Robert W. Ward

Robert W. Ward (* 26. November 1929 in Addy , Stevens County , Washington , † 3. April 1997 ) was an American businessman and politician ( Republican Party ), who from 1969 to 1970 the Office of the Lieutenant-Governor in the state of Alaska exercised .

Career

Robert W. Ward was an employee of the State Forest Service from 1946 to 1954 . In 1954 he moved to Ketchikan , Alaska, where he worked as an electrician and department head in the wood industry for the Ketchikan Pulp Company until 1966 . Since 1961 he has held various offices in local politics, as a member of the Ketchikan City Council (1961–1964), District Chairman (1963–1966) of the Ketchikan Gateway District and President of the Association of Local Authorities of Alaska ( Alaska Municipal League , 1964–1965) .

1966 Ward joined the service of the state government of Alaska, where he was initially until 1969 Commissioner of the Department of Administration . In January 1969, Ward assumed the office of lieutenant governor of Alaska during the current legislature . His predecessor Keith Harvey Miller was elected Governor of Alaska after the previous incumbent, Walter Hickel, was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Richard Nixon in 1969 and then resigned as Governor.

Ward was the third incumbent after the conversion of the Alaskan Territory to the 49th state of the United States on January 3, 1959. His office was Secretary of State of Alaska ; only after the constitutional amendment of 1970 were his successors officially named Lieutenant Governor of the State of Alaska . Ward served under Governor Miller, who also served from 1969 to 1970. Ward's successor was Democrat Red Boucher in December 1970 .

From 1971 to 1973, Ward was director of energy for the Alaska Department of the Interior. 1973 he became president at the head of Arctic Gas Pipeline Company , a consortium of 27 US and Canadian energy company, which was founded in 1970 to create a new gas pipeline to build the natural gas from Prudhoe Bay and the Canadian Mackenzie Delta into Should transport inland USA. After a decision was made against this project in 1977 and the consortium was dissolved, Ward first took over the chairmanship of a committee of the Alaska Power Authority, founded in 1978, and then served as a representative of the Ministry of Transport and Public Facilities from October 24, 1978.

Ward's first marriage since 1949 to Peggie Ward b. Garske from Ione, Washington. The marriage had two sons and a daughter.

literature

• Art. Ward, Robert W. , in: Evangeline Atwood u. a., Who's Who in Alaskan Politics: A Biographical Dictionary of Alaskan Political Personalities, 1884-1974 , Binfort & Mort, Portland 1977, p. 103, ISBN 0-8323-0287-2
• Art. Robert Ward, Commissioner , in: Alaska Blue Book , ed. from the Division of State Libraries and Archives, Alaska, 1981, p. 18

Web links

• List of all officials of Alaska