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 miles (770 km) 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^[1]
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
1	Edwin J. "Pete" Cessnun	Republican	Ketchikan
2	Ernest J. Haugen	Republican	Petersburg
3	Frank Getman	Democratic	Sitka
4	Mildred H. Banfield	Republican	Juneau
4	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^[2]	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)^[3]	Democratic	St. Mary's
	Vacant (2-18-68 – 2-26-68)
	Moses Paukan (2-26-68 – 1-26-69)^[4]	Democratic	St. Mary's

House leadership

Speaker of the House – William K. Boardman (R-Ketchikan)
House Majority Leader - Ted Stevens (R-Anchorage)^[2]

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

General

Alaska Legislature Roster of Members 1913-2012 (PDF). Juneau: Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency. 2012. pp. 43–44. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
"Alaska Legislation 1967 Affecting Local Government Units". Alaska Local Government. VI (8). Juneau: Office of the Governor of Alaska, Local Affairs Agency: 159–163. August 1967.

Specific and Notes

^ Roster of Members simply lists Spenard, currently a 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.
^ ^a ^b 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.

[1] Roster of Members simply lists Spenard, currently a 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.

[resign-2] Resigned near the expiration of his term, to accept appointment to the United States Senate following the death of Bob Bartlett.

[3] Died in office.

[4] Appointed to replace Westdahl, his brother-in-law.

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