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- ↑ "Alaska Ear". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
- ↑ "Roster of Members 1913 - 2013" (PDF). Alaska Legislature.
- ↑ "100 Years of Alaska's Legislature". Alaska Legislature. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
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