Lisa Ann Murkowski is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Alaska. 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 elected majority leader. Murkowski ran for and won a full term in 2004.
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Lisa Ann Murkowski is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Alaska. 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 elected majority leader. She was appointed to the U. S. Senate by her father, who resigned his seat in December 2002 to become governor of Alaska. Murkowski ran for and won a full term in 2004. After losing the 2010 Republican primary to Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, she ran as a write-in candidate and defeated both Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams in the general election. She won 48. 6% of the vote in 2004, 39. 5% in 2010, and 44. 4% in 2016. She resigned her House seat before taking office, due to her appointment by her dad to the seat he had vacated in the US Senate, upon his stepping down to assume the Alaska governorship. She earned a B. A. degree in economics from Georgetown University in 1980, the same year her father was elected to the United States Senate. She served on the Mayor’s Task Force for the Homeless from 1990 to 1991.
In 1998, Murkowski was elected as House Majority Leader for the 2003–04 legislative session. In 1999, she introduced legislation establishing a Joint Armed Services Committee. In 2000, she was reelected in 2000 and, after her district boundaries changed, in 2002. She has never won a majority of the. vote in any of her three U. s. Senate races, only pluralities. Her appointment caused controversy in Alaska. Sarah Palin was particularly upset, because she had interviewed for the seat but had been rejected. The centrist Republican was considered vulnerable due to controversy over her appointment, and wanted to run TV ads for Murkowski, which the Main Street Partnership, which wanted to buy, was left to buy. In the August 24, 2010, Republican Party primary election against Joe Miller,. Murkowski defeated Miller by a narrow margin. Near the end of the campaign, senior U.s. Senator Ted Stevens, a former judge supported by former Governor Sarah Palin, said Murkowski would likely receive fewer federal dollars if a Democrat replaced her.
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