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Alaska was admitted to the Union on January 3, 1959. Alaska's
Dec 11, 1968 , Elected in 1958. , 1 , , rowspan=2 , 1 , rowspan=2 , Elected in 1958. , rowspan=7 nowrap , Jan 3, 1959 –
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Present , rowspan=3 , Elected in 2014. , rowspan=3 , 11 , , - style="height:2em" , , rowspan=3 , 11 , rowspan=3 , Re-elected in 2016. , - style="height:2em" , , - style="height:2em" , rowspan=3 , Re-elected in 2020. , rowspan=3 , 12 , , - style="height:2em" , , rowspan=3 , 12 , rowspan=3 , Re-elected in 2022. , - style="height:2em" , , - style="height:2em" , rowspan=2 colspan=5 , To be determined in the 2026 election. , rowspan=2, 13 , , - style="height:2em" , , 13 , colspan=5, To be determined in the 2028 election.
Alaska Senators, Representatives
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seats belong to Class 2 and Class 3. The state's current senators are Republicans Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Ann Murkowski ( ; born May 22, 1957) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator for Alaska, having held that seat since 2002. Murkowski is the second-most senior Republican woman in the Senate, after S ...
(serving since 2002) and Dan Sullivan (serving since 2015). A total of eight people have represented Alaska in the U.S. Senate. Ted Stevens
Theodore Fulton Stevens Sr. (November 18, 1923 – August 9, 2010) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1968 to 2009. He was the longest-serving Republican Senator in history at the time he left ...
was Alaska's longest serving U.S. Senator, serving from 1968 to 2009.
List of senators
, - style="height:2em" ! rowspan=5 , 1 , rowspan=5 align=left ,Bob Bartlett
Edward Lewis "Bob" Bartlett (April 20, 1904 – December 11, 1968), was an Alaska politician and a member of the Democratic Party.
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Ted Stevens
Theodore Fulton Stevens Sr. (November 18, 1923 – August 9, 2010) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1968 to 2009. He was the longest-serving Republican Senator in history at the time he left ...
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Republican can refer to:
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* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
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Mike Gravel
Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel ( ; May 13, 1930 – June 26, 2021) was an American politician and writer who served as a United States Senator from Alaska from 1969 to 1981 as a member of the Democratic Party, and who later in life twice ran for ...
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Republican can refer to:
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* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
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, rowspan=11 align=right , Frank Murkowski
Frank Hughes Murkowski (born March 28, 1933) is an American politician and a member of the Republican Party. He was a United States Senator from Alaska from 1981 until 2002 and the eighth governor of Alaska from 2002 until 2006. In his 2006 re- ...
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Republican
Republican can refer to:
Political ideology
* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
, rowspan=14 align=right , Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Ann Murkowski ( ; born May 22, 1957) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator for Alaska, having held that seat since 2002. Murkowski is the second-most senior Republican woman in the Senate, after S ...
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Mark Peter Begich ( ; born March 30, 1962) is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Alaska from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Mayor of Anchorage from 2003 to 2009.
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Republican
Republican can refer to:
Political ideology
* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
, rowspan=6 nowrap , Jan 3, 2015 –Present , rowspan=3 , Elected in 2014. , rowspan=3 , 11 , , - style="height:2em" , , rowspan=3 , 11 , rowspan=3 , Re-elected in 2016. , - style="height:2em" , , - style="height:2em" , rowspan=3 , Re-elected in 2020. , rowspan=3 , 12 , , - style="height:2em" , , rowspan=3 , 12 , rowspan=3 , Re-elected in 2022. , - style="height:2em" , , - style="height:2em" , rowspan=2 colspan=5 , To be determined in the 2026 election. , rowspan=2, 13 , , - style="height:2em" , , 13 , colspan=5, To be determined in the 2028 election.
In fiction
''They Shall Have Stars'', the first volume inscience fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...
writer James Blish
James Benjamin Blish () was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his '' Cities in Flight'' novels and his series of ''Star Trek'' novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. His novel '' A Case of Conscie ...
's ''Cities in Flight
''Cities in Flight'' is a four-volume series of science fiction novels and short stories by American writer James Blish, originally published between 1950 and 1962, which were first known collectively as the "Okie" novels. The series features ent ...
'' 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.
See also
* List of United States representatives from Alaska *United States congressional delegations from Alaska
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 ...
* Elections in Alaska
The number of elections in Alaska ( Iñupiaq: ''Alaaskam naliġagviat'') varies by year, but typically municipal elections occur every year, plus primary and general elections for federal and state offices occur during even-numbered years. Alaska ...
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Alaska Senators, Representatives
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Alaska
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U ...