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Walter Joseph "Wally" Hickel (born August 18 1919) is an American Republican politician who was the Governor of Alaska from 1966 to 1969, and again from 1990 to 1994. He resigned on January 29 1969 to be United States Secretary of the Interior from 1969 to 1970 under President Richard Nixon.During his first term as governor Hickel was elected as a member of the U.S. Republican Party. By 1990, however, he had come to sympathize with the Alaskan Independence Party, and he was elected that year as an independent, defeating Democrat Tony Knowles. However, he rejoined the Republican party in April 1994.
Hickel is also a real estate developer and chairman of Hickel Investment Company. He was born in Ellinwood, Kansas.
| Preceded by: (first term) William A. Egan | Governor of Alaska 1966-1969, 1990-1994 | Succeeded by: (first term) Keith Harvey Miller |
| Preceded by: (second term) Steve Camberling Cowper | Succeeded by: (second term) Tony Knowles | |
| Preceded by: Stewart Udall | U.S. Secretary of the Interior 1969-1970 | Succeeded by: Rogers Morton |
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