Bruce B. Kendall
Bruce Biers Kendall (born February 28, 1919 in Martinsburg , Dixon County , Nebraska , † July 6, 2012 in Napa , California ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ). From 1963 to 1964 he was President ( Speaker ) of the House of Representatives of Alaska .
Career
Bruce Kendall attended high school in Sioux City ( Iowa ), before he was already beginning to work with 16 years on a merchant ship in which he traveled widely. From 1939 he lived in Anchorage in the Alaska Territory , where he was employed as a receptionist in a hotel. During the Second World War he was a civil employee in the US Army at Fort Richardson and then served for a year in the United States Merchant Navy . He then returned to bourgeois life and bought a hotel in Anchorage and stakes in two taxi companies. Hotels in Juneau , Valdez and Cordova were added in the course of the following years .
In the run-up to the 1959 accession of Alaska as the 49th state to the union, Kendall was elected as a Republican in the first House of Representatives of Alaska , which met from January 26, 1959 in the Alaska State Capitol . After being re-elected three times, he completed four consecutive legislative terms there. In 1959 and 1961 he acted as a minority leader , that is to say as the group leader of the Republicans, who were then still in the minority of MPs. After his party won a majority of the seats in the 1962 elections, he took over the office of Speaker from the Democrat Warren A. Taylor . Among other things, he was involved in the reconstruction efforts after the Good Friday quake in 1964 . When the majority situation reversed in 1965, he had to give up the post to the Democrat Mike Gravel .
After Kendall was defeated in the Republican primary for the gubernatorial election in 1966 Walter Hickel , he switched to the Democratic Party. But he only returned to active politics once when he ran for a seat in the Alaska Senate in 1978 , but lost to Republican Arliss Sturgulewski . Otherwise he limited himself to his activity in the hotel and motel industry.
Web links
- Bruce B. Kendall at The Political Graveyard
- Obituary in the Anchorage Daily News
- Biographical Dates at the Alaska Legislature
Notes and individual references
- ↑ according to some sources also Byers
- ^ Nancy Weatherly Sharp, James Roger Sharp, Charles F. Ritter, Jon L. Wakelyn: American Legislative Leaders in the West, 1911-1994 . Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Our Campaigns: AK Senate H - November 07, 1978
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kendall, Bruce B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kendall, Bruce Biers (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Martinsburg , Nebraska |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 2012 |
| Place of death | Napa , California |