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Gerald Heikes
The 2016 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska was held on November 8, 2016, to elect the U.S. representative from Alaska's at-large congressional district, who will represent the state of Alaska in the 114th United States Congress. The election coincided with the 2016 United States presidential election, 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as United States House of Representatives elections, 2016, other elections to the House of Representatives, United States Senate elections, 2016, elections in the United States Senate, and various United States elections, 2016#State elections, state and United States elections, 2016#Local elections, local elections. Incumbent Republican Party (United States), Republican U.S. Representative Don Young was re-elected to a twenty-third term in office. Republican primary Candidates Declared *Gerald Heikes, minister at Anchorage's nondenominational Bethel Chapel and perennial candidate *Jesse Tingley *Stephen Wright, US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Young
Donald Edwin Young (June 9, 1933 – March 18, 2022) was an American politician from Alaska. He is the List of members of the United States Congress by longevity of service, longest-serving Republican Party (United States), Republican in House history, having been the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for the state's at-large congressional district for 49 years, from 1973 until his death in 2022. Born and raised in California, Young moved to Alaska in 1959 after a stint in the U.S. Army. He worked various careers, including sailing and teaching, in the small city of Fort Yukon, Alaska, Fort Yukon, where he was elected mayor in 1964. He entered state politics two years later, when he won a seat in the Alaska House of Representatives, and advanced to the Alaska Senate in 1970. In 1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, 1972, he ran for a seat in the House of Representatives against incumbent Democrat Nick Begich Sr., Nick Begich. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaska Dispatch News
The ''Anchorage Daily News'' is a daily newspaper published by the Binkley Co., and based in Anchorage, Alaska. It is the most widely read newspaper and news website (adn.com) in the state of Alaska. The newspaper is headquartered in Anchorage, with bureaus in Wasilla and Juneau. History Early history The ''Anchorage Daily News'' was born as the weekly ''Anchorage News'', publishing its first issue January 13, 1946. The paper's founder and first publisher was Norman C. Brown. The early president of the paper's parent company was Harry J. Hill, who was also assistant treasurer of The Lathrop Company. This established the theory that Cap Lathrop was really behind the publication, but didn't wish to have his name formally associated with it, unlike his other newspapers such as the '' Fairbanks Daily News-Miner''. Brown did share Lathrop's views on the statehood issue. Brown became a leader in the short-lived mid-1950s movement to turn Alaska into a commonwealth rather than a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Alaska Fairbanks
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-, National Sea Grant College Program, sea-, and National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, space-grant research university in College, Alaska, United States, a suburb of Fairbanks, Alaska, Fairbanks. It is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska system. UAF was established in 1917 and opened for classes in 1922. Originally named the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, it became the University of Alaska in 1935. Fairbanks-based programs became the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1975. UAF is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity." In addition to the Fairbanks Troth Yeddha' campus, UAF encompasses six rural and urban campuses: Bristol Bay Campus in Dillingham, Alaska, Dillingham; Chukchi Campus in Kotzebue, Alaska, Kotzebue; the Fairbanks-based Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glaciology
Glaciology (; ) is the scientific study of glaciers, or, more generally, ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, climatology, meteorology, hydrology, biology, and ecology. The impact of glaciers on people includes the fields of human geography and anthropology. The discoveries of water ice on the Moon, Mars, Europa (moon), Europa and Pluto add an extraterrestrial component to the field, which is referred to as "astroglaciology". Overview A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock) formed from snow falling and accumulating over a long period of time; glaciers move very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers. Areas of study within glaciology include glacial history and the reconstruction of past glaciation. A glaciologist is a person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaskan Independence Party
The Alaskan Independence Party (AIP) is an Alaskan nationalist political party in the United States that advocates for an in-state referendum which would include the option of Alaska becoming an independent country. The party also supports gun rights, direct democracy, privatization, abolishing federal land ownership, and limited government. Wally Hickel was elected as the Governor of Alaska in 1990 under the Independence Party, making it one of the few third parties to have controlled a governor's seat; however, Hickel transferred to the Republican Party before the 1994 election. History Founding and early history In early 1973, Vogler founded Alaskans for Independence (AFI), originally to label a petition drive. Vogler wrote to local Alaskan newspapers and argued against the Alaskan statehood vote. In 1973, Vogler began circulating a petition seeking support for secession of Alaska from the United States. The ''Alaska'' magazine published a piece at that time in which Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaska Libertarian Party
