- Ken Hinchey
Ken Hinchey (1912 - 1994) was an Alaskan entrepreneur. He served one term as
Mayor of Anchorage ,Alaska from 1955 to 1956.Biography
Ken Hinchey was born September 9, 1912 in
Fern Hill, Tacoma, Washington . In 1933, he married Nadine Graves, and in 1937 the couple moved toAnchorage, Alaska . Hinchey started a number of businesses in Alaska, including Northern Transfer, the Black and White Restaurant, Alaska Aggregate Corporation, Idealaska Cement, and Pacific Western Lines. He also mined gold in Hope, invented machines, and transported oil from Valdez to Fairbanks for the military duringWorld War II . He was an avidbush pilot .Hinchey was elected to a single term mayor of Anchorage in 1955. He advocated statehood for the
Territory of Alaska and building a dam on theCook Inlet causeway.He died April 21, 1994 at the age of 81.
References
* Citation
title=Obituaries
newspaper=Anchorage Daily News
pages=D4
date=May 11, 1994
* [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1956/07/14/1956_07_14_015_TNY_CARDS_000253776 "Alaskan Mayor" (abstract) in The New Yorker, 1956]Bibliography
* Hinchey, Ken "Alaskan "Imagineer", 1994
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