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William Allen Egan, Alaska’s first governor, was born on October 8, 1914, in Valdez, Alaska.

Egan was the wife of the state of Alaska's first governor, William Allen Egan, and the mother of former Juneau Mayor and Alaska State Senator Dennis Egan.

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William married Mary Jane Allen, daughter of Johnny Floyd Allen and Lucinda Caroline (Jane?) Cantley.

He earned an honorary LL.D. from the Alaska Methodist University in 1965, and the University of Alaska in 1972. Before entering politics, he served in the U.S. Army during World War II, worked in a mine, was a pilot, and owned the Valdez General Store.

Egan was elected to the Alaska Territorial House in 1941, served for ten years, and was speaker in 1951. He was mayor of Valdez in 1946, a member of the Alaska Territorial Senate form 1953 to 1955, and a delegate and presiding officer to the Alaska Statehood Constitutional Convention from 1955 to 1956.

William Allen Egan.

On June 30, 1958, Congress approved the Alaska Statehood Act, and consequently, Egan ran and was elected the state’s first governor. He was reelected to a second term in 1962, ran unsuccessfully in 1966, and was reelected to a third term in 1970.

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