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2nd Alaska State Legislature

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Sessions

1st session: January 23, 1961–April 7, 1961
2nd session: January 23, 1962–April 12, 1962

Make-up

Affiliation		Members
	Democratic Party Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...	13
	Republican Party Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...	7
Total		20
Government Majority		6

Members

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James Nolan	Dem	Wrangell Wrangell, Alaska Wrangell is a city and borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. At the 2000 census the population was 2,308.Its Tlingit name is Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw . The Tlingit people residing in the Wrangell area, who were there centuries before Europeans, call themselves the Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan after the nearby Stikine... >- \| Frank Peratrovich	Dem	Klawock Klawock, Alaska Klawock is a city in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, in the U.S. state of Alaska, on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island, on Klawock Inlet, across from Klawock Island... >- \| B	W.O. Smith	Dem	Ketchikan Ketchikan, Alaska Ketchikan is a city in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, United States, the southeasternmost sizable city in that state. With an estimated population of 7,368 in 2010 within the city limits, it is the fifth most populous city in the state.... >- \| C	Howard C. Bradshaw	Dem	>- \| D	Elton E. Engstrom	Rep	Juneau Juneau, Alaska The City and Borough of Juneau is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of the then-District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900... >- \| rowspan="2" \| E	Vance Phillips	Rep	Anchorage Anchorage, Alaska Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States... >- \| Howard W. Pollock	Rep	>- \| F	B.J. Logan	Dem	Cordova Cordova, Alaska As of the census of 2000, there were 2,454 people, 958 households, and 597 families residing in the city. The population density was 40.0 per square mile . There are 1,099 housing units at an average density of 17.9 per square mile... >- \| G	Brad Phillips	Rep	>- \| H	Irwin L. Metcalf	Dem	Seward Seward, Alaska Seward is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 3,016.... >- \| I	Alfred A. Owen	Dem	Uganik Bay Kodiak Island Kodiak Island is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. The largest island in the Kodiak Archipelago, Kodiak Island is the second largest island in the United States and the 80th largest island in the world, with an... >- \| rowspan="2" \| J	George B. McNabb, Jr.	Dem	Fairbanks Fairbanks, Alaska Fairbanks is a home rule city in and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska, and second largest in the state behind Anchorage... >- \| Robert J. McNeally	Dem	>- \| K	Jack E. Weise	Rep	Bethel Bethel, Alaska Bethel is a city located near the west coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, west of Anchorage. Accessible only by air and river, Bethel is the main port on the Kuskokwim River and is an administrative and transportation hub for the 56 villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.Bethel is the largest... >- \| L	John B. Coghill Jack Coghill John Bruce "Jack" Coghill was the eighth lieutenant governor of Alaska, serving from 1990 to 1994 under Governor Walter Hickel. Both were members of the Alaskan Independence Party...	Rep	Nenana Nenana, Alaska Nenana is a Home Rule City in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Nenana lies at the juncture of the Nenana River and the Tanana River. The population was 402 at the 2000 census. "Nenana" means 'a good place to camp between two rivers.'-History... >- \| M	Paul Greimann, Sr.	Rep	>- \| rowspan="2" \| N	Lester Bronson	Dem	Nome Nome, Alaska Nome is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. According to the 2010 Census, the city population was 3,598. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901, and was once the... >- \| Pearse Walsh	Dem	>- \| O	Eben Hopson	Dem	Barrow Barrow, Alaska Barrow is the largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is one of the northernmost cities in the world and is the northernmost city in the United States of America, with nearby Point Barrow being the nation's northernmost point. Barrow's population was 4,212 at the... >- \| P	John A. McNees	Dem

Leadership

Senate President: Frank Peratrovich (D-Klawock)
Majority Leader: Robert J. McNeally (D-Fairbanks)
Minority Leader: John B. Coghill (R-Nenana)

Make-up

Affiliation		Members
	Republican Party Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...	20
	Democratic Party Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...	19
	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	1
Total		40
Government Majority		0

