- Born
- Died
- Birth nameWalter Joseph Hickel
- Nickname
- Wally
- Walter J. Hickel was born on August 18, 1919 in Ellinwood, Kansas, USA. He was married to Ermalee Strutz and Janice Cannon. He died on May 7, 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
- SpousesErmalee Strutz(1945 - May 7, 2010) (his death, 5 children)Janice Cannon(1941 - 1943) (her death, 1 child)
- Governor of Alaska: 5 December 1966 - 29 January 1969 and 3 December 1990 - 5 December 1994.
- US Secretary of the Interior under Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970.
- Son of Robert and Emma Zecha Hickel, tenant farmers of German descent in Claflin, Kansas. He was the eldest of 10 children.
- He won the Kansas State Golden Gloves welterweight title soon after leaving high school.
- Father of Theodore Hickel from his first marriage. Father of Robert Hickel, Walter Hickel Jr., Jack Hickel, Joseph Hickel, and Karl Hickel from his second marriage.
- You can't just let nature run wild. A tree looking at a tree really doesn't do anything.
- Let's find new ways, better ways of doing business so that our industries can prosper and our environment flourish at the same time. The right to produce is not the right to pollute. America must prove to itself as well as to others worldwide that it has the ability to clean up the garbage it has left in it's wake.
- Sure I'm a dreamer; that's what Wally Hickel is all about. Our goose that laid the golden egg, the North Slope oil, is running out, so we've got to build more geese.
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