- Ted Stevens
Theodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens (born November 18 1923) is the senior United States Senator from Alaska. As the longest serving Republican in the Senate, Stevens served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2007. Stevens has had a six-decade career of government service, beginning with his service in World War II. In the 1950s, he held senior positions in the Eisenhower Interior department. - Mike Gravel
Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (born May 13, 1930), is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska for two terms, from 1969 to 1981. He is primarily known for his efforts in ending the draft following the Vietnam War and for having put into the public record the Pentagon Papers in 1971. He is currently a candidate for the 2008 Democratic nomination for President of the United States. - Don Young
Donald Edwin (Don) Young (born June 9, 1933) has been the sole congressman from Alaska in the United States House of Representatives since 1973 (map). He is a Republican. - Frank Murkowski
Governor Frank Murkowski signed a law Monday the four accounts to protect and improve the lives of Alaska's seniors.We are adding additional protection through monitoring and sanctions for people, try to use our elderly, based on their hard-earned savings or money they need for their retirement " , Said Murkowski. - Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Ann Murkowski (born May 22, 1957) is an American politician. She is currently the junior United States Senator from Alaska. She is the first U.S. Senator who was born in Alaska. She is Alaska's first female senator and the first woman ever elected to either chamber of Congress from Alaska. - Tony Knowles
Anthony Carroll "Tony" Knowles (born January 1, 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American Democratic politician and businessman who served as Governor of Alaska from December 1994 to December 2002. Barred from seeking a third consecutive term as governor in 2002, he ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2004 and again for governor in 2006. - Valerie Plame
Valerie Plame was no CIA paper-pusher. She was searching out intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. - Carlos Boozer
Carlos Austin Boozer, Jr. (born November 20 1981, in Aschaffenburg, West Germany (present Germany)) is an American professional basketball player currently with the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association. Boozer was a two-time Parade All-American in high school, leading the Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears to back-to-back state titles. He then played collegiately for Duke University, helping the team win the 2001 NCAA basketball tournament. - Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson is a former state representative for District 19, in Anchorage, Alaska in the Alaska State Legislature. Anderson was indicted December 6, 2006 for an alleged montary benefit of under $13,000 through his consulting business. Anderson was a consultant prior to being first elected in 2002 to the State House, making this case distinguishable from other public corruption cases nationally in the last five years and yielding an unpredictable trial result. - Ernest Gruening
Ernest Henry Gruening (February 6, 1887-June 26, 1974) was an American journalist and Democrat who was the Governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senator from Alaska from 1959 until 1969. Born in New York City, Gruening graduated from Harvard University in 1907 and from Harvard Medical School in 1912. He then forsook medicine to pursue journalism. Initially a reporter for the "Boston American" in 1912, … - Susan Butcher
Susan Howlet Butcher was a dog musher who rose to fame when she became the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, and went on to become the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years. - Nick Begich
Nicholas Joseph (Nick) Begich, Sr. was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Alaska. He disappeared after his plane crashed in 1972. - Steve Smith
Steven Smith (born May 6, 1985 in Alaska) is an American football wide receiver for the New York Giants. Sometimes he is referred to as Steven Smith to avoid confusion with fellow NFL receiver Steve Smith of the Carolina Panthers. - Jeff King
Jeff King (born February 6, 1956 in North Fork, California) is an American long distance musher who is well known for winning both the 1,049+ mi (1,600+ km) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across the U.S. state of Alaska (four times) and the 1,000 mi (1,600 km) Yukon Quest Sled Dog Race across the U.S. and Canada (once). King moved to Alaska in 1975 and began racing in 1980. A successful sled dog racer, he won the Yukon Quest in 1989, … - Mario Chalmers
Mario Chalmers (nicknamed Super Mario) is a guard for the University of Kansas basketball team. After becoming a starter in January 2006, Chalmers has posted several dominant performances, regularly being the lead scorer for the Jayhawks, and one of the reasons Kansas has been continuously ranked since the beginning of the 2006-2007 NCAA basketball season. Mario is also the farthest traveled Kansas basketball player, as a graduate of Bartlett High School in Anchorage, … - Bob Bartlett
