Talk:Keith Harvey Miller

Arthur C. Anderson case

I'm not sure why this case is on Keith Miller's page. The case was over the ownerships of moon rocks stolen from the Alaska State Museum after a fire. The state retrieved the rocks and a plaque. The case can be found at Activist (talk) 20:32, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

This case does not have anything to do with the former accounting firm, Arthur Anderson. Activist (talk) 20:32, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

It's been removed. No RS, not proper link, etc. – S. Rich (talk) 15:38, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

This was all in regards to Alaska lunar sample displays, which had little to do with Miller other than the fact that he was governor when they came into the possession of the State of Alaska. I see there is an entire series devoted to lunar sample displays in various U.S. states. Something tells me that someone lacks understanding of WP:NOTNEWS, not to mention the obvious lack of understanding of Alaska; the Alaska State Museum and the Alaska Museum of Transportation and Industry are two entirely separate entities, and in fact, I'm pretty sure the latter is a private museum. RadioKAOS  – Talk to me, Billy 21:54, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

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Cleanup and differences between sources

This first came to my attention about 24 hours ago. I was in the middle of fixing my failing wi-fi router, so I had to wait until after work today to make it to a place which had copies of Who's Who in Alaskan Politics and Prudhoe Bay Governor to start with. It appears that most coverage I've seen yesterday and today consists of repeating what the AP reported and that their fact checking consisted of an interview with Miller's stepdaughter. As he has been the subject of coverage in reliable sources since before I was born, obviously there is bound to be conflict.

To start with the issues I raised at ITN/C, there's the matter of the article title. When someone began the coverage of Alaska's governors however many years ago, the article titles they chose were based on how they appeared in one particular source. Many other articles have since been moved to other titles and it's time to look at this one, too.

From the NewsBank archive of the Anchorage Daily News

• 144 hits for "Keith Miller"
• 8 hits for "Keith H. Miller"
• 0 hits for "Keith Harvey Miller"

Even considering duplicates and false positives, zero is still zero. There is also the archive of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner at newspaperarchive.com. It doesn't appear to allow me to search for exact terms, but as you can see here, the top hits are all coming up either "Keith Miller" or "Keith H. Miller". Same with the search of Alaska libraries here. Even though "Keith Harvey Miller" is used by the catalog's index to identify him, the hits themselves all use either "Keith Miller" or "Keith H. Miller".

Then there's the matter of the article content. It may take some time to go through and straighten things out. I'll try and come back to this as time allows, but I have to run for the day after I'm done here. The AP obviously had a few things wrong. Miller did come to Alaska for the first time in 1946, but it was on a steamship with a war buddy through Southeast, where they spent several days apiece in Juneau and Skagway. He did return to Alaska in the 1940s, but he didn't work as a dock hand. Fairbanks is far inland and the only docks to be found are small ones on the Chena River or area lakes. He worked as a DECK hand on a gold dredge for the Fairbanks Exploration Company during two successive summers. His activities in Washington state were still his primary concern, and he only moved to Alaska full-time in 1957. After fifteen months of working for the IRS, he filed on the Talkeetna homestead. He did prove it up and obtain title, but it wasn't a major endeavor apart from the reputation he earned associated with it. It's quite possible that he was in Talkeetna for a shorter period than he was in Fairbanks prior to his election as secretary of state, where he held the same position with Consolidated Freightways that George M. Sullivan held before Sullivan was promoted and transfered to Anchorage.

Here's the capsule biography from the back of Prudhoe Bay Governor:

Former Alaska Governor Keith Miller is a native of Seattle, Washington and a descendant of pioneer Alaskans (ed note: his father's side of the family moved to Alaska around 1913 and lived there briefly before returning to the Pacific Northwest). He is the only person to have served in the Alaska House and Senate, as Secretary of State (Lt. Governor) and as Governor of Alaska.

Miller is a U.S. Army Air Corps World War II veteran and a 1952 graduate of the University of Washington. After co-founding a business in Seattle and making several extended trips to Alaska, he moved to Anchorage with his first wife in 1957. They later homesteaded at Talkeetna before he successfully ran for the legislature in 1962.

In 1966 he and Walter Hickel were elected to the top two offices in the state. When Hickel resigned to become U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Miller became Governor. He and his second wife, Jean, now live in Florence, Oregon.

Hope this helps. If you need any further assistance, let me know. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 04:19, 8 March 2019 (UTC)