Mike Hawker
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Mike Hawker is a Republican
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...

 member of the Alaska House of Representatives
Alaska House of Representatives
The Alaska House of Representatives is the lower house in the Alaska Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alaska. The House is composed of 40 members, each of whom represents a district of about 15,673 people . Members serve two-year terms without term limits...

, representing the 32nd District since 2002. He is currently serving as Co-Chair of the Finance Committee and is a member of the Legislative Budget & Audit Committee. He also chairs the Court System, Governor, Legislature, and Revenue Finance Subcommittee and serves on the Public Safety Finance Subcommittee, for the 26th Legislature. Mike Hawker is also a retired Certified Public Accountant
Certified Public Accountant
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 and an Accounting and Management Consultant.

Personal life

Representative Hawker has a wife: Carol Carlson, the daughter of John Carlson, who was mayor
Mayor
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 of the Fairbanks North Star Borough
Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
-Demographics:As of the 2000 census, 82,840 people, 29,777 households, and 20,516 families were residing in the borough. The population density was 11 people per square mile . There were 33,291 housing units at an average density of 4 per square mile...

 from 1968 to 1982. He received a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
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 in Accounting and Humanities, and his public accountant certification from the University of Northern Iowa
University of Northern Iowa
The University of Northern Iowa is a college located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States. UNI offers more than 120 majors across the colleges of Business Administration, Education, Humanities and Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, and Social and Behavioral sciences, and graduate college.UNI has...

in 1979.

See also

Alaska State House Majority Site

Alaska State Legislature Biography

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