Douglas Todd Staples is the President of the Texas Oil &Gas Association,the oldest and largest oil and gas trade association in Texas representing all facets of the industry including production,pipelines,refineries and export facilities. Staples is the former two-term Texas Commissioner of Agriculture and served with distinction in the Texas Senate and House of Representatives for 12 years. He unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in 2014.
Eric Chancy Croft is an American attorney and politician who represented Anchorage's West district on the Anchorage Assembly from 2016 to 2019. From 1997 to 2006,Croft served as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives for District 15,representing Spenard,Anchorage. He was also a candidate in the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial election. He received 23.1% of the vote,losing to 68.6% achieved by former governor Tony Knowles. Croft served as Anchorage's school board president from 2013 to 2016. In April 2016,he was elected to the Anchorage Assembly,replacing Ernie Hall,who decided not to run for reelection.
Bill P. Wielechowski is an American lawyer serving as a Democratic member of the Alaska Senate representing District K,which is located in Northeast Anchorage,Alaska. Prior to the 2022 redistricting process,he represented District H from 2015 to 2023. Wielechowski also previously represented District J from 2007 to 2013.
Bettye Jean Davis was an American social worker and politician. She was the first African-American to be elected as an Alaska State Senator in 2000.
Lyda N. Green was an American educator and Republican politician in the U.S. state of Alaska. Green,as a political newcomer,was elected to the Alaska Senate in 1994,defeating a 22-year Democratic incumbent in a district representing most of the population of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Two Democratic members of the Alaska House of Representatives,also from the Matanuska-Susitna Valley,were defeated in the same election. Green served a total of fourteen years in the Senate and was its president in her final two years in office.
Lesil Lynn McGuire is an American politician in the state of Alaska. She served as a Republican member of the Alaska Senate from 2007 until 2017,after her tenure as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 2000 through 2006. She served Senate District N until redistricting in 2012 placed her in District K for 2013.
Woodie West Salmon is a Gwich'in Indian who was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives,representing the 6th District from 2005 to 2011. Woodie was born in the small city of Fort Yukon,Alaska,where his career in politics began. He currently resides in the small town of Chalkyitsik,Alaska,with his wife,Katelyn Englishoe,and serves as Chief of the Chalkyitsik Village Council.
Scott Jiu Wo Kawasaki is an American healthcare professional and politician from Alaska. A Democrat,he is a member of the Alaska Senate representing the state's District P,which includes neighborhoods within the city limits of Fairbanks.
Ralph Samuels is a businessman and a member of the Republican Party and candidate for Governor of Alaska,that served as a state representative of the Alaska State Legislature from 2002 to 2008 representing House District 29 and serving as the majority leader.
Catherine Norah Muñoz is an American politician who was a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives,who from 2009 to 2017 represented the 34th District. She served as Co-Chair of the Community and Regional Affairs Committee,Vice-Chair of the Education Committee,and served two terms on the House Finance Committee. She served as Co-Chair of the Community &Regional Affairs Committee and Vice-Chair of the Education Committee. Muñoz has been a small business owner since 1988. She was appointed by Governor Michael J. Dunleavy in 2018 to serve as the Deputy Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Muñoz was a third-generation member of the Alaska Legislature. Her father served in the Alaska House and Senate,her grandfather as the mayor of Douglas,Alaska and in the Territorial and State Senates,and her grandmother served in the Territorial House.
John Bruce Coghill Jr. is an American politician who served as a member of the Alaska Senate,representing North Pole and other communities in the Fairbanks North Star Borough. First elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1998,he was appointed to his Senate seat in 2009 and was the Senate's majority leader from 2013 to 2016. During his Senate tenure,he served as Rules Committee chairman. In 2020,he lost re-election by 14 votes to fellow Republican Robert Myers Jr.,who defeated him in the state's Republican primary election.
