5th Alaska State Legislature

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The Fifth Alaska State Legislature served from January 23, 1967, to January 26, 1969.

The Alaska Legislature had largely been controlled by the Democratic Party since statehood took effect in 1959, as was the case with most territorial legislatures stretching as far back as the early 1930s. In the 1966 elections, Alaska followed the rest of the nation and voted Republican: incumbent governor William A. Egan and incumbent U.S. Representative Ralph J. Rivers both lost reelection to Republican challengers (Walter J. Hickel and Howard W. Pollock, respectively). Republicans also wound up with control of both houses of the legislature, though many of the Republicans newly elected in 1966 only served in this legislature.

This Senate saw major changes in its composition. In response to the "one man, one vote" decision of the United States Supreme Court in Reynolds v. Sims, the area-based apportionment scheme established for the Senate in the state constitution was abandoned, and the Senate was apportioned strictly on a population basis like the House. Jay Hammond, who served in the House in the first three legislatures before returning home to Naknek to serve as manager of the Bristol Bay Borough, was newly elected as a senator from a district which stretched as far north as Bettles and as far south as the Alaska Peninsula. In the 1966 election, Hammond defeated Democratic incumbent Grant Pearson, who lived in Nenana, 480 miles (770 km) from Naknek. Under population-based apportionment, many future legislative districts in rural Alaska would also cover vast amounts of the state.

## Senate

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### Senate members

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District | Name | Party | Location

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A | Robert H. Ziegler, Sr. | Dem | Ketchikan
B | Howard C. Bradshaw | Dem | Sitka
C | Elton E. Engstrom, Jr. | Rep | Juneau
D | Jan M. Koslosky | Rep | Palmer
E | Nicholas J. Begich | Dem | Anchorage
Carl F. Brady | Rep | Anchorage
Frank W. Harris | Rep | Anchorage
Clyde R. Lewis | Rep | Anchorage
Brad Phillips | Rep | Anchorage
Vance Phillips | Rep | Anchorage
Lowell Thomas, Jr. | Rep | Spenard[1]
F | Walter I. "Bob" Palmer | Rep | Ninilchik
G | Bill M. Poland | Dem | Kodiak
H | Jay S. Hammond | Rep | Naknek
I | John Butrovich, Jr. | Rep | Fairbanks
Paul B. Haggland | Rep | Fairbanks
V. Maurice Smith | Rep | Fairbanks
William I. Waugaman | Rep | Fairbanks
J | Robert R. Blodgett | Dem | Teller
K | Raymond C. Christiansen | Dem | Bethel

### Senate leadership

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* President of the Senate – John Butrovich (R-Fairbanks)

### Senate committee assignments

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* Commerce
* Brady (chair), Harris (vice-chair), Koslosky, Waugaman, Christiansen
* Finance
* V. Phillips (chair), Haggland (vice-chair), Lewis, Brady, Smith, Engstrom, Blodgett
* Health, Welfare and Education
* Smith (chair), Thomas (vice-chair), Koslosky, Begich
* Judiciary
* Harris (chair), Ziegler (vice-chair), Waugaman, Hammond, Begich
* Labor and Management
* Thomas (chair), Palmer (vice-chair), Lewis, Bradshaw, Christiansen
* Local government
* Koslosky (chair), Lewis (vice-chair), Harris, Poland, Bradshaw
* Resources
* Hammond (chair), Waugaman (vice-chair), Palmer, Lewis, Blodgett
* Rules
* B. Phillips (chair), Ziegler (vice-chair), Haggland, Hammond, Smith
* State Affairs
* Engstrom (chair), Thomas (vice-chair), Haggland, Poland

## House

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The House in 1968.

### House members

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District | Name | Party | Location

