Elton Egedeous Engstrom Sr. (June 6, 1905 — January 30, 1963) was an American businessman and politician. Born in

Wrangell, Alaska Wrangell (, ) is a List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska, borough in Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census the population was 2,127, down from 2,369 in 2010. Incorporated as a consolidated city–county ...

, Engstrom went to the Wrangell High School and to the

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. He was in the family fishing business in Wrangell, Alaska and

Juneau, Alaska Juneau ( ; ), officially the City and Borough of Juneau, is the List of capitals in the United States, capital of the U.S. state of Alaska, located along the Gastineau Channel and the Southeast Alaska, Alaskan panhandle. Juneau was named the ...

. He served on the

Douglas, Alaska Douglas is a community on Douglas Island in southeastern Alaska, directly across the Gastineau Channel from downtown Juneau. History Douglas Island was originally a border of the Auke people’s and Taku people’s territory. It was not usual ...

City Council and as mayor of Douglas in 1943 and 1944. He was the Alaska Territory Republican Party chair in 1945 and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention from Alaska Territory in 1956. From 1951 to 1954 and 1957–1958, Engstrom represented the 1st District in the Alaska Territorial Senate. After Alaska became a state, he served in the

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from 1961 until his death in 1963. Engstrom died in a hospital in Juneau, Alaska after suffering a heart attack. In 1947, his wife,

Thelma Engstrom Thelma Catherine Engstrom (née Wait) (September 9, 1905 – February 7, 1957) was a teacher, columnist and legislator in Alaska. Born in Seattle, Washington, Engstrom graduated from the University of Washington in 1926. She taught school in Mos ...

, served in the 18th Session of the Alaska Territorial House. Elton and Thelma's son, attorney Elton Engstrom Jr., served in both the Alaska House and Senate, and their granddaughter, Cathy Muñoz, served four terms in the Alaska House.

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Brief political graveyard bio

American legislative leaders in the West, 1911-1994

Elton Engstrom Sr.
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