Treg Taylor | |
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| 33rd Attorney General of Alaska | |
| Assumed office January 30, 2021 Acting: January 30, 2021 – May 11, 2021 | |
| Governor | Mike Dunleavy |
| Preceded by | Ed Sniffen (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Jodi |
| Children | 6 |
| Education | Brigham Young University (BA,JD) |
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Tregarrick R. Taylor is an American lawyer serving since 2021 as the Alaska attorney general. He succeeded Ed Sniffen,who resigned after being appointed to the position two weeks before. [1] [2]
Taylor briefly attended the United States Air Force Academy.[ citation needed ] He graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and from BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School in 2004 with a Juris Doctor. [3]
In 2016,Taylor was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the Anchorage Municipal Assembly. [4] Taylor has served as the deputy attorney general of Alaska for the civil division. [5] Taylor assumed office as Alaska attorney general in an acting capacity January 30,2021. He was confirmed to the position by the Alaska Legislature on May 11,2021. [6]
Taylor supported the Pebble Mine proposal and expressed opposition to the federal government's decision to block the project. [7]
He has threatened legal action against Walgreens over the potential distribution of abortion pills in Alaska,even though abortion and the relevant medications remain legal in Alaska. [8]
Taylor and his wife,Jodi,have six children and live in Anchorage. [9]
Walgreen Company is an American company that operates the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States,behind CVS Health. It specializes in filling prescriptions,health and wellness products,health information,and photo services. It was founded in Chicago in 1901,and is headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield,Illinois. On December 31,2014,Walgreens and Switzerland-based Alliance Boots merged to form a new holding company,Walgreens Boots Alliance. Walgreens became a subsidiary of the new company,which retained its Deerfield headquarters and trades on the Nasdaq under the symbol WBA.
Mark Peter Begich is an American politician and lobbyist who served as a United States senator from Alaska from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as mayor of Anchorage from 2003 to 2009.
Benjamin Aavan Stevens was an American politician and political advisor who served as the Chief of Staff to the Governor of Alaska,Mike Dunleavy. He previously served as the President of the Alaska State Senate as a member of the Republican Party. Stevens was the son of the late United States Senator Ted Stevens,who represented Alaska from 1968 to 2009.
Leslie S. Gara is a Democratic former member of the Alaska House of Representatives,having represented the 23rd District from 2003 to 2019. Gara is also a former assistant attorney general and part owner of a local restaurant in Anchorage,Snow City Cafe.
Craig Eaton Campbell is an American politician and businessman who served as the president and CEO of the Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC). He joined the corporation as chief operating officer in February 2011,and was appointed president and CEO by the board of directors in October 2012.
Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Alaska since October 12,2014,with an interruption from October 15 to 17 while state officials sought without success to delay the implementation of a federal court ruling. The U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska held on October 12 in the case of Hamby v. Parnell that Alaska's statutory and constitutional bans on same-sex marriage violated the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution. On October 15,state officials obtained a two-day stay from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,which the U.S. Supreme Court refused to extend on October 17. Although Alaska is one of a few states which enforces a three-day waiting period between requesting a marriage license and conducting a marriage ceremony,at least one same-sex couple had the waiting period waived immediately after the district court's ruling. They married in Utqiagvik on October 13 and were the first same-sex couple to marry in Alaska.
Michael James Dunleavy is an American educator and politician serving since 2018 as the 12th governor of Alaska. A Republican,he was a member of the Alaska Senate from 2013 to 2018. He defeated former U.S. senator Mark Begich in the 2018 gubernatorial election after incumbent governor Bill Walker dropped out of the race. He was reelected in 2022.
William Martin Walker is an American attorney and politician who served as the 11th governor of Alaska,from 2014 to 2018. He was the second Alaska-born governor,after William A. Egan.
