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Anton Anderson

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In the 1930s, Anderson worked on the Matanuska Colonization Project, building infrastructure to support the settlement of the
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Anderson served on the Anchorage City Council before being appointed in 1956 to complete the term of Mayor
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to a Swedish father and an Irish mother. In 1914, he moved to the
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from 1956 to 1958. He has been called "Mr. Alaska Railroad".
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hydroelectric dam. In 1951, he was elected President of the
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He passed an engineering examination at 18: 363:, which he had overseen, was renamed the 343:American Society of Mechanical Engineers 847:20th-century mayors of places in Alaska 376: 867:American railroad mechanical engineers 262:(1892–1960) was chief engineer of the 887:New Zealand people of Swedish descent 335:United States Army Corps of Engineers 7: 892:New Zealand people of Irish descent 281:The Hodge Building (later renamed 14: 422:Nyman, Frank (February 1, 2004), 84:Serving as chief engineer of the 669: 216: 198: 16:American engineer and politician 842:20th-century American engineers 393:. 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Index

New Zealand
Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel
Alaska Railroad
Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel
Mayor of Anchorage
Ken Hinchey
Hewitt Lounsbury
United States
United States Army
US Army Corps of Engineers
World War II
Alaska Railroad
Mayor of Anchorage
Alaska

Begich Towers
Upper Moonlight
New Zealand
United States
Hoquiam, Washington
Seattle University
Anchorage, Alaska
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Matanuska Valley
World War II
United States Army Corps of Engineers
Eklutna River
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Ken Hinchey
Whittier

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