Editing Ted Stevens (section)

===Early legal career===
After graduating, Stevens went to work in the Washington, D.C., law offices of Northcutt Ely.<ref name="harvardlawreview"/><ref name="whitney-roadnorth">{{cite news|last=Whitney|first=David|date=August 9, 1994|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609200111/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AS&p_theme=as&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=headline(%22the%20road%20north%20needing%20work%22)%20AND%20section(all)%20AND%20date(all)&p_field_advanced-0=title&p_text_advanced-0=(%22the%20road%20north%20needing%20work%22)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=_rank_:D&xcal_ranksort=4&xcal_useweights=yes|archive-date=June 9, 2011|title=The road north: Needing work, Stevens borrows $600, answers call to Alaska|work=[[Anchorage Daily News]]|url-status=dead|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AS&p_theme=as&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=headline(%22the%20road%20north%20needing%20work%22)%20AND%20section(all)%20AND%20date(all)&p_field_advanced-0=title&p_text_advanced-0=(%22the%20road%20north%20needing%20work%22)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=_rank_:D&xcal_ranksort=4&xcal_useweights=yes}}</ref> Twenty years earlier, Ely had been executive assistant to [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]] [[Ray Lyman Wilbur]] during the [[Herbert Hoover|Hoover]] administration,<ref name="ely">{{cite web|last=Ely|first=Northcutt|date=December 16, 1994|url=http://www.redlandsfortnightly.org/papers/persgulf.htm|title=Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur: Third President of Stanford & Secretary of the Interior|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171415/http://www.redlandsfortnightly.org/papers/persgulf.htm |archive-date=March 3, 2016|url-status=live|access-date=June 5, 2007}}</ref> and, by 1950, he headed a prominent law firm specializing in [[natural resources]] issues.<ref name="whitney-roadnorth"/> One of Ely's clients, Emil Usibelli, founder of the Usibelli Coal Mine in [[Healy, Alaska]],<ref name="usibelli">Alaska Mining Hall of Fame Foundation. (2006). [http://alaskamininghalloffame.org/inductees/usibelli.php "Emil Usibelli (1893–1964)."] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820161622/http://alaskamininghalloffame.org/inductees/usibelli.php |date=August 20, 2016 }} Retrieved on 2007-06-05.</ref> was trying to sell coal to the military, and Stevens was assigned to handle his legal affairs.<ref name="whitney-roadnorth"/>