{"id":43193,"date":"2019-02-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/signer-of-alaska-constitution-jack-coghill-dies-at-age-93\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T18:50:57","slug":"signer-of-alaska-constitution-jack-coghill-dies-at-age-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/signer-of-alaska-constitution-jack-coghill-dies-at-age-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Signer of Alaska Constitution, Jack Coghill, dies at age 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; One of the last remaining members of the Alaska constitutional convention has died.<\/p>\n<p>Former Lt. Gov. Jack Coghill died Wednesday in North Pole. He was 93.<\/p>\n<p>His son, state Sen. John Coghill, said in a statement that his father had the same passion for Alaska in his last days as he did throughout his life.<\/p>\n<p>John Bruce Coghill was born in Fairbanks in 1925 and raised in Nenana.<\/p>\n<p>His father, an immigrant from Scotland, started a trading post in Nenana in 1912.<\/p>\n<p>Jack and his wife, Frances, over the years owned a movie theater, roadhouse, and fuel distribution company in Nenana, a river community south of Fairbanks.<\/p>\n<p>He served as mayor of Nenana for 22 years and was elected to terms in the state House and Senate.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 This is an Associated Press report.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was a political icon in the state. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":43194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-43193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43193"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=43193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}