Ernest Gruening

Background

Gruening, Ernest was born on February 6, 1887 in New York City. Son of Emil and Phebe (Fridenberg) Gruening.

Education

Graduate Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut, 1903. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1907, Doctor of Medicine 1912. Doctor of Laws, University Alberta, 1950, U. Alaska, 1955, Brandeis University, 1958.

Doctor of Humane Letters, Wilmington College.

Career

Reporter, special article writer, editor various newspapers, 1911-1920. Managing editor The Nation, 1920-1923, and editor, 1933-1934. National director of publicity, LaFollette Progressive Presidential Campaign, 1924.

Founder Portland (Maine) Evening News, 1927, editor until 1932, contributing editor, 1932-1937.

Editor New York Evening Post, February-April 1934, member Cuba Commission Foreign Policy Association, 1934. Director Division Territories and Island Possessions, unites states department Interior, 1934-1939, administrator Prize ring (The) Reconstruction

Adminstrn, 1935-1937. Federal emergency relief administrator Prize ring (The), 1935-1936.

Member Alaska International Highway Commission 1938-1942.

Governor of Alaska, 1939-1953. Keynoter, Alaska Constnl. Convention, 1955; elected provisional United States Senator from Alaska, 1956-1958, Senator 1958-1969.

General adviser to the United States delegation to 7th Pan American Conference, Montevideo, 1933.

Consultant Population Crisis committee, 1968-1974.

Achievements

• Ernest Gruening has been listed as a notable United States senator, editor, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Alaska International Highway Commission 1938-1942. Governor of Alaska, 1939-1953. Clubs: Harvard (New York).

Connections

Married Dorothy East. Smith, November 19, 1914. Children: Ernest (deceased), Huntington Sanders, Peter B. (deceased).

Father:

Emil Gruening

Mother:

Phebe (Fridenberg) Gruening

Spouse:

Dorothy East. Smith

child:

Peter B. Gruening (deceased)

child:

Ernest Gruening (deceased)

child:

Huntington Sanders Gruening

References

• Ernest Gruening: Alaska's Greatest Governor In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Ernest Gruening governor of territorial Alaska. What followed were twenty historic years that changed the face of North America when Alaska became a state in 1959.