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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 mi 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.		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
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

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

Senate committee assignments

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

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		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)		Democratic	St. Mary's
Vacant
(2-18-68 – 2-26-68)
Moses Paukan
(2-26-68 – 1-26-69)		Democratic	St. Mary's

House leadership

Speaker of the House – William K. Boardman (R-Ketchikan)
House Majority Leader - Ted Stevens (R-Anchorage)

House committee assignments

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

References

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;Specific and Notes

References

''Roster of Members'' simply lists Spenard, currently a [[List of neighborhoods of Anchorage, Alaska. 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.
Resigned near the expiration of his term, to accept appointment to the [[United States Senate]] following the death of [[Bob Bartlett]].
Died in office.
Appointed to replace Westdahl, his brother-in-law.

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