Arthur K. Delaney was an Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

n politician and the first mayor of Juneau, Alaska

Juneau, Alaska

The City and Borough of Juneau is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of the then-District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900...

, from 1900 to 1901. Delaney came to Alaska, originally seeking success from the Klondike Gold Rush

Klondike Gold Rush

The Klondike Gold Rush, also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush and the Last Great Gold Rush, was an attempt by an estimated 100,000 people to travel to the Klondike region the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1897 and 1899 in the hope of successfully prospecting for gold...

 of the late 1890s.

Arthur Delaney was born in Fort Ticonderoga

Fort Ticonderoga

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, New York. He was an attorney and judge, and a participant in Marks v. Shoup, a 1901 United States Supreme Court

Supreme Court of the United States

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 case. Additionally, he presided over Malony v. Adsit, a case which would also make it to the U.S. Supreme Court, on August 10, 1897; Delaney ruled in favor of the plaintiff, O. H. Adsit

O. H. Adsit

Ohlin H. Adsit was an Alaskan broker and politician, including mayor of Juneau, Alaska from 1902 to 1904. Adsit came to Alaska, originally seeking success from the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s....

, who would go on to be mayor of Juneau from 1902 to 1904.

Prior to moving to Alaska, he was a member of the Wisconsin Legislature

Wisconsin Legislature

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 and also a candidate for the U.S. Congress while serving as a U.S. Attorney in Milwaukee.

Arthur Delaney left Alaska in 1904, and died shortly thereafter in Paso Robles, California

Paso Robles, California

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.

Family

According to, Delaney had relatives in Everett, Washington

Everett, Washington

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, and a daughter, Katherine Delaney Abrams, an artist. He also had another daughter, Alma Delaney Teal.