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Happy Birthday, Senator

Date Posted: November 13, 2015       Categories: 49 History

Ted Stevens was born on November 18, 1923, in Indianapolis. In honor of his birthday week, we’re sharing this photo from June 1958, when the young Stevens met with Vice President Richard Nixon on the Alaska statehood vote taking place that month in Congress. Stevens was then working as a special assistant to Interior Secretary Fred Seaton.

(photo credit: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Collection, Box 1, Alaska and Polar Regions, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks)

(photo credit: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Collection, Box 1, Alaska and Polar Regions, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks)