Lisa Murkowski
| Lisa Murkowski | |
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United States Senator from Alaska |
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Assumed office December 20, 2002 Serving with Dan Sullivan |
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| Preceded by | Frank Murkowski |
| Chair of the Senate Energy Committee | |
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Assumed office January 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Mary Landrieu |
| Vice Chair of the Senate Republican Conference | |
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In office January 3, 2009 – September 17, 2010 |
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| Leader | Mitch McConnell |
| Preceded by | John Thune |
| Succeeded by | John Barrasso |
| Member of the Alaska House of Representatives from the 14th district |
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In office January 19, 1999 – December 20, 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Terry Martin |
| Succeeded by | Vic Kohring |
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Lisa Ann Murkowski May 22, 1957 Ketchikan, Alaska, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Verne Martell |
| Children | 2 |
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Georgetown University (BA) Willamette University (JD) |
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| Website | Senate website |
Lisa Ann Murkowski /mɜːrˈkaʊskiː/ (born May 22, 1957) is the senior United States Senator from Alaska and a member of the Republican Party. She has served in the Senate since 2002. Murkowski became the state's senior senator on January 3, 2009, when Democrat Mark Begich, who had defeated Alaska's senior senator Ted Stevens in November 2008, took office.
She is the daughter of former U.S. Senator and Governor of Alaska Frank Murkowski. Before her appointment to the Senate, she served in the Alaska House of Representatives and was eventually elected majority leader.
Murkowski was appointed to the U.S. Senate by her father, Frank Murkowski, who resigned his seat in December 2002 to become the Governor of Alaska. She completed her father's unexpired term, which ended in January 2005. She ran for and won a full term in 2004.
She ran for a second term in 2010. She lost the Republican Party nomination to Tea Party candidate Joe Miller. She then ran as a write-in candidate and defeated both Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams in the general election, making her only the second senator to be elected by write-in vote since Strom Thurmond in 1954.
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