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Bio: (father of Mark Begich), a Representative from Alaska; born in Eveleth, Saint Louis County, Minn., April 6, 1932; attended the Eveleth public schools and Eveleth Junior College; St. Cloud State College, St. Cloud, Minn., B.A., 1952; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., M.A., 1954; doctoral work at the Universities of Colorado and North Dakota; high school instructor, counselor and director, student personnel, 1952-1959; principal and superintendent, Fort Richardson Schools, Alaska, 1959-1968; part-time instructor, University of Alaska, Anchorage branch, 1956-1968; builder and manager of apartment houses in Anchorage beginning in 1968; elected to Alaska State senate for two four year terms, 1963-1971, serving as minority whip from 1967; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the Ninety-third Congresses; disappeared while on a campaign flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska, October 16, 1972; served from January 3, 1971, until December 29, 1972, at which time a presumptive death certificate was recorded in the State of Alaska.
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Bio: a Representative from Alaska; born in Chicago, Ill., April 11, 1920; attended Perkinston High School, Perkinston, Miss., 1935-1939; Junior College, Perkinston, Miss., 1939-1941; University of Santa Clara (Calif.) School of Law, 1952-1953; J.D., University of Houston School of Law, Houston, Tex., 1953-1955; M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., 1960; Ph.D., International University of Vienna, Austria, 2002; United States Navy, rank of lieutenant commander, 1941-1946; lawyer, private practice; president, Alaska Gold and Other Products, Inc.; president, Falcon Alaska Oil Co.; chairman of the board, Alaskan Seafoods, Inc.; Territorial representative, Alaska Territorial Legislature, 1953-1955; member of the Alaska state senate, 1961-1963, 1965-1966, and minority whip, 1965-1966; member, Alaska Republican State Central committee, 1960-1966; committeeman, Republican Southcentral District, 1962-1966; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and Ninety-first Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-second Congress in 1970, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination as Governor of Alaska; deputy administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1971-1983; delegate, United Nations Law of the Sea Conference; private advocate; died on January 9, 2011, in Coronado, Calif.
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Bio: a Representative from Alaska; born in Seattle, King County, Wash., May 23, 1903; attended grammar school in Flat, Alaska, and Franklin High School, Seattle, Wash.; LL.B., University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., 1929; gold miner, Flat, Alaska, 1921-1923; lawyer, private practice; United States district attorney, fourth judicial division, district of Alaska, 1933-1944; elected attorney general of Alaska, 1945-1949; chair, Employment Security Commission of Alaska, 1950-1952; mayor, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1952-1954; president, League of Alaskan Cities, 1954; member of Alaska Territorial senate, 1955; second vice president of Alaska Constitutional Convention at College, Alaska, 1955-1956; delegate, Democratic National Conventions in 1960, 1964, and 1968; United States Representative-elect under Alaska-Tennessee Plan, Washington, D.C., provisional basis, pending statehood, in 1957 and 1958; upon the admission of Alaska as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served until December 30, 1966 (January 3, 1959-December 30, 1966); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966; died on August 14, 1976, in Chehalis, Wash.; remains were cremated; ashes interred at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
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Bio: a Representative from Alaska; born in Meridian, Sutter County, Calif., June 9, 1933; A.A., Yuba Junior College, Marysville, Calif., 1952; B.A., California State University Chico, Chico, Calif., 1958; United States Army, 1955-1957; teacher; mayor of Fort Yukon, Alaska, 1960-1968; riverboat captain, 1968-1972; Fort Yukon, Alaska, city council, 1960-1968; member of the Alaska state house of representatives, 1966-1970; member of the Alaska state senate, 1970-1973; delegate, Alaska State Republican conventions, 1964, 1966, 1968, and 1972; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third Congress by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Nick Begich, and reelected to the twenty succeeding Congresses (March 6, 1973-present); chair, Committee on Resources (One Hundred Fourth through One Hundred Sixth Congresses); chair, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (One Hundred Seventh through One Hundred Ninth Congresses).
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