Linda R. Greenstein is an American attorney and politician who has served since 2010 as a member of the New Jersey Senate representing the 14th legislative district. She previously served in the General Assembly from 2000 to 2010.
Since becoming a U.S. state in 1959,Alaska has been entitled to one member in the United States House of Representatives,elected in the state's sole,at-large congressional district. By area,Alaska's congressional district is the largest congressional district in the United States,and is the second largest electoral district represented by a single member in the world,behind only Nunavut's sole electoral district in Canada.
Leland Chancy Croft is a workers' compensation attorney and Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of Alaska. Elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1968,he served a single term from 1969 to 1971. He was then elected to the Alaska Senate,serving in that body from 1971 to 1979,including serving as the president of the Senate from 1975 to 1977 during the 9th Alaska State Legislature.
The 1980 United States Senate election in Alaska was held on November 4,1980. Incumbent Democratic United States Senator Mike Gravel ran for a third term in the United States Senate,but lost in the Democratic primary to Clark Gruening,a former state representative who was the grandson of Ernest Gruening,whom Gravel had defeated twelve years prior in an election for the same seat. Gruening later went on to lose the general election to Republican nominee Frank Murkowski,a banker.
Mary Sattler Peltola is an American politician and former tribal judge serving as the U.S. representative from Alaska's at-large congressional district since September 2022. She previously served as a judge on the Orutsararmiut Native Council's tribal court,executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission,and member of the Alaska state legislature.
Bob Lynn was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives,representing the 31st district from 2003 to 2013 and the 26th district from 2013 to 2017. He served as Chair of the State Affairs Committee,was Vice-Chair of the Judiciary Committee,and was a member of the Transportation Committee and Joint Armed Forces Committees. He also served on the Labor &Workforce Development,Military &Veterans' Affairs,and Public Safety Finance Subcommittees,for the 28th Legislature. Bob Lynn is a retired fighter pilot with the United States Air Force and a Vietnam Veteran.
Bob Herron is a Democratic former member of the Alaska House of Representatives,representing the 38th District from 2009 until 2017. Herron was the Majority Whip,granting him the distinction of being the only Representative in the United States elected as a Democrat who served as a statewide leader of a Republican party-majority legislative body. The official job of the Whip is to make sure that House members vote in line with Republican leadership.
The Libertarian Party of Alaska is the affiliate of the Libertarian Party (LP) in Alaska,headquartered in Anchorage.
Carl Eugene Moses was an American businessman from Unalaska,Alaska who served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1965 to 1973 as both a Republican and Democrat,and was elected again to the House in 1992 running on the Alaskan Independence Party ticket,later switched back to the Democrats,and served until 2007. Moses served a total of eleven full terms in the Alaska House,making him the longest-serving member in the history of that body. In the 2006 primary election,Moses was defeated for renomination by Bryce Edgmon,losing via a coin toss after the election results wound up in court and were later certified by the state of Alaska as ending in a tie vote.
G. William Diamond is an American Democratic politician,educator,small business owner,legislator and former Maine Secretary of State. Diamond currently serves in the Maine Senate representing Senate District 26,which comprises the towns of Windham,Raymond,Standish,Casco,Baldwin and Frye Island.
Douglas W. Isaacson is an American politician and a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives from District 1. He represented the 1st district from January 18,2013 –January 15,2015.
Lynn Gattis is an American politician. She served as Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives from January 2013 to January 2017 representing Districts 9 and 7.
Peter Gene Kelly is an American politician who served as a member of the Alaska Senate. He also served as President of the Alaska State Senate from 2017 to 2019. Kelly previously served in the Alaska Legislature in the Alaska House of Representatives and Senate from 1995 until 2003. He was defeated for re-election in 2018,losing to state representative Scott Kawasaki.
Kevin Gerald Meyer is an American politician serving as the 14th lieutenant governor of Alaska since 2018. He was a Republican member of the Alaska Senate from January 20,2009 to December 3,2018,representing District M. He was president of the Alaska Senate,leading a caucus of 14 Republicans and 1 Democrat from 2015 to 2017. Meyer served in the Alaska Legislature continuously from 2003 to 2018,in both the Alaska House of Representatives and Senate,previously representing the district when it was District O. He works as an investment recovery coordinator for ConocoPhillips.
Hal G. Wick was an American politician and a Republican member of the South Dakota House of Representatives representing District 12 from January 11,2011 to January 13,2015. Wick previously served several non-consecutive terms from January 1977 until January 1981 in District 11,from January 1995 until January 1999 and from January 2001 until January 2009 in the District 12 seat,but ran for South Dakota Senate in 2008 due to the state's term limits.
The 1970 United States Senate special election in Alaska was held on November 3,1970. Republican U.S. Senator Ted Stevens was appointed on December 24th,1968 following the death of Bob Bartlett in the middle of his second term. Stevens won the special election for the right to serve the remainder of Bartlett's term,which expired on January 3rd,1973. After completing his term,Stevens would go on to serve 6 more full terms until his defeat in 2008.
Percy Willis Watson is an American politician. He is a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 103rd District,being first elected in 1980. He is a member of the Democratic party.
Jeremy Allen Moss is a Democratic politician from Michigan currently representing the 11th State Senate District,which includes Farmington,Farmington Hills,Ferndale,Hazel Park,Huntington Woods,Lathrup Village,Madison Heights,Oak Park,Pleasant Ridge,Royal Oak Township,and Southfield. Prior to his election to the Michigan Senate,he served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2014 - 2018,and remains the youngest-ever member of the Southfield City Council.
Stanley Preston Cornelius was an American country musician,lawyer,politician and record producer. Cornelius was born on October 15,1941,in Bremerton,Washington,one of three children born to Starling P. "Star" Cornelius (1916–1986) and wife Virginia. 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 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.
