Loren Leman
| Loren Leman | |
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| 8th Lieutenant Governor of Alaska | |
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In office December 2, 2002 – December 4, 2006 |
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| Governor | Frank Murkowski |
| Preceded by | Fran Ulmer |
| Succeeded by | Sean Parnell |
| Member of the Alaska Senate | |
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In office 1993–2002 |
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| Member of the Alaska House of Representatives | |
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In office 1989–1993 |
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| Personal details | |
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Loren Dwight Leman December 2, 1950 Pomona, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Carolyn Rae Bratvold |
| Alma mater |
Oregon State University, Corvallis Stanford University University of Alaska, Anchorage |
Loren Dwight Leman (born December 2, 1950) is an American politician who served as the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. Before that, he served in both houses of the state legislature, and was elected as the Senate Majority Leader by the end of his term. He served in office in electoral politics from 1989 to 2006. When Leman was elected as lieutenant governor in 2002, he was the first person of Alaska Native ancestry to be elected to statewide office in Alaska. He also has Russian ancestry.
Leman was born in Pomona, California, and grew up in Ninilchik, Alaska, in a Russian-speaking family of Alutiiq and Russian ancestry. They were commercial fishermen. He watched his father operate a fish trap during Territorial days, before this fishing method was outlawed by referendum in 1959. He subsequently has worked the family salmon setnet operation on Cook Inlet near Ninilchik. He longlined for halibut in Cook Inlet and harvested herring roe on kelp in Prince William Sound. Leman traces his long family history in Alaska to the marriage in Kodiak in 1798 between a Russian shipbuilder and an Alutiiq woman from Afognak.
He graduated from Ninilchik High School in 1968. He received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Oregon State University in 1972 and master's degree in civil/environmental engineering from Stanford University in 1973.
He and his wife Carolyn have three children; Rachel, Joseph, and Nicole. Their younger daughter, Nicole, died in a hiking accident in New Zealand in December 2015.
Leman joined the Republican Party in Alaska and became politically active. He was elected in 1988 to the Alaska state house, representing west Anchorage and serving until 1993. He was known as a social conservative, pro-development, pro-business, environmentally-conscious, a supporter of Alaska’s military and taxpayer-friendly.
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