John Henry Kinkead

✶December 10, 1826

†August 15, 1904

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John Henry Kinkead was an American businessman and politician who served as the third governor of Nevada and the first governor of the District of Alaska. Spending most of his life in the dry goods business, he was also Treasurer of Nevada Territory, a member of the Nevada Constitutional Convention in 1864, and the first United States official to hold office in Alaska.

3rd Governor of Nevada and 1st Governor of the District of Alaska (1826-1904)

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