Members

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Alfred E. Widmark	Rep	Klawock Klawock, Alaska Klawock is a city in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, in the U.S. state of Alaska, on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island, on Klawock Inlet, across from Klawock Island... >- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| rowspan="2" \| 2	William K. Boardman William K. Boardman William Knight Boardman was a Republican United States legislator who served as Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1967 to 1968.Born in Iowa, Boardman was a resident of Ketchikan, Alaska...	Rep	Ketchikan Ketchikan, Alaska Ketchikan is a city in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, United States, the southeasternmost sizable city in that state. With an estimated population of 7,368 in 2010 within the city limits, it is the fifth most populous city in the state.... >- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| Walter L. Kubley	Rep	>- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| 3	John E. Longworth	Rep	Petersburg Petersburg, Alaska Petersburg is a city in Petersburg Census Area, Alaska, in the United States. According to 2009 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 2,824 full time residents.- History :... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| rowspan="2" \| 4	Frank E. Cashel	Dem	>- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| Andrew Hope	Dem	>- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| rowspan="2" \| 5	Marcus F. Jensen	Dem	Douglas Douglas, Alaska Douglas, Alaska is an area on Douglas Island in southeastern Alaska. Itoriginated in 1881 as a place providing services to miners of the nearby Treadwell gold mine, and was incorporated as a city in 1902. Douglas was once a larger town than neighboring Juneau, but dwindled in the early 1900s as... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| Dora M. Sweeney	Dem	Juneau Juneau, Alaska The City and Borough of Juneau is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of the then-District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| 6	Morgan W. Reed	Dem	Skagway Skagway, Alaska Skagway is a first-class borough in Alaska, on the Alaska Panhandle. It was formerly a city first incorporated in 1900 that was re-incorporated as a borough on June 25, 2007. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city was 862... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| 7	Harold Z. Hansen	Dem	Cordova Cordova, Alaska As of the census of 2000, there were 2,454 people, 958 households, and 597 families residing in the city. The population density was 40.0 per square mile . There are 1,099 housing units at an average density of 17.9 per square mile... >- bgcolor="#F2F2F2" \| 8	Robert I. Ditman	Ind	Valdez Valdez, Alaska Valdez is a city in Valdez-Cordova Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 4,020. The city is one of the most important ports in Alaska. The port of Valdez was named in 1790 after the Spanish naval officer Antonio Valdés y... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| 9	Jalmar M. Kerttula Jalmar M. Kerttula Jalmar M. Kerttula is a retired Alaska politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Kerttula served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1961 to 1972...	Dem	Palmer Palmer, Alaska Palmer is the borough seat of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the state of Alaska, USA. It is part of the Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city is 5,937.... >- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| rowspan="8" \| 10	John S. Hellenthal	Rep	Anchorage Anchorage, Alaska Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States... >- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| Bruce Kendall Bruce Biers Kendall Bruce Biers Kendall is a retired American hotelier and Republican politician from Alaska.A Methodist, Kendall was born in Martinsburg, Nebraska and grew up in Sioux City, Iowa. He later moved to Alaska, living in Cordova, Valdez and Anchorage...	Rep	>- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| Bennie Leonard	Rep	>- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| James C. Parsons	Rep	>- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| Henry S. Pratt	Rep	>- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| William H. Sanders	Rep	>- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| Harold D. Strandberg	Rep	>- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| R.W. Stratton, Jr.	Rep	Spenard Spenard, Alaska Spenard is a neighborhood in the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, United States and was historically a separate city from Anchorage. Spenard maintains the flavor of a separate community today, with "Spenardi Gras" being its primary community celebration that encourages a sense of solidarity and... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| 11	William M. Erwin	Dem	Seward Seward, Alaska Seward is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 3,016.... >- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| 12	Leo Rhode	Rep	Homer Homer, Alaska Homer is a city located in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population was 5,364. One of Homer's nicknames is "the cosmic hamlet by the sea"; another is "the end of the road"... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| rowspan="2" \| 13	Peter M. Deveau	Dem	Kodiak Kodiak, Alaska Kodiak is one of 7 communities and the main city on Kodiak Island, Kodiak Island Borough, in the U.S. state of Alaska. All commercial transportation between the entire island and the outside world goes through this city either via ferryboat or airline... