Luther Hess
![A portrait of Luther Hess from the early 1900s. Photo from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Archives](/uajourney/notable-people/fairbanks/luther-hess/Luther.jpg)
He served nine sessions of the Alaska Territorial Legislature as a Democrat and was speaker of the House in 1917 and president of the Senate in 1931 and 1935. Hess was the chairman of the divisional Selective Service Board in World War I and directed the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp. for six years. He died in 1954.
![Photograph of Luther Hess as he pans for gold. Photo from Rasmuson Library, Charles E. Bunnell Collection](/uajourney/notable-people/fairbanks/luther-hess/Mr-Hess.jpg)
![Photograph of George McKay, George Parks, Territorial Governor, and Luther Hess, taken on the steps of the Federal Building in Juneau, Alaska. Photo from Rasmuson Library, Charles E. Bunnell Collection](/uajourney/notable-people/fairbanks/luther-hess/Mr.-Hess-and-two-men.jpg)
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