1. John Eric Havelock was the Attorney General of Alaska from 1971 to 1973, a champion of individual privacy and Native American resource and subsistence rights.
15 Facts About John Havelock
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John Havelock supported or assisted in creating policies around the folliwng: the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, and traditional and subsistence fishing rights.
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John Havelock was born in Toronto, Canada and emigrated to the United States when he was fourteen years old.
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John Havelock attended boarding school in the US and then Harvard University, until he was drafted into the US Army where he served as a military police investigator.
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In 1967 John Havelock was named a Fellow at the White House, working as a special assistant to Orville Freeman, the Secretary of Agriculture.
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John Havelock was appointed as the state's Attorney General by Governor Bill Egan in 1970, an office he held for three years.
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John Havelock assisted in crafting the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act which negotiated and substantially preserved the rights of those Natives whose traditional lands overrode the crude oil deposits.
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John Havelock help to write the resource legislation that codified traditional and subsistence fishing rights, preserving conservation of fisheries and domination by "outside" interests and insulating against those of foreign corporations.
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John Havelock was elected to the board of the state bar association, representing the state bar at the American Bar Association.
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John Havelock took an appointment as the administrator of the Alaska Bar Association.
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John Havelock was a founding director of the University's Criminal Justice Center and its legal studies program.
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In 2012, John Havelock published a book, Let's Get It Right: Why We Need an Alaska Constitutional Convention, supporting the convening of a new state constitutional convention.
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John Havelock co-founded and headed the law firm Havelock and Duffy until his retirement in 2019.
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Shortly before he died, John Havelock reflected on his life and legacy.
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John Havelock married several times, the last being May 17,2008 to Mona Havelock who became his widow.