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John F. A. Strong

John F. A. StrongAKA John Franklin Alexander Strong

Born: 15-Oct-1856
Birthplace: Salmon Center, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 27-Jul-1929
Location of death: Seattle, WA
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Cremated

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician
Party Affiliation: Democratic

Nationality: United States [1]
Executive summary: Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1913-18

[1] Strong was never a US citizen. President Woodrow Wilson dismissed him from the territorial governorship in 1918 when it became known that he was actually a British subject, born in Canada and not Kentucky as he had claimed. A wife and three children in British Columbia had been abandoned and he took a new wife, Annie, in bigamy.

Wife: (three children, Strong abandoned this family)
Wife: Annie (bigamist marriage, d. 1947)

    Governor of Alaska (1913-18, Territorial)






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