City Council member Winfield Ervin Jr. was appointed to serve as mayor until the April 2 elections.
[3] Manders became known as the "Lone Republican," because much of the rest of Alaska's prospective congressional delegation was dominated by Democrats such as Ernest Gruening, Bob Bartlett, Bill Egan and Ralph Rivers.
In 1958, after the U.S. Senate voted to admit Alaska as the 49th state, he told Time Magazine: "Did you ever see anybody stop a crowd on its way to a hanging?
Wait till the honeymoon is over and the taxes arrive ..."[4] In the ensuing special election, he made a bid for one of the new seats in the Senate, but failed to gain the nomination of the Republican Party.
Manders was a familiar sight in downtown Anchorage, where he was often seen walking with a cane and smoking a cigar.