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| Gilbert A. Jarvela	Dem	>- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| 14	Arthur J. Harris	Dem	Nikolski Nikolski, Alaska Nikolski is a census-designated place on Umnak Island in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 39 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Nikolski is located at .According to the U.S... >- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| 15	Jay S. Hammond Jay Hammond Jay Sterner Hammond was an American politician of the Republican Party, who served as the fourth Governor of Alaska from 1974 to 1982.-Early life:...	Rep	Naknek Naknek, Alaska Naknek is a census-designated place located in Bristol Bay Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2000 census, the population of the CDP was 678.... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| 16	Raymond C. Christiansen	Dem	Bethel Bethel, Alaska Bethel is a city located near the west coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, west of Anchorage. Accessible only by air and river, Bethel is the main port on the Kuskokwim River and is an administrative and transportation hub for the 56 villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.Bethel is the largest... >- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| 17	Donald Harris	Rep	McGrath McGrath, Alaska As of the census of 2000, there were 401 people, 145 households, and 99 families residing in the city. The population density was 8.2 people per square mile . There were 213 housing units at an average density of 4.4 per square mile... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| 18	Grant H. Pearson	Dem	Nenana Nenana, Alaska Nenana is a Home Rule City in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Nenana lies at the juncture of the Nenana River and the Tanana River. The population was 402 at the 2000 census. "Nenana" means 'a good place to camp between two rivers.'-History... >- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| rowspan="5" bgcolor="#EEEBF4" \| 19	Edgar I. Baggen	Rep	Fairbanks Fairbanks, Alaska Fairbanks is a home rule city in and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska, and second largest in the state behind Anchorage... >- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| Forbes L. Baker	Rep	>- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| C.M. Binkley	Rep	College College, Alaska College is a census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Fairbanks, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 13,493 in 2007.... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| Frank X. Chapados	Dem	>- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| Warren A. Taylor Warren A. Taylor Warren Arthur Taylor was an American Democratic politician from Alaska active during its territorial period and first years of statehood. He became the first Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives....	Dem	>- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| 20	Kenneth A. Garrison	Rep	Fort Yukon Fort Yukon, Alaska As of the census of 2000, there were 595 people, 225 households, and 137 families residing in the city. The population density was 85.0 people per square mile . There were 317 housing units at an average density of 45.3 per square mile... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| 21	John Nusunginya	Dem	Point Barrow Barrow, Alaska Barrow is the largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is one of the northernmost cities in the world and is the northernmost city in the United States of America, with nearby Point Barrow being the nation's northernmost point. Barrow's population was 4,212 at the... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| 22	Jacob A. Stalker	Dem	Kotzebue Kotzebue, Alaska As of the census of 2000, there were 3,082 people, 889 households, and 656 families residing in the city. The population density was 114.1 people per square mile . There were 1,007 housing units at an average density of 37.3 per square mile... >- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| rowspan="2" bgcolor="#EEEBF4" \| 23	Robert R. Blodgett	Dem	Teller Teller, Alaska Teller is a city in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 268. According to a 2009 estimate, the population had increased by exactly one person.... >- bgcolor="#FFE8E8" \| Arthur D. Johnson	Rep	>- bgcolor="#DDEEFF" \| 24	Father Segundo Llorente Segundo Llorente Segundo Llorente Villa, S.J. was a Spanish Jesuit, philosopher and author who spent 40 years as a missionary among the Central Alaskan Yup'ik people in the most remote parts of Alaska...	Dem

Leadership

Speaker of the House: Warren A. Taylor (D-Fairbanks)
Majority Leader: Peter M. Deveau (D-Kodiak)
Minority Leader: Bruce Kendall (R-Anchorage)

Key Legislative Staff

Secretary of the Senate: Evelyn K. Stevenson
Chief Clerk of the House: Esther Reed
Executive Director of Legislative Council
Alaska Legislative Council
The Alaska Legislative Council is a standing committee of 14 members of the Alaska Legislature, that meets to conduct the business of the Legislature when it is not in session.-Composition and authority:...

: John C. Doyle
Legislative Auditor: Robert Dyer

See also

List of Alaska State Legislatures
1st Alaska State Legislature
1st Alaska State Legislature
The 1st Alaska State Legislature served during 1959 and 1960. All of its members were elected on November 25, 1958, when Alaska was in its last days as a territory.-Terms:...

, the legislature preceding this one
3rd Alaska State Legislature, the legislature following this one

External links

Roster of members for the Alaska Territorial and State Legislatures, 1913-2008

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