Click Bishop

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On May 5, 2025, Bishop filed a letter of intent to run for governor with APOC. This is the first step to participate in the 2026 Alaska gubernatorial campaign. [19]

Personal life

Darlene, Bishop’s wife, is Athabascan and a retired kindergarten teacher. They have two children. [7] [56]

A keen outdoorsman, Bishop has twice (1998 and 2000) won the Yukon 800 Mile Marathon speedboat race from Fairbanks to Galena, Alaska and back. [57] [7] He mines gold at a placer mine near his cabin at Manley Hot Springs, where he and Darlene honeymooned in 1976. [7] [58]

Bishop is an active member of the Pioneers of Alaska, a statewide historical preservation society. [59]

References

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Click Bishop
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Bishop in January 2019
Member of the Alaska Senate
In office
January 18, 2013 January 21, 2025