B. Frank Heintzleman

Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Heintzleman (* 3. December 1888 in Fayetteville , Pennsylvania ; † 24. June 1965 in Juneau , Alaska ) was an American politician of the Republican Party and from 1953 to 1957 Governor of Alaska Territory . He was a Lutheran .

Life

Frank Heintzleman embarked on a professional career as a forester in his native Pennsylvania. After graduating from Yale School of Forestry in 1910, he joined the United States Forest Service . On behalf of this federal agency, he was active in the Alaska Territory from 1918, where he held the post of Regional Forester from 1937 .

In 1953, Heintzleman was appointed governor of the Alaska Territory by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower . At the time, the planned establishment of the state of Alaska was the dominant political issue. Heintzleman was seen as a cautious supporter of full accession to the Union and initially presented a partition plan, according to which the south and the center of the territory should form one state, while the west and the Arctic areas should continue to have territorial status. This project met with widespread rejection. Later, however, Heintzleman managed to win over influential members of the Federal Republican Party for the project to found a state.

After his voluntary resignation from the governor's office in January 1957, Frank Heintzleman was honored in 1959 as "Man of the Year" by the city of Juneau. The Alaska Chamber of Commerce named him "Outstanding Alaskan" after the state was founded.

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• Kurzbiografie (English)
• B. Frank Heintzleman in nndb (English)
• The Political Graveyard (English)