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Peltola was elected to the Bethel City Council in 2011, and served until her term ended in 2013. She was a lobbyist in Alaska from 2015 to 2017. [32] After 2016, Peltola served as executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. [33] [4] From 2020 to 2021, she served as a judge on the Orutsararmiut Native Council's tribal ...
Incumbent Mary Peltola, the first Democrat to represent Alaska in the House since 1972, sought a second full term in office. Peltola had been elected in an August 2022 special election to succeed deceased Republican Don Young. She won a full term the following November.
On August 16, 2022, Mary Peltola, a Yup'ik woman, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Alaska, becoming the first person with documented Native Alaskan ancestry to serve in Congress. This returned the number of the Native delegation to five, with a partisan split of three Republicans and two Democrats.
Peltola, who is Yup’ik and made history as the first Alaska Native elected to Congress, beat Begich twice in 2022, during a special election following the death of longtime Rep. Don Young, a ...
Mary Peltola is the first Alaska Native elected to Congress and was sworn in on Tuesday.
Democrat Mary Peltola was sworn in Tuesday night to finish out the remaining months of the term of the late Rep. Don Young, making her the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress and the first ...
Mary Peltola was elected in a 3-way race against former governor Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III in the election, becoming the first Alaska Native and woman to represent Alaska in the House. [3] The election was the first to use Alaska's new ranked-choice voting (RCV) method, approved by voters in 2020.
Mary Peltola: Democratic: September 13, 2022 – present At-large: Bethel: Elected to finish Young's term. Incumbent. Howard Pollock: Republican: January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1971 At-large: Anchorage: Elected in 1966. Retired to run for Governor of Alaska. Ralph Julian Rivers: Democratic: January 3, 1959 – December 30, 1966 At-large ...