Edward Lewis "Bob" Bartlett (April 20, 1904 - December 11, 1968) was an American politician, and was a member of the Democratic Party. Bartlett was born in Seattle, Washington. After graduating from the University of Alaska in 1925, Bartlett began his career in politics. A reporter for the Fairbanks Daily News until 1933, he accepted the position of secretary to Delegate Anthony Dimond of Alaska. - Martin Buser
Martin Buser (b. March 29, 1958 in Winterthur, Switzerland) is a champion of sled dog racing. Martin Buser began mushing at age seventeen in Switzerland. In 1979, Buser moved to Alaska to train and raise sled dogs full time. His training operation, Happy Dogs Kennels, is located in Big Lake, Alaska. He entered his first Iditarod in 1980, and has run every race since 1986, his third Iditarod. In twenty Iditarods, Buser has won the event four times, in 1992, 1994, 1997, … - Elmer E. Rasmuson
Elmer E. Rasmuson (1909-2000) was an Alaskan banker and philanthropist. He was Mayor of Anchorage from 1964-1967. - Noel Wien
Noel Wien was a pioneer aviator in the U.S. state of Alaska and founder of Wien Air Alaska, Alaska's first airline. Born in Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin, Wien learned to fly from Ray Miller in 1921 and became a barnstormer in Clarence W. Hinck's Federated Fliers Flying Circus. Wien saw an opportunity to fly in Alaska and migrated there with his brothers. In 1924, with his pilot license No. 39 signed by Federation Aeronautique Internationale Official Orville Wright in hand, … - Joe Redington
Joe Redington, Senior was an American dog musher and kennel owner, who is best known as the "Father of the Iditarod" dog sled race, which runs 1,049 miles¹ across the U.S.. state of Alaska. Redington was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma on February 1, 1917 and lived there until he was six years old. His mother left him shortly after his birth, and he grew up with his father and his brothers James and Ray. Joe Redington's father was a laborer who worked was a rancher, … - Daryn Colledge
Daryn Colledge (born February 11, 1982 in North Pole, Alaska), is a current American football offensive guard for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. He was drafted in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft, 47th overall, becoming the highest player ever drafted from the state of Alaska. He played college football at Boise State University. - Deedee Jonrowe
DeeDee Jonrowe (December 20, 1953) is an American kennel owner and dog musher who is a three-time runner up in the Iditarod dog sled race, and holds the fastest time ever recorded for a woman. She is a very popular figure in the sport, and her completion of the 1,049-mile+ (1,600+ km) race in 2003 just three weeks after completing chemotherapy for breast cancer received widespread publicity. - Colleen Shannon
Colleen Shannon was born in the U.S. state of Alaska, on April 14 1978, and was "Playboy"'s Playmate of the Month in January, 2004 and also was the magazine's 50th anniversary Playmate. She has toured the world as an accomplished DJ, usually playing hip hop or house music. She appeared on the ITV show "Love Island" and was evicted on 20 August 2006. - Herman Of Alaska
Herman of Alaska was the first saint to be canonized by the Orthodox Church in America. - Mitch Seavey
Mitch Seavey is an American dog musher, who won the 1,049-mile Iditarod dog sled race across the U.S. state of Alaska in 2004. Seavey competed in his first Iditarod in 1982, and in every race since 1995. In the 1995 race, he started in Seward, and completed the entire length of the Iditarod Trail. He won the 2004 Iditarod in 9 days, 12 hours, 20 minutes, and 22 seconds. He has also won the Copper Basin 300 twice, … - Dave Williams
David Aaron Williams (born March 12, 1979 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a left-handed pitcher for the New York Mets in Major League Baseball. Williams graduated in 1997 from Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Delaware, and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates the following year. He made his major league debut on June 6, 2001. He played 4 seasons in Pittsburgh, as both a starter and reliever. - Larry Csonka
Larry Csonka today Csonka was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987 and his #39 was retired by the Miami Dolphins in 2002 . Since his retirement, he has become a motivational speaker and has hosted several hunting and fishing shows for Outdoor Life Network . Csonka was also an analyst on the popular syndicated show American Gladiators from 1990-1993. - Dick Mackey
Dick Mackey is an American dog musher who won the 1,049-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across the U.S. state of Alaska in 1978 by the closest margin in the history of the event. His son, Rick Mackey, became the only legacy winner when he also won in 1983. His other son, Lance Mackey won the Iditarod 2007. In 1978, Mackey pulled ahead of Rick Swenson during the last leg of the race from Point Safety to Nome. - George M. Sullivan