Anna MacKinnon is an American Republican politician who is formerly a member of the Alaska Senate,representing District G from 2013 to 2018. Prior to that,she served in the Alaska House of Representatives,representing the 17th district,from 2007 to 2013. In the 26th Alaska State Legislature,she was a member of the House Finance Committee,and chair of the Education &Early Development,Labor &Workforce Development and the University Of Alaska Finance Subcommittees. She also represented Eagle River and Chugiak on the Anchorage Assembly from 1999 until being elected to the House. She was elected to each of these offices by defeating an incumbent in the election;her Assembly victory was over incumbent Ted Carlson,better known as the Anchorage police officer who arrested actor Steve McQueen in 1972. Her House victory came in the 2006 primary over incumbent Pete Kott,who by that point was involved in what became known as the Alaska political corruption probe,and who was later sentenced to federal prison. The probe also saw other longtime legislators leave office. Her Senate victory in 2012 came over longtime legislator Bettye Davis,who faced not only redistricting but a primary election challenge from former House member and congressional candidate Harry Crawford,whom Davis narrowly outpolled.
Louis Mead Treadwell II is an American businessman and politician who served as the 11th lieutenant governor of Alaska from 2010 to 2014. Treadwell also served as chair of the United States Arctic Research Commission from 2006 to 2010. He is a member of the Republican Party and was a candidate for the 2014 U.S. Senate election in Alaska.
The Office of the Federal Coordinator,Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects is an independent agency of the U.S. government. Congress created the Office in the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Act of 2004.
Larry Persily is a newspaper publisher and former Federal Coordinator of the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects 2010–2015. The office was charged with coordinating federal agency responses to private-sector efforts to develop a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to supply the North American market. The Federal Coordinator is nominated with advice and consent of the Senate by the President of the United States. He was nominated by Barack Obama on December 9,2009,and was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 10,2010. The office closed down in 2015 as the private companies turned their attention to a gas export project instead.
Catherine Andrea Giessel is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party,she has served as Majority Leader of the Alaska Senate since 2023. From 2013 to 2021,Giessel represented District N in the Alaska Senate,including Northeast Anchorage,Anchorage Hillside and the Turnagain Arm communities of Bird,Girdwood,Indian,and Anchorage,all within the Municipality of Anchorage. First elected in 2010 while identifying with Tea Party values,she has also served as the vice-chair of the state Republican Party and had a career in nursing. Following redistricting,she was elected to a different senate seat in 2012. Giessel serves as chair of the Resources Committee and is a member of the Senate Majority Caucus. After Senate President Pete Kelly was unseated in 2018,Giessel was elected president of the Alaska Senate,a post she held until 2021. Giessel returned to the Alaska Senate in 2023,representing the newly configured District E after defeating incumbent Republican Roger Holland. She serves as Senate majority leader in the 33rd Legislature,overseeing a coalition caucus of eight Republicans and nine Democrats.
William L. "Willie" Hensley,also known by his Iñupiaq name Iġġiaġruk,is a semi-retired Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Alaska known for his work regarding Native Alaskan land rights. Hensley played a critical role in the creation of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) of 1971,one of the largest and most important land claims by indigenous peoples in U.S. history. Hensley went on to serve a term in the Alaska House of Representatives (1967–1970),and then a four-year term in the Alaska Senate (1971–1974). Hensley also served another year in the Alaska Senate from 1987 to 1988,when he was nominated by 6th Governor of Alaska Steve Cowper.
Peter A. Micciche is an American politician and a Republican member of the Alaska Senate since January 15,2013,and before January 13,2023 representing District O. Micciche was previously the mayor of Soldotna,Alaska,and a member of its city council.
Gretchen Guess is an American businesswoman and politician.
Olga Katherine Torkelsen Hurley was the secretary to Alaska Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening from 1944 until his departure from office in 1953. She was Chief Clerk to the Alaska Constitutional Convention from 1955 to 1956 and the secretary to the State Senate for five terms. In 1984,she was elected to seat 16-A in the Alaska House,serving until January 1987.
