This Day in Alaska History-July 20th, 1917

By Alaska Native News on Jul 20, 2023   Featured, This Day in Alaskan and U.S. History  

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 […]