Ethan Berkowitz
Ethan Avram Berkowitz is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. He was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 2006, for Alaska’s at-large congressional district in 2008, and for governor in 2010. In July 2009 he said he would not run and was instead considering challenging Governor Sarah Palin. On October 13, 2020, he announced that he would resign after he acknowledged he had been in an inappropriate messaging relationship with television anchor Maria Athens.
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Ethan Avram Berkowitz is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. He was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 2006, for Alaska’s at-large congressional district in 2008, and for governor in 2010. Berkowitz was born to a Jewish family in San Francisco, California. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in government and economics from Harvard College in 1983, a MPhil in polar studies from Cambridge University in 1986, and a Juris Doctor from the Hastings College of Law in 1990.
From 1997 to 2007 he was the Alaska State Representative for District 26, serving as the Democratic Party Minority Leader from 1999 to 2007. In 2010 he defeated State Senator Hollis S. French for the Democratic nomination for governor. In July 2009 he said he would not run and was instead considering challenging Governor Sarah Palin. On October 13, 2020, he announced that he would resign after he acknowledged he had been in an inappropriate messaging relationship with television anchor Maria Athens.
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