Primary date is August 28, 2012.

Alaska Candidate Information Race for US Senate

Lisa Murkowski Republican
Mark Begich Democrat

 

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Alaska Congress Congressional Candidates

Alaska candidates for Congress include:
John Cox Republican
Donald Young Republican
Joe Miller Republican
Doug Urquidi Democrat
Frank Vondersaar Democrat
Jim McDermott Libertarian
Ted Gianoutsos Independent

Alaska History - The Background that every Senate Candidate Knows

The first Europeans to see Alaska were those on Vitus Bering's 1741 Russian exploration. More Russians soon arrived, moving across the Aleutian Islands, Kodiak Island and then to the Inside Passage, where they set up a government at Sitka. Along the way, they forced Aleuts into slave labor harvesting sea otters for their pelts. Other explorers included the English and Spanish.

The United States and Russia signed a treaty on March 30, 1867, to transfer Alaska to the United States. The deal was completed the following Oct. 18, when the Americans raised the Stars and Stripes over Sitka.

Gold rushes attracted prospectors and businesses. There were big rushes to Juneau; the Klondike, a part of Canada reached through Skagway; Fairbanks; and Nome, where the gleaming metal is still found on the public beach.

Sitka was the first capital of the Territory of Alaska. The governor's office was moved to Juneau in 1900, and a territorial legislature first took office in 1913. That was also the year Mount McKinley, the continent's highest peak, was climbed for the first time. Anchorage, at first a tent camp built for workers along the new Alaska Railroad, was founded around then and incorporated in 1920. Now it's Alaska's largest city.

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Alaska links bring you these Bible verses:

Mark 1

John the Baptist Prepares the Way

1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

2 As it is written in the Prophets:


      " Behold, I send My messenger before Your face,
      Who will prepare Your way before You."

3 " The voice of one crying in the wilderness:

      ' Prepare the way of the LORD;
      Make His paths straight.'"

4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

5 Then all the land of Judea, and those from Jerusalem, went out to him and were all baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

6 Now John was clothed with camel's hair and with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

7 And he preached, saying, "There comes One after me who is mightier than I, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.

8 I indeed baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."