Edmund N. Orbeck | |
Birth Name: | Edmund John Mick Orbeck |
Birth Date: | 16 September 1915 |
Birth Place: | West Union, Minnesota, U.S. |
Death Place: | Arizona, U.S. |
Office1: | Member of the Alaska Senate |
Appointer1: | William A. Egan |
Term Start1: | 1960 |
Term End1: | 1961 |
Office2: | Member of the Alaska House of Representatives |
Term Start2: | 1964 |
Term End2: | 1975 |
Party: | Democratic[1] |
Edmund N. Orbeck (September 16, 1915 – January 6, 2012) was an American football player, coach and politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives and the Alaska Senate.[2]
Orbeck was born in West Union, Minnesota. He played American football for the Los Angeles Bulldogs and Hollywood Rangers.[3] He then was a football coach at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1949.
In 1960, Orbeck was appointed to the Alaska Senate by Governor William A. Egan, serving until 1961. In 1964, he was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives, serving until 1975.
Orbeck died on January 6, 2012, in Arizona, at the age of 96.[4]