The iconic Alaska newsman founded the Chugiak-Eagle River Star newspaper and briefly served as the only mayor the community ever had.
Lee Jordan shows off his"WE'RE IN" T-shirt on Monday, July 30, 2018 at Lee Jordan Field in Chugiak .
“If there was ever a pillar of this community, it was Lee Jordan,” said longtime area resident Finis Shelden, president of the Chugiak Area Business Association.Jordan was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1930. He came to Alaska in 1949 after enlisting in the Army, eventually settling in 1962 in Birchwood with his wife, Barbara.
The Jordans founded the Star in 1971 and published the paper until he sold it to Morris Communications in 2000.
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