The North Slope Borough is the northernmost borough in the US state of Alaska and thus,the northernmost county or equivalent of the United States as a whole. As of the 2020 census,the population was 11,031. The borough seat and largest city,comprising nearly 1/2 of the borough’s population,is Utqiaġvik,the northernmost settlement in the United States.
Northwest Arctic Borough is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census,the population was 7,793,up from 7,523 in 2010. The borough seat is Kotzebue. The borough was formed on June 2,1986.
Kotzebue or Qikiqtaġruk is a city in the Northwest Arctic Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the borough's seat,by far its largest community and the economic and transportation hub of the subregion of Alaska encompassing the borough. The population of the city was 3,102 as of the 2020 census,down from 3,201 in 2010. The city has received an All-America City award.
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.
Bryce Edgmon is a member of the Alaska House of Representatives,representing the 37th District. He served as speaker from 2017–2021. The district includes all or portions of the Kodiak Island Borough,Aleutians East Borough,Lake and Peninsula Borough,Bristol Bay Borough,and the Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area.
Donald William Stoltze is an American politician. A Republican,he was a member of the Alaska Senate representing District F. He was elected in 2014 after serving since 2003 as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from the 16th District.
Jay B. Ramras is an American businessman and politician. Ramras was a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives,being elected to the 10th District in 2004,and served three terms. He served as Chair of the Education Committee,Vice-Chair of the State Affairs Committee,and is a member of the Health &Social Services Committee and the Resources Committee. He also served on the Commerce,Community &Economic Development,Education &Early Development,Environmental Conservation,and Law Finance Subcommittees,for the 26th Legislature.
Wes Keller is a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives,representing the 14th District. He is currently serving as Co-Chair of the Health &Social Services Committee,Chair of the Administrative Regulation Review Committee,and is a member of the Community &Regional Affairs Committee,Education Committee,and the Fisheries Special Committee. He also serves on the Administration and Law Finance Subcommittees,for the 26th Legislature. Before elected to office Wes Keller was a building maintenance and construction contractor. Keller is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),serving as Alaska state leader.
Mike Hawker is a former Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives,representing the 28th District from 2003 to 2017. He served as Chair of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Budget &Audit Committee. He is former Co-chair of the Finance Committee and Ways and Means Committees. Mike Hawker is also a retired Certified Public Accountant and an Accounting and Management Consultant.
Mark Neuman was a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives,representing the 15th District from 2005 to 2020.
Michael Patrick Kelly was a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives,representing the 7th District from 2005 until 2011. In the 26th Alaska State Legislature,he served on the Finance Committee,chairing the Corrections and the Natural Resources Finance Subcommittee. He also served on the Fish &Game Finance Subcommittee.
William A. Thomas Jr. is a businessman,commercial fisherman,and politician from the U.S. state of Alaska. Thomas served as a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives from the 5th District,comprising scattered rural and semi-rural communities throughout Southeast Alaska and stretching westward to Prince William Sound,from 2005 to 2013. Thomas served in the majority his entire tenure in the House and held multiple chairmanships. Thomas gained a seat on the powerful House Finance Committee during his second term and would eventually co-chair the committee. Following redistricting,Thomas lost reelection in 2012 by 32 votes to 23-year-old Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins,a political newcomer who left Yale University to run.
Charles Michael Chenault is an American politician in the state of Alaska. Chenault served as a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 2001 to 2019,representing portions of the Kenai Peninsula Borough,where he has lived for most of his life. Chenault served as the body's speaker from 2009 to 2017. He lost his position as house speaker to Democrat Bryce Edgmon when three Republicans joined a coalition of Democrats to form a bipartisan house majority after the general election in November 2016.
Craig W. Johnson is an American politician who serves as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives. He originally served from 2007 to 2017 and began another term in 2023.
Segundo Llorente Villa,S.J. was a Spanish Jesuit,philosopher and author who spent 40 years as a missionary among the Yup'ik in the most remote parts of Alaska. In 1960,he won a seat in the 2nd Alaska State Legislature as a write-in candidate,becoming the state’s first Catholic priest elected to office,as well as one of two write-in candidates elected that year from rural Alaska. He wrote hundreds of essays and one dozen autobiographical books in Spanish and English about his life in Alaska. Llorente is called the "favorite son" of his hometown,Mansilla Mayor.
Catherine Andrea Giessel is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Alaska,who has served as a member of the Alaska Senate since 2023 and from 2011 to 2021. 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 will serve as Senate majority leader in the 33rd Legislature,overseeing a coalition caucus of eight Republicans and nine Democrats.
The 2012 Alaska general elections were held on November 6,2012. Primary elections were held on August 28,2012.
Benjamin P. Nageak is an American politician,having been a Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives between January 18,2013,and January 17,2017,representing District 40.
Pearl Kiyawn Nageak Brower is an American academic administrator. She was president of Iḷisaġvik College from 2012-2020.
Laura Mae Bergt was an Iñupiaq athlete,model,politician,and activist for the Iñupiat and other Indigenous Alaskans. Born in the Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska to bi-racial parents,she grew up in Nome and Kotzebue before attending high school in Sitka. Involved in the Native Olympic movement,she was both a nine-times winner of the Arctic Circle blanket toss event and served as chair of the World Eskimo Indian Olympics in 1966. She worked as a promoter for the new state of Alaska attending trade shows and making marketing appearances as a spokeswoman and guest on radio and television programs. From the 1960s,she worked in various policy positions at the tribal,local,state,and national level to address issues like disability,education,employment opportunities,housing,and poverty,and promoting the rights of Indigenous people.
