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Show Maeser resident's! son appointed Alaskan atty. general "Wilson Condon is my choice to be Attorney General and head of the Department of Law," said Alaskan Governor Jay A. Hammon. The appointment of Condon, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Condon of Maeser, became effective when the Alaskan Attorney General Av Gross resigned June 16. Condon, who has been the deputy attorney general of Alaska since 1975, joined the Department of Law as an assistant attorney in 1971 and rapidly became the state's top legal official on its extensive oil and gas activities in Anchorage, Ala. He left Anchorage in 1975 to serve as deputy attorney in Juneau, Ala. Condo was born in Livingston, Mont., where his father was a naturalist and National Parks Administrator. In 1968. Condon entered Stanford's School of Law where he was an honor student for his work on various natural V - ,i 2 -i . 1 f v 1 p. "f 1 i i 1 WILSON CONDON resource projects. In 1970 he interned with the U.S. Commissioner of Education to help form the foundations for environmental education for the department. "I doubt that we have ever had an attorney general so thoroughly grounded and prepared for the increasing in-creasing demands of his important office." Governor Hammond said when he announced his choice. |