Stan Cornelius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Stan Cornelius

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1941

Place of Birth: Bremerton, Washington, United States

Date of Death: 29-Dec-2005

Profession: politician, singer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Stan Cornelius

  • Stanley Preston Cornelius (October 15, 1941 – December 29, 2005) was an American country musician, lawyer, politician and record producer.
  • Cornelius was born on October 15, 1941 in Bremerton, Washington, one of three children (two sons and a daughter) born to Starling P.
  • "Star" Cornelius (1916–1986) and wife Virginia (née Sloat).
  • The family moved to the then-Territory of Alaska in 1954 during the height of the Cold War and lived in a variety of communities in Interior and Southcentral Alaska before settling several years later in Alaska's largest city, Anchorage.
  • Cornelius attended Kodiak High School in Kodiak before transferring to Anchorage High School (now known as West Anchorage High School) during his senior year, where he graduated in 1958.
  • He briefly studied at Washington State University and the University of Oregon before attending Alaska Methodist University, where he graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science, the same year he married Mary Ann Randall.
  • He then attended the University of New Mexico School of Law, where he graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1967.Cornelius was admitted to the Alaska bar on October 18, 1968 and commenced a private law practice based in Anchorage.
  • The same year, he was elected as a Republican to the Alaska House of Representatives, garnering 14,065 votes in the at-large voting in the general election.
  • He served in the 6th Alaska State Legislature from District 8, a multi-member district which encompassed the greater Anchorage area and comprised approximately a third of the 40-member body.
  • The legislative achievement Cornelius is best remembered for today was sponsoring a resolution during the legislature's first session calling for Governor Keith Miller to designate October as "Country Music Month" in Alaska.
  • He declined running for another term in 1970, returning to his law practice.
  • He remarried in 1972 and had a son born the following year.Cornelius eventually moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he lived the remainder of his life and was involved in the city's country music scene, both as a singer and as a record producer.
  • He produced a number of songs, the best known of which was Johnny Paycheck's 1986 single "Old Violin".
  • He died of natural causes on December 29, 2005 at age 64.

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