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...years after his appointment by Franklin Roosevelt. Gruening had heavy labor support, campaigned tirelessly, spoke clearly on all questions, personally claimed credit for statehood, the DEW line and the fight against tuberculosis among Alaska's natives. It took all that to beat out young (39) Republican Mike Stepovich, who quit the territorial governorship to run. Stepovich, father of eight children and last-appointed Alaska governor proved to be only a so-so campaigner, got lost in the political infighting, lost the election by a slender 2,500 votes...
...right start, to Seaton's mind: a vote for 1) young (39) Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9), who resigned from the governorship to run for the U.S. Senate against aging (71) onetime Governor Ernest Gruening; 2) Territorial Senator John Butrovich Jr., 48, for Governor v. Valdez Grocer William Egan...
...Highway along the Gastineau Channel to downtown Juneau. There, in a Front Street theater around the corner from the Red Dog Saloon, Nixon was greeted by about 1,000 Alaskans (Juneau's pop. 7,000). Missing were several of the top Alaska Republican candidates, including former Governor Mike Stepovich, now running for the Senate, and the only Republican given a real chance in the 49th state this year. Stepovich and his running mates had been socked in at Sitka and Anchorage by the foul weather...
...such relaxed interludes were the exception for Campaigner Nixon. Even as Golden Nugget carried Nixon from Juneau to Anchorage-where he finally caught up with Candidate Stepovich-and on to Fairbanks this week, the rest of the U.S. was ready to vote (Nixon had already cast an absentee ballot in California). No sooner would the 1958 congressional elections end than the work for the presidential election of 1960 would begin-and for Candidate Nixon that work would make 1958 seem like child's play...
...officially assume statehood until early 1959-already thinks it knows the name of its first elected Governor: Democrat William A. Egan, 43. Egan is running a one-sided contest against Republican John Butrovich Jr., 48, Fairbanks insurance man, former Territorial Senator and longtime political catechist to Territorial Governor Mike Stepovich (running for the U.S. Senate). President of the 1955 Alaska constitutional convention, Valdez Grocer Egan is his party's second-ranking vote getter (after indefatigable Delegate to Congress E. L. -"Bob"-Bartlett). Even though penny-pinching Bill Egan lost ten campaign days by driving home from Washington to save...