Scott Cordelle Bone

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Governor Scott Cardelle Bone was the tenth Territorial Governor of Alaska, serving from 1921-1925. A Republican, he was appointed by President Warren G. Harding.

He is perhaps best known for making the decision to use dog sleds to transport diptheria antitoxin 674 miles rather than use a plane in the now famous 1925 Serum Run, (also known as the "Great Race of Mercy") from which the Iditarod sled dog race stems.

He was born in Shelby County, Indiana to Alfred P. and Louisa M. Deacon Bone on February 15, 1860. He married Mary Worth on June 5, 1887.

He led a very productive life, belonged to numerous organizations and held almost as many positions such as; chairman of the Alaska Bureau of the seattle Chamber of Commerce, delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention, member (and at one time president of) the Gridiron Club, member of the National Press Association, director of publicity for the Republican National Committee, life member of the Red Cross, the Yacht and Country Club of Tampa Florida, a life member of the Decorated Order of Sacred Treasure of Japan, and a member of the Elks.

He also worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Washington Post, and founded the Washington Herald.

Scott C. Bone authored “Alaska, Its Past, Present, and Future”, “Chechahco and Sourdough: A Story of Alsaka”, “Sketches of Statesmen”, and “Political Remembereances”.

He was close friends and associates with Pres. Warren G. Harding, Pres. William Howard Taft, Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, and Alice Roosevelt.

On Sunday, January 26, 1936 Scott C. Bone suffered a heart attack and died the following night in his home in Santa Barbara, California, surrounded by family.

Written by Misty S. Bone, great-great-great grand-daughter of Scott C. Bone.

Suggested Links:

http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bondurant-boog.html

http://www.iditarod/serum_run.html

Suggested Reading:

"The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic" Gay & Laney Salisbury

Preceded by: Thomas Christmas Riggs, Jr.

Territorial Governor of Alaska 1921–1925

Succeeded by: George Alexander Parks

Governors of Alaska
District: Kinkead • Swineford • Knapp • Sheakley • Brady • Hoggatt • Clark Territorial: Clark • Strong • Riggs • Bone • Parks • Troy • Gruening • Heintzleman • Hendrickson • Stepovich • Hendrickson State: Egan • Hickel • Miller • Egan • Hammond • Sheffield • Cowper • Hickel • Knowles • Murkowski • Palin