Talk:William A. Egan

Small list of missing pertinent information

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Two glaring omissions are as follows:

1) Egan spent his first four months as governor back in 1959 gravely ill in a Seattle hospital:

2) Egan lost his re-election bid to Wally Hickel in 1966. There is LOTS which could be written about that. One very important factor was the fact that the very first Alaska Federation of Natives convention was held 14 days before the election. Many Alaska Natives used the Egan-Hickel race as a test of their newly-found political power and/or whether or not they were going to be taken seriously by the white political establishment in Juneau.

And one minor point: Sarah Palin was hung out to dry for leaving Juneau's Senate seat vacant for a considerable amount of time during the middle of the legislative session last year. Well, Egan did the same thing when faced with making a Republican appointment to Juneau's Senate seat in 1963.

Just thought I'd bring that up. This will likely require more research effort that just a simple Google search, so good luck. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RadioKAOS (talk • contribs) 05:23, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Born in Alaska

Egan is the only governor in the state's history to have actually been born in Alaska... W. E. Hendrickson also. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.101.194.80 (talk) 20:29, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, same with Mike Stepovich. I don't think there's been any standardization inasfar as distinctions which are particular to territorial or state officeholders. Egan is the only STATE governor to have been born in Alaska.

(BTW, giving this a seperate subject heading, seeing as how it has nothing to do with the points I brought up previously) RadioKAOS (talk) 19:24, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the proposal was move to the more common name William A. Egan.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 15:32, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

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William Allen Egan → ? – As with the previous RM, I developed the impression that the Alaska governor articles were all titled according to how they appear in one particular source. I originally thought that source was The Alaska Almanac. I've since consulted both a physical copy and Google Books, representing separate editions, and discovered my notion was incorrect. Despite my knowledge of Alaska, this is a matter in which I'm somewhat lacking in knowledge, as Egan was a retired elder statesman by the time I was growing up here. I can definitely state that Egan most certainly was not commonly known by his full name. It's completely a toss-up as to whether Egan was more commonly known as Bill Egan or William A. Egan (both of which redirect to the current article title). RadioKAOS  – Talk to me, Billy 19:33, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

• Support move to William A. Egan, which is 50X more common in books. Dicklyon (talk) 03:51, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

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