Mary Peltola
What this job does: One of Alaska’s two votes in the U.S. Senate. Senators vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and on the president’s picks for federal judges.
- Occupation
- Former U.S. Representative
Background
- Born Aug. 31, 1973 in Anchorage; Yup'ik, from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Alaska House of Representatives 1999-2009. source: en.wikipedia.org
- U.S. Representative for Alaska's at-large seat from Aug. 16, 2022 to Jan. 3, 2025; lost re-election in 2024 to Nick Begich III. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission after 2016; tribal court judge 2020-2021. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Declared for U.S. Senate on Jan. 12, 2026; first place in the Aug. 18, 2026 primary. source: en.wikipedia.org
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- Per the campaign site, as reported by Alaska Independent News: energy, wages, corporate corruption, shipping costs and housing; no taxes for people earning under $92,000; expanded child tax credit; oil refining and permitting streamlining; price-gouging ban. source: marypeltola.com
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