles Gruening, town supervisors Henry Volquarts and Claus Oesau, town clerk E. Veers, town assessor Wm.

Ernest Henry Gruening (; February 6, 1887June 26, 1974 ) was an American journalist and Democrat who was the Governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senator from Alaska from 1959 until 1969.

For four years, Gruening was, consecutively, managing editor of the Boston Evening Traveler and the New York Tribune.

In 1939 Gruening was appointed Governor of the Territory of Alaska, and served in that position for fourteen years.

Pending statehood, he was elected to the United States Senate in 1958 ; with Alaska's admission to the Union in 1959, Gruening served in the Senate for 10 years.

Gruening ’ s most notable act as Senator was being, along with Wayne Morse of Oregon, one of only two Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorized an expansion of U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

Gruening was defeated for re-election in 1968 by fellow Democrat Mike Gravel.

Another grandson, Winthrop H. " Win " Gruening, is best known as a senior vice president of KeyBank in Juneau, Alaska and longtime head of The Alaska Committee, which was organized in 1995 to advocate for keeping Alaska's capital in Juneau.

In 1964, Morse, who had won re-election in 1962, was one of only two United States Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution ( Alaska's Ernest Gruening was the other ), which authorized an expansion of U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

) It was opposed in the Senate only by Senators Wayne Morse ( D-OR ) and Ernest Gruening ( D-AK ).

# U. S. Sen. Maurice R. " Mike " Gravel ( D-Alaska ) ( 2 terms ), the senator who in 1971 had entered the full text of the Pentagon Papers into the official record of the Senate Subcommittee of Public Buildings and Grounds, was unexpectedly defeated in the Democratic primary by Clark Gruening.

Gruening was the grandson of Ernest Gruening, the incumbent Democrat whom Gravel had unseated in the 1968 Democratic primary.

Stepovich's bid for a United States Senate seat was unsuccessful, with the former governor losing to Ernest Gruening during a November 1958 special election.

Second and more importantly, Roosevelt appointed Ernest Gruening as governor of Alaska in 1939.

The 55 delegates also elected three unofficial representatives – all Democrats – as unofficial delegates to Congress: Ernest Gruening and William Egan as U. S. Senators and Ralph Rivers as U. S. representative.

In 1980, Gruening's grandson, Clark Gruening, defeated Gravel in the Democratic primary for renomination to the U. S. Senate.

The walls feature the work of early Juneau photographers Lloyd Winter and Percy Pond, and busts of the first two U. S. Senators from Alaska, Bob Bartlett and Ernest Gruening.

Born in New York City, Gruening graduated from Harvard University in 1907 and from Harvard Medical School in 1912.

After serving in World War I, Gruening became the editor of The Nation from 1920 to 1923 and the editor of the New York Post for four months in 1934.

Gravel defeated Gruening in the Democratic primary, but Gruening ran in the general election as an independent, taking third place, behind Gravel and Republican former Anchorage Mayor Elmer E. Rasmuson.

Brief testimony by Joseph S. Clark ( President, World Federalists, USA ), Senator Alan Cranston ( D-Calif ) and Ernest Gruening ( former Senator from Alaska ) on support for S. 376.

* Alaska's Digital Archives – Photo of Leman, 1968, with Ernest Gruening and Tom Anderson.

* Ernest Gruening — Governor of the Alaska Territory ( 1939 – 1953 ) and Senator from Alaska ( 1959 – 1969 )

six days after war was declared he appointed Raymond Fosdick chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities ( the CTCA ).

Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.

Dr. Gordon N. Ray, Provost, Vice-President and Professor of English in the University of Illinois, was appointed Associate Secretary General.

In 1800, Manthey went abroad and Oersted was appointed manager of the Lion Pharmacy.

In a course for supermarket operators, a district manager who had been recently appointed to his position after being outstandingly successful as a store manager, found that in supervising other managers he was having a difficult time.

So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

In October 1944, he was appointed state warden and chief of the Forest Fire Section.

Vincent G. Ierulli has been appointed temporary assistant district attorney, it was announced Monday by Charles E. Raymond, District Attorney.

Her husband recently was appointed vice president of the university, bringing them back here from the east.

A notable example of this was the discussion of Christian unity by the Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Dr. Heenan, and the Anglican Archbishop of York, Dr. Ramsey, recently appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.

" After repeated calls on Grant to defend Washington, Sheridan was appointed and the threat from Early was dispatched.

Aristotle was appointed as the head of the royal academy of Macedon.

Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

Suleiman ibn Kutalmish was the son of the contender for Arslan's throne ; he was appointed governor of the north-western provinces and assigned to completing invasion of Anatolia.

In 1950, van Vogt was briefly appointed as head of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics operation in California.

In 1787 a bishop of Nova Scotia was appointed with a jurisdiction over all of British North America ; in time several more colleagues were appointed to other cities in present-day Canada.

In time, it became natural to group these into provinces and a metropolitan was appointed for each province.

He was also appointed organist for the Bach Concerts of the Orféo Català at Barcelona and often travelled there for that purpose.