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1 | William K. Boardman | Republican | Ketchikan
Edwin J. "Pete" Cessnun | Republican | Ketchikan
2 | Ernest J. Haugen | Republican | Petersburg
3 | Frank Getman | Democratic | Sitka
4 | Mildred H. Banfield | Republican | Juneau
Bill Ray | Democratic | Juneau
5 | Frank See | Democratic | Hoonah
6 | R. R. Borer | Republican | Cordova
7 | Jalmar M. Kerttula | Democratic | Palmer
8 | Michael F. Beirne | Republican | Anchorage
Ken Brady | Republican | Anchorage
Tom Fink | Republican | Anchorage
Milo H. Fritz | Republican | Anchorage
Gene Guess | Democratic | Anchorage
Jess Harris | Republican | Anchorage
Mortimer M. Moore | Republican | Anchorage
William J. Moran | Democratic | Anchorage
Charles J. Sassara, Jr. | Democratic | Anchorage
Jack R. Simpson | Republican | Anchorage
Don Smith | Republican | Anchorage
Ted Stevens[2] | Republican | Anchorage
Harold D. Strandberg | Republican | Anchorage
William C. Wiggins | Republican | Anchorage
9 | Irwin L. Metcalf | Democratic | Seward
10 | Clem V. Tillion | Republican | Halibut Cove
11 | Charles A. Powell | Republican | Kodiak
12 | Carl E. Moses | Republican | Unalaska
13 | Joseph E. McGill | Democratic | Dillingham
14 | George H. Hohman, Jr. | Democratic | Bethel
15 | John C. Sackett | Republican | Fairbanks
16 | Tury F. Anderson | Republican | Fairbanks
Mike Bradner | Democratic | Fairbanks
John Holm | Republican | Fairbanks
Terry Miller | Republican | North Pole
Edmund N. Orbeck | Democratic | Fairbanks
Jules Wright | Republican | Fairbanks
Donald E. Young | Republican | Fort Yukon
17 | Willie Hensley | Democratic | Kotzebue
18 | Thomas J. Balone | Democratic | Nome
19 | John L. Westdahl
(1-23-67 – 2-18-68)[3] | Democratic | St. Mary's
Vacant
(2-18-68 – 2-26-68)
Moses Paukan
(2-26-68 – 1-26-69)[4] | Democratic | St. Mary's

### House leadership

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* Speaker of the House – William K. Boardman (R-Ketchikan)
* House Majority Leader \- Ted Stevens (R-Anchorage)[2]

### House committee assignments

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* Commerce
* Young (chair), Powell (vice-chair), Beirne, Cessnun, Balone, Getman, Brady, Fink, Bradner
* Committee on Committees
* Boardman (chair), Stevens (vice-chair), Strandberg, Holm, Kerttula
* Finance
* Strandberg (chair), Haugen (vice-chair), Miller, Sackett, Sassara, Borer, Ray
* Health, Welfare and Education
* Banfield (chair), Fritz (vice-chair for health and welfare), Beirne (vice-chair for education), Wiggins, Metcalf, Moran, Wright, Young, Hohman
* Judiciary
* Fink (chair), Simpson (vice-chair), Tillion, Brady, Metcalf, Hensley, Moses, Fritz, Moran
* Labor and Management
* Wiggins (chair), Harris (vice-chair), Anderson, Simpson, See, McGill, Moore, Smith, Orbeck
* Local Government
* Smith (chair), Anderson (vice-chair), Beirne, Powell, Getman, Hohman, Harris, Simpson, Westdahl
* Resources
* Moses (chair), Anderson (vice-chair for mines and minerals), Moore (vice-chair for fish and game), Tillion, Cessnun, Wright, McGill, Holm, Powell, Hensley, See
* Rules
* Tillion (chair), Cessnun (vice-chair), Holm, Harris, Balone, Stevens, Kerttula
* State Affairs
* Holm (chair), Brady (vice-chair), Fritz, Moore, Guess, Bradner, Banfield, Wright, Orbeck

## See also

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* List of Alaska State Legislatures
* 4th Alaska State Legislature, the legislature preceding this one
* 6th Alaska State Legislature, the legislature following this one
* List of governors of Alaska
* List of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives
* Alaska Legislature
* Alaska Senate
* [1]{AKLeg.gov}

## References

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General

* Alaska Legislature Roster of Members 1913-2012 (PDF). Juneau: Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency. 2012. pp. 43–44\. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 23, 2019. Retrieved March 2, 2011.
* "Alaska Legislation 1967 Affecting Local Government Units". Alaska Local Government. VI (8). Juneau: Office of the Governor of Alaska, Local Affairs Agency: 159–163\. August 1967.

Specific and Notes

1. ^ Roster of Members simply lists Spenard, currently a neighborhood of Anchorage but often regarded at the time as a separate community. Alaska Local Government, on the other hand, lists a residence address which at the time was mostly rural outskirts of Anchorage, on the opposite side of Anchorage International Airport from the southwestern end of Spenard.
2. ^ a b Resigned near the expiration of his term, to accept appointment to the United States Senate following the death of Bob Bartlett.
3. ^ Died in office.
4. ^ Appointed to replace Westdahl, his brother-in-law.

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