The Libertarian Party of Alaska is the affiliate of the Libertarian Party (LP) in Alaska, headquartered in Anchorage. It is the third-largest active party in Alaska and has the highest percentage of registered Libertarians of any state. Since 2012 candidates running as Libertarians who have won the Democratic-Libertarian-Independence primary have always polled between 5% and 30% in at least one state or federal election every election. Since Libertarian presidential candidates were on the ballot in 1976, Alaska has been a stronghold for Libertarians with it being their best-performing state in every election until 1992 and was in the top five except in 2004 and 2008. Many of the first offices held by Libertarians were in Alaska. History The Alaskan Libertarian Party was founded shortly after the national party and grew to become a stronghold for the new party in the late seventies and throughout the eighties. In 1973 John Hospers and Tonie Nathan, the party's 1972 presidential ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaska Democratic Party
The Alaska Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in Alaska, headquartered in Anchorage. It is one of two major parties in Alaska, alongside the Alaska Republican Party. The Democratic Party holds the Alaska Senate in a coalition government. As of 2020, there are over 75,000 registered members of the Alaska Democratic Party. History In 1949, the Young Democrats of Alaska was established as a group. Except in U.S. presidential elections, the Alaska Democratic Party was very successful in the early days of statehood and the late territory days (pre-1959), featuring such characters as territorial governor and later national senator Ernest Gruening. Gruening was one of only two senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorized an expansion of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Bob Bartlett, also a Democrat, and erstwhile secretary of the territory, was the first senator from Alaska, and remained a senator until his death in 1968. Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Lieutenant Governors Of Alaska
The lieutenant governor of Alaska (Iñupiaq language, Iñupiaq: ''Alaskam Kavanaata Ikayuqtiksrautaa'') is the deputy elected official to the Governor of Alaska, governor of the U.S. state of Alaska. Unlike most Lieutenant governor (United States), lieutenant governors in the U.S., the office also maintains the duties of a Secretary of state (U.S. state government), secretary of state, and indeed was named such until August 25, 1970. Prior to statehood, the Alaska Territory, territorial-era Secretary of Alaska, who was appointed by the president of the United States like the governor, functioned as an acting governor or successor-in-waiting. Currently, the lieutenant governor Gubernatorial lines of succession in the United States#Alaska, accedes to the governorship in case of a vacancy. The lieutenant governor runs together with the governor in both the primary and the general election as a Slate (elections), slate. List See also * List of Alaska State Legislatures Notes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mead Treadwell
Louis Mead Treadwell II (born March 21, 1956) 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. Early life and education Treadwell was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Anne and Timothy Treadwell. He grew up in the Sandy Hook section of Newtown, Connecticut, where his father was the former first selectman of Newtown; the Timothy B. Treadwell Memorial Park named in his late father's honor. Treadwell attended Newtown Public Schools and attended Sandy Hook Elementary school. Treadwell attended high school at Newtown High School and was then appointed by Senator Lowell Weicker as a Senate Page and the Senate Page School in Washington, D.C. He then studied at the Hotchkiss School, in Lakeville, Connecticut, gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 United States Senate Election In Alaska
The 2014 United States Senate election in Alaska took place on November 4, 2014, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Alaska, State of Alaska, concurrently with the 2014 Alaska gubernatorial election, election of the governor of Alaska, as well as other elections to the 2014 United States Senate elections, United States Senate in other states and elections to the 2014 United States House of Representatives elections, United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. This was one of the seven Democratic-held Senate seats up for election in a state that Mitt Romney won in the 2012 United States presidential election in Alaska, 2012 presidential election. Incumbent Senator Mark Begich ran for re-election to a second term in office. Primary elections were held on August 19, 2014. Begich was renominated and the Republican Party (United States), Republicans picked former Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 United States Senate Election In Alaska
The 2010 United States Senate election in Alaska took place on November 2, 2010. Incumbent Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski was re-elected as a write-in candidate despite having been defeated in the Republican primary. Primary elections were held on August 24, 2010. Sitka Mayor Scott McAdams became the Democratic nominee, while attorney and former federal magistrate Joe Miller defeated Murkowski to become the Republican nominee. Miller was endorsed by the Tea Party movement and by former Governor Sarah Palin. Murkowski announced that despite her defeat in the Republican primary, she would run in the general election as a write-in candidate. In the general election, Murkowski garnered more than 100,000 write-in votes. Miller challenged 8,000 of those votes. The Associated Press and the Alaska GOP called the race in Murkowski's favor on November 17. Miller did not concede the race and instead filed legal challenges in federal and state court. On December 30, 2010, Alaska st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Miller (Alaska Politician)
Joseph Wayne Miller (born May 10, 1967) is an American attorney and politician. He is best known as the runner-up in both the 2010 United States Senate election in Alaska and the 2016 United States Senate election in Alaska. A member of the Republican Party, he was defeated by Republican Lisa Murkowski in both races. A Kansas native, Miller moved to Alaska with his family in the mid-1990s. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and received his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1995. Miller is a combat veteran of the 1991 Gulf War. Before running for U.S. Senate, Miller worked as an attorney in private general practice, a local government attorney, and a U.S. magistrate judge. Miller rose to national prominence as the Republican Party nominee and the Tea Party favorite in the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Alaska. After defeating incumbent U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary, Miller faced Democrat Scott McAdams in the gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
