Alaskans in congress?
This was a decent story till I read the year...1940....and reviewed my Alaskan history book...1958 was when Alaska reached statehood. They had NO senators to represent them, and obviously the same story for representatives.
So, if this story is true...then there’s more to it. It wasn’t Alaskan representatives...then who stood against it? Since we know that the Democrats had 61 percent control over the House, and Sam Rayburn from Texas ran passage of bills...it’s a very likely chance that Texas Democrats stood against this idea.
Perhaps a deeper review of this moment of history is in order.
After 1906 Alaska had one elected non-voting representative in the House of Representatives. Which would seem to make the term “Alaskans in Congress” inappropriate.
However, it is possible Alaskans, particularly business interests, lobbied members of Congress from other states to oppose the measure, in which case the wording is just awkward.
AK still has only a total of 3 people in the Congress, so it’s still not like they’re a massive voting block.
“Alaska became a state in 1959.”
Anthony Joseph Dimond (November 30, 1881 – May 28, 1953) was an American Democratic Party politician who was the Alaska Territory Delegate in the United States House of Representatives for many years (1933-1945).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Dimond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slattery_Report