
Lyman Enos Knapp (5 November 1837-9 October 1904) was the Republican Governor of the District of Alaska from 20 April 1889 to 29 August 1893, succeeding Alfred P. Swineford and preceding James Sheakley.
Biography[]
Lyman Enos Knapp was born in Somerset, Vermont in 1837, and he was educated in Manchester. He served in the Union Army's 17th Vermont Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, and he was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, and the Siege of Petersburg. After the war, he published the Middlebury Register from 1865 to 1878, served as a probate judge from 1879 to 1889 and served in the State House from 1884 to 1885, and served as Governor of the District of Alaska from 1889 to 1893. He expanded Alaska's postal service, organized both a militia and an Indian police, and restricted seal hunting near Alaska due to clashes with Canada. He left office in 1893, and he became a lawyer in Seattle and became President of the Anti-Saloon League of Washington. He died in 1904.