The 2018 Alaska gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Alaska. In the primaries for recognized political parties,candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run separately. The winners of each respective primary for governor and lieutenant governor then become a joint ticket in the general election for their political party. Incumbent Independent governor Bill Walker was seeking re-election in what was originally a three-way race between Walker,Republican former Alaska state senator Mike Dunleavy,and Democratic former Alaska U.S. Senator Mark Begich. Despite Walker dropping out on October 19,2018,and endorsing Begich,Dunleavy won in what was the only gubernatorial gain by a Republican candidate in 2018. As of 2024,this was the last time the Governor's office in Alaska changed partisan control. Walker later unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Alaska in 2022.
Kevin G. Clarkson is an American attorney from the state of Alaska who was the 32nd Alaska Attorney General from 2018 to 2020.
Abortion in Alaska is legal at all stages of pregnancy. In September 2024,an Alaska superior court judge struck down the requirement that only licensed physicians provide abortions,meaning that the procedure can now also be legally performed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants. As of 2016,Alaska does not require a minor to notify a parent or guardian in order to obtain an abortion. 63% of adults said in a poll by the Pew Research Center that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. The 2023 American Values Atlas reported that,in their most recent survey,69% of Alaskans said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Alaska was one of only four states to make abortion legal between 1967 and 1970,a few years before the US Supreme Court's decision in 1973's Roe v. Wade ruling. Alaska had consent requirements for women seeking abortions by 2007 that required abortion providers to warn patients of a link between abortion and breast cancer,despite it being scientifically unsupported.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Alaska on March 12,2020.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic,anti-abortion government officials in several American states enacted or attempted to enact restrictions on abortion,characterizing it as a non-essential procedure that can be suspended during the medical emergency. The orders have led to several legal challenges and criticism by abortion-rights groups and several national medical organizations,including the American Medical Association. Legal challenges on behalf of abortion providers,many of which are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood,have successfully stopped some of the orders on a temporary basis,though bans in several states have not been challenged.
The 2022 Alaska gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday November 8,2022,to elect the governor of Alaska. Incumbent Republican governor Mike Dunleavy won re-election to a second term,becoming the first Republican governor to be re-elected to a second term since Jay Hammond in 1978 and the first governor,regardless of political affiliation,to be re-elected to a second term since Tony Knowles in 1998.
Dario Borghesan is an American lawyer from Alaska who is an associate justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.
Clyde "Ed" Sniffen Jr. is an American attorney who served as acting Alaska attorney general from August 25,2020,to January 30,2021,in the administration of Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy. Sniffen had assumed office after the resignation of his predecessor,Kevin Clarkson,amid allegations of texting with an employee of the governor's office. Sniffen resigned in January 2021 after allegations of the existence of an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old high school girl whom he coached in 1991 surfaced. Three charges related to the allegations were filed in Alaska on May 27,2022.
Deseret nationalism,popularized online as #DezNat,is a far-right Mormon nationalist movement in the United States. It originated in 2018 following the Unite the Right rally by Logan Smith,a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The term originated as a Twitter hashtag,collecting upwards of 114,000 original posts.
Jennifer Erin Henderson is an American lawyer from Alaska who has served as an associate justice of the Alaska Supreme Court since 2021. She was previously a judge of the Anchorage Superior Court from 2017 to 2021 and of the Alaska District Court from 2012 to 2017.
Emma Leigh Broyles is an American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Alaska 2021 and Miss America 2022 on December 16,2021,its 100th anniversary. She is the first Miss Alaska to be crowned Miss America. She is also the first titleholder outside of the contiguous United States since Angela Perez Baraquio of Hawaii in Miss America 2001.
John Eric Havelock was the Attorney General of Alaska from 1971 to 1973,a champion of individual privacy and Native American resource and subsistence rights. Born in Toronto,Canada,Havelock moved to the United States and attended first boarding school,then Harvard University for an undergraduate degree and a Juris Doctor degree before moving to Alaska. After working for the Alaska Department of Law,Havelock worked as staff at the White House before his appointment as Attorney General of Alaska in 1970.
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