Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Juneau s Katie Hurley has passed at the age of 99.
She passed on Sunday, according to Juneau lawmakers.
She was born in Juneau on March 30, 1921, and became known as the Grand Dame of Alaska politics , according to Juneau Senator Jesse Kiehl who remembered her on the Senate floor Monday.
Hurley began her political career in 1944 as an assistant to Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening and served him until he left office in 1953.
She served as chief secretary to the Alaska Constitutional Convention and spent five terms as the Secretary for the Alaska State Senate.
After moving to Wasila in 1963, Hurley represented the town in the state House of Representatives from 1985 to 1986.
Katie Hurley, Alaska political figure dating back to territorial days, has died at age 99 Published February 22
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Print article Katie Hurley, a longtime Mat-Su political figure and a participant in the drafting of Alaska’s Constitution, died Sunday in Portland, Oregon, at age 99, her daughter said. Hurley got her start in politics when she joined the office of Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening in 1940. She became secretary of the territorial state and was chief clerk to the Alaska Constitutional Convention in 1955 and 1956. Hurley served as president of the Alaska Board of Education, executive director of the state Women’s Commission, state Senate secretary for five sessions and on Gov. William Egan’s statehood transitional staff.