...Gruening, and six years later he lost his party's nod to Anchorage banker Elmer Rasmuson. But when incumbent Democrat Bob Bartlett died in December 1968, Stevens was appointed to the vacancy by then-Gov. Walter J. Hickel, a Republican. Stevens...
...gas station and a used car repair shop. Many politicians, including Gov. Bill Egan and Sens. Earnest Gruening and Bob Bartlett, stopped at the store on Badger Road to visit Fred and Thelda. In 1975, Fred and Thelda sold their business and moved...
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