5th Alaska State Legislature

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

Senate members

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

Senate leadership

Senate committee assignments

House

House members

District Name Party Location
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 Pauken
(2-26-68 – 1-26-69)[4] 		Democratic St. Mary's

House leadership

House committee assignments

References

General
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. ↑ 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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