Jack Coghill

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John B. (Jack) Coghill (born September 24, 1925 in Fairbanks, Alaska) is the former Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (served 1990-1994 under Walter Hickel), who was also a member of the Alaskan Independence Party. He was the mayor of Nenana in the interior of Alaska for 22 years, a territorial legislator, as well as state senator from the same area, and is also one of the signatories to the Alaska Constitution. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2004.

He married Frances Peterson, from Fairbanks, and had six children: Patty, John Jr., twins Jerry and Jim, Paula, and Jeff. His father, William A. Coghill, was a pioneer who hiked to the Interior from Valdez, worked as a printer for what is now the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, and then opened a trading post in Nenana. The Coghill Store is still in operation and owned by the family.

Jack had two older brothers, William F. (Col. U.S. Army Ret. & former CFO Alaska Railroad) and Robert A. Sr. (deceased, managed Coghill's Store after the death of William A.), who also stayed in Alaska their entire lives.