Alaska was admitted to the Union on January 3, 1959. Alaska's United States Senate seats belong to class 2 and class 3. The state's current senators are Republicans Lisa Murkowski (serving since 2002) and Dan Sullivan (serving since 2015). A total of eight people have represented Alaska in the U.S. Senate. Ted Stevens was Alaska's longest serving U.S. Senator, serving from 1968 to 2009.
Class 2 Class 2 U.S. senators belong to the electoral cycle that has recently been contested in 2002, 2008, 2014, and 2020. The next election will be in 2026. | C | Class 3 Class 3 U.S. senators belong to the electoral cycle that has recently been contested in 2004, 2010, 2016, and 2022. The next election will be in 2028. | ||||||||||
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| # | Senator | Party | Dates in office | Electoral history | T | T | Electoral history | Dates in office | Party | Senator | # | |
| 1 |  Bob Bartlett | Democratic | Jan 3, 1959 – Dec 11, 1968 | Elected in 1958. | 1 | 86th | 1 | Elected in 1958. | Jan 3, 1959 – Jan 3, 1969 | Democratic |  Ernest Gruening | 1 |
| Re-elected in 1960. | 2 | 87th | ||||||||||
| 88th | 2 | Re-elected in 1962.Lost renomination and then lost re-election as a write-in candidate. | ||||||||||
| 89th | ||||||||||||
| Re-elected in 1966.Died. | 3 | 90th | ||||||||||
| Vacant | Dec 11, 1968 – Dec 24, 1968 | |||||||||||
| 2 |  Ted Stevens | Republican | Dec 24, 1968 – Jan 3, 2009 | Appointed to continue Bartlett's term. Elected in 1970 to finish Bartlett's term. | ||||||||
| 91st | 3 | Elected in 1968. | Jan 3, 1969 – Jan 3, 1981 | Democratic |  Mike Gravel | 2 | ||||||
| 92nd | ||||||||||||
| Re-elected in 1972. | 4 | 93rd | ||||||||||
| 94th | 4 | Re-elected in 1974.Lost renomination. | ||||||||||
| 95th | ||||||||||||
| Re-elected in 1978. | 5 | 96th | ||||||||||
| 97th | 5 | Elected in 1980. | Jan 3, 1981 – Dec 2, 2002 | Republican |  Frank Murkowski | 3 | ||||||
| 98th | ||||||||||||
| Re-elected in 1984. | 6 | 99th | ||||||||||
| 100th | 6 | Re-elected in 1986. | ||||||||||
| 101st | ||||||||||||
| Re-elected in 1990. | 7 | 102nd | ||||||||||
| 103rd | 7 | Re-elected in 1992. | ||||||||||
| 104th | ||||||||||||
| Re-elected in 1996. | 8 | 105th | ||||||||||
| 106th | 8 | Re-elected in 1998.Resigned when elected Governor of Alaska. | ||||||||||
| 107th | ||||||||||||
| Dec 2, 2002 – Dec 20, 2002 | Vacant | |||||||||||
| Appointed to finish her father's term. | Dec 20, 2002 – present | Republican |  Lisa Murkowski | 4 | ||||||||
| Re-elected in 2002.Lost re-election. | 9 | 108th | ||||||||||
| 109th | 9 | Elected to a full term in 2004. | ||||||||||
| 110th | ||||||||||||
| 3 |  Mark Begich | Democratic | Jan 3, 2009 – Jan 3, 2015 | Elected in 2008.Lost re-election. | 10 | 111th | ||||||
| 112th | 10 | Lost renomination, but re-elected as a write-in candidate in 2010. | ||||||||||
| 113th | ||||||||||||
| 4 |  Dan Sullivan | Republican | Jan 3, 2015 – present | Elected in 2014. | 11 | 114th | ||||||
| 115th | 11 | Re-elected in 2016. | ||||||||||
| 116th | ||||||||||||
| Re-elected in 2020. | 12 | 117th | ||||||||||
| 118th | 12 | Re-elected in 2022. | ||||||||||
| 119th | ||||||||||||
| To be determined in the 2026 election. | 13 | 120th | ||||||||||
| 121st | 13 | To be determined in the 2028 election. | ||||||||||
| # | Senator | Party | Years in office | Electoral history | T | C | T | Electoral history | Years in office | Party | Senator | # |
| Class 2 | Class 3 | |||||||||||
They Shall Have Stars, the first volume in science fiction writer James Blish's Cities in Flight series, was published in 1950 and is set in a fictional 2013. A major character is Alaska Senator Bliss Wagoner, head of the Joint Congressional Committee on Space Flight, who is depicted as playing a crucial role in Humanity's spread into space. At the time of writing, Alaska was not yet a state and had no senators, but Blish correctly assumed that this would come about by 2013.
Since Alaska became a U.S. state in 1959, it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and member(s) of the House to two-year terms. Before becoming a state, the Territory of Alaska elected a non-voting delegate at-large to Congress from 1906 to 1959.
Since Montana became a U.S. state in 1889, it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years. Before the Seventeenth Amendment took effect in 1913, senators were elected by the Montana State Legislature. Members of the House of Representatives are elected to two-year terms, one from Montana's at-large congressional district. Before becoming a state, the Territory of Montana elected a non-voting delegate at-large to Congress from 1864 to 1889.
These are tables of congressional delegations from Indiana to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
