Jack Coghill

John Bruce Coghill (September 24, 1925 – February 13, 2019) was an American politician and businessman. He was the 6th Lieutenant Governor of Alaska from 1990 to 1994 under Governor Walter Hickel. He was mayor of Nenana in the interior of Alaska for 22 years.

Coghill was a Republican, except from 1990 to 1994 where he was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party. He was well known in Alaskan political circles as "Mr. Republican."

Coghill was born in Fairbanks, Alaska. He died on February 13, 2019 at his son's home in North Pole, Alaska from a long-illness at the age of 93.

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