This Day in Alaska History-July 20th, 1917
![Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., 3rd Territorial Governor of Alaska. Photo-Alaska State Library This Day in Alaska History-July 20th, 1917](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/image2022-07-19.jpg)
Although the official announcement that Thomas Riggs would become the third Territorial Governor of Alaska wouldn’t come until much later, President Woodrow Wilson let it be known unofficially, on July 20th, 1917, that he had made his choice as to who was going to replace John Franklin Alexander Strong as the new governor of the […]