George M. Sullivan (born c.1922) was Mayor of Anchorage from 1967-1982. His father was Harvey Sullivan, a U.S. District Marshal who had followed the Chilkoot Trail in 1898 to join the Klondike Gold Rush. Harvey Sullivan met the woman who would become George's mother (maiden name Murray) in Valdez, where she was serving as Postmaster. George Sullivan grew up in Valdez. His mother was elected mayor about 1934. - Bruce Botelho
Bruce M. Botelho was born in Juneau Alaska, United States and is the current mayor of Alaska’s capital city. This is his second time as the mayor, and he previously served as the attorney general for the state of Alaska. - Elizabeth Peratrovich
Elizabeth W. Peratrovich (née: Wanamaker) (b. July 4, 1911-d. December 1, 1958) was an important Alaska civil rights activist, working on behalf of equality for Alaska native peoples. She was the single driving force behind the passage of the state's Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States. She was born July 4, 1911, and was a member of the Lukaax.ádi clan, in the Raven moiety of the Tlingit nation. - Todd Palin
Todd Palin is the husband of Alaska's Governor, Sarah Palin. On December 4, 2006, he became the first First Gentleman of Alaska. Mr. Palin and the Governor have four children together: Track (17), Bristol (16), Willow (12), and Piper Palin (5). Palin is a snowmobile enthusiast and a four-time winner of the Tesoro Iron Dog, a snowmobile race (Alaskans say "snowmachine") across Alaska that is billed as the world's longest. - Rick Rydell
Rick Rydell (born Rick Green, September 29, 1963 in Seattle, Washington) is an American radio talk show host. Rydell claims an ideology steeped in Liberty, secured by a Revolution, refined by Reagan, and perfected by Rydell. - Dorothy Page
Dorothy G. Page (died November 16, 1989) was best known as "Mother of the Iditarod", the 1,049-mile (about 1,600 km) dog sled race across the U.S. state of Alaska. Page moved from New Mexico to Alaska in 1960. She became the president of the Wasilla-Knik Centennial Committee in 1966, and was in charge of coming up with an event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the purchase of Alaska from Russia. - Kate Earl
Kate Earl, born Kate Joy Smithson, October 8, 1981 "Katie" to Charles and Pomposa Smithson in Chugiak, Alaska is a Filipino American singer-songwriter, now based in Los Angeles. Her debut album, "Fate Is The Hunter", was released on May 10, 2005. She has garnered moderate airplay with her single, "Officer". Kate's music has been likened to that of Björk, Joni Mitchell, and Fiona Apple. Her songs have a similar jazzy-soul feel and progression to them. - Artis The Spoonman
Artis the Spoonman is an American street performer from Seattle, Washington, born in Kodiak, Alaska, on 3 October, 1948 who plays music with a set of spoons. He also can play two flutes simultaneously with his nose, and do a wide variety of amazing feats with bubbles. The Soundgarden song "Spoonman" is about him. He played the spoons in the song, as well as appearing in the music video. Artis has also shared the stage and recording studio with Frank Zappa. - Chad Bentz
Chad Robert Bentz (born on May 5, 1980 in Seward, Alaska) is a Major League Baseball pitcher in the Cincinnati Reds organization. Bentz grew up in Juneau, and he made history on April 7, 2004 by becoming the second pitcher, after Jim Abbott, to play in the Major Leagues after being born without one of his hands. Bentz fields and catches with his glove the same way Abbott did when he played in the 1980s and early 1990s. Like Abbott, Bentz has a deformed right hand. - Peter The Aleut
Cungagnaq, presumably a native of Kodiak Island (Aleutian Islands) is said to have received the Christian name of Peter when he was baptized into the Orthodox faith by the monks of St. Herman's missionaries operating in the north. In 1815 a group of Aleut seal and otter hunters, including Peter, was captured by Spanish sailors, who took them to San Francisco, California for interrogation, which probably occurred at Mission San Francisco de Asis, … - Margaret Friedenauer
Margaret Friedenauer is an American reporter. Friedenauer is currently working for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and is embedded with the 172nd Stryker Brigade combat team from Fort Wainwright, Alaska, which is currently deployed to Iraq. - Nora Marks Dauenhauer
Nora Marks Dauenhauer is an American poet and short-story writer and a scholar of the language and traditions of the Tlingit aboriginal nation in Alaska, of which she is a member. Nora Marks was born May 8, 1927, the first of sixteen children of Emma Marks (1913-2006) of Yakutat, Alaska, and Willie Marks (1902-1981), a Tlingit from near Juneau, Alaska. Nora's Tlingit name at birth was Keixwnéi. Following her mother in the Tlingit matrilineal system, …
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