Stephen Alan McAlpine was the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

 from 1982 to 1990.

Stephen McAlpine was born in Yakima, Washington

Yakima, Washington

Yakima is an American city southeast of Mount Rainier National Park and the county seat of Yakima County, Washington, United States, and the eighth largest city by population in the state itself. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 91,196 and a metropolitan population of...

, the fourth child of Robert E. and Myrtle B. (Loomis) McAlpine. He attended school in Yakima, but two years at Maryknoll Seminary in Mt. View, California

Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California

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. He attended the University of Washington

University of Washington

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, graduating with a degree in History and Political Science. He graduated from the University of Puget Sound

University of Puget Sound

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 School of Law in 1976.

McAlpine originally came to Alaska in 1970, settling in 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...

 with a schoolmate, Mano Frey. The two worked construction during the building of the trans Alaska pipeline. In 1977 McAlpine partnered with James D. Ginotti in the Law Firm of Ginotti & McAlpine, PC. During this time he was elected to the Valdez city council and went on to serve two terms as Mayor. In 1982 he was elected Lt. Governor of Alaska, serving with Governor Bill Sheffield. He was re-elected in 1986, serving with Steve Cowper

Steve Cowper

Steve Cowper is an American Democratic politician who was the sixth Governor of Alaska of Alaska from 1986 to 1990. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later served in the Alaska House of Representatives before being elected governor.Cowper served as Governor at...

 as Governor. Upon his election in 1982, McAlpine became the first baby boomer

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elected to statewide office in Alaska. He also became, and remains, the youngest person elected to statewide office in Alaska, by a factor of many years. McAlpine practices law in Anchorage, Alaska.