Ted Stevens
Senior Senator from Alaska
Incumbent
Assumed office  December 24, 1968 Serving with Lisa Murkowski
Preceded by	Bob Bartlett
President pro tempore of the United States Senate
In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007
Leader	Bill Frist
Preceded by	Robert Byrd (D)
Succeeded by	Robert Byrd (D)
19th Majority Whip of the United States Senate
In office January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1985
Leader	Howard Baker
Preceded by	Alan Cranston (D)
Succeeded by	Alan Simpson (R)
15th Minority Whip of the United States
In office January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1981
Leader	Howard Baker
Preceded by	Robert Griffin (R)
Succeeded by	Alan Cranston (D)
16th Senate Republican Whip
In office January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1985
Leader	Howard Baker
Preceded by	Robert Griffin
Succeeded by	Alan Simpson
3rd President pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office  January 4, 2007
President	Robert Byrd
Preceded by	Robert Byrd
Born	November 18, 1923 (1923-11-18) (age 84) Indianapolis, Indiana
Political party	Republican
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Alma mater	UCLA Harvard
Religion	Episcopalian
Website	Untied States Senator Ted Stevens

Theodore Fulton Stevens (born November 18, 1923) is the senior United States Senator from Alaska. Alma mater is Latin for "nourishing mother" It was used in Ancient Rome as a title for the mother Goddess, and in Medieval The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United The Episcopal Church is the official name of the Province of the Anglican Communion in the United States. Events 326 - The old St Peter's Basilica is consecrated 1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives Alaska ( Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent As the longest serving Republican in the Senate, Stevens served as President pro tempore from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2007. The President pro tempore of the Senate is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate and the highest-ranking senator Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.

Stevens has had a six-decade career of government service, beginning with his service in World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In the 1950s, he held senior positions in the Eisenhower Interior Department. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14 1890 – March 28 1969 was President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general The United States Department of the Interior ( DOI) is a Cabinet department of the United States government that manages and conserves most federally He has served continuously in the Senate since December 1968.

When the 110th Congress convened and Democrats took control of the chamber, he was replaced as President pro tem by Robert Byrd, and thus took Byrd's previous honorary role of "President pro tempore emeritus". Robert Carlyle Byrd (born November 20 1917 is the senior United States Senator from West Virginia and a member of the Democratic Party. The President pro tempore of the Senate is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate and the highest-ranking senator He is one of three persons, alongside Byrd and Strom Thurmond, who served previously as president pro tem and remained in Senate. James Strom Thurmond ( December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and

Stevens is currently under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for possible corruption based on his relationship with an oil service company executive who has pled guilty to bribing Alaskan legislators, including Stevens' son, former State Senator Ben Stevens. The Ben Stevens (born 1959 is an American Politician and former President of the Alaska State Senate. On July 30, 2007, the IRS and the FBI searched Stevens' home in Alaska. Events 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague. 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ^[1]

Contents 1 Early life and career 1.1 Childhood and youth 1.2 Military service 1.3 Higher education and law school 1.4 Early legal career 1.5 Marriage and family 2 Early Alaska career 2.1 U.S. Attorney 2.2 Department of the Interior 2.2.1 Alaska statehood 2.3 Alaska House of Representatives 3 U.S. Senator 3.1 Elections 3.2 Committees 3.3 Political issues 3.3.1 Internet and network neutrality 3.3.2 Logging 3.3.3 Abortion 3.3.4 Global Warming 3.3.5 Criticism of political positions and actions 4 Ethical issues and federal investigations 4.1 Home remodeling and Veco 4.2 Former aide McCabe 4.3 Trident Seafoods 4.4 Bob Penney 5 Other notes 6 See also 7 Footnotes 8 External links

Early life and career

Childhood and youth

Stevens was born November 18, 1923, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the third of four children,^[2][3] in a small cottage built by his paternal grandfather after the marriage of his father, George A. Events 326 - The old St Peter's Basilica is consecrated 1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The State of Indiana ( was the 19th US state admitted into the union Stevens, to Gertrude S. Chancellor. The family later lived in Chicago, where George Stevens was an accountant before the stock market crash of 1929 instigated the Great Depression, ending his job. The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the ’29 Crash, the Crash of 1929, the Great Crash of 1929, the Great Crash of October 1929 ^[3][4] Around this time, when Ted Stevens was six years old, his parents divorced, and Stevens and his three siblings went back to Indianapolis to live with their paternal grandparents, followed shortly thereafter by their father, who developed problems with his eyes and went blind for several years. Stevens' mother moved to California and sent for Stevens' siblings as she could afford to, but Stevens stayed in Indianapolis helping to care for his father and a mentally retarded cousin, Patricia Acker, who also lived with the family. The only adult in the household with a job was Stevens' grandfather. Stevens helped to support the family by working as a newsboy, and would later remember selling a lot of newspapers on March 1, 1932, when newspaper headlines blared the news of the Lindbergh kidnapping. Events 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army enters in Athens, removing the Tyrant Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr, the Toddler son of world famous Aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, occurred ^[3]

In 1934, Stevens' grandfather punctured a lung in a fall down a tall flight of stairs, contracted pneumonia, and died. ^[3] By the time Stevens was fifteen, in 1938, his father had died of cancer. ^[4] Stevens and his cousin Patricia moved to Manhattan Beach, California to live with Patricia's mother, Gladys Swindells. Manhattan Beach is a city located in southwestern Los Angeles County California, USA. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. ^[3] Stevens attended Redondo Union High School, participating in extracurricular activities including working on the school newspaper and becoming a member of a student theater group, a service society affiliated with the YMCA, and, during his senior year, the lettermen's society. Redondo Union High School is a public high school in Redondo Beach California. Stevens also worked at jobs before and after school,^[4] but also had time for surfing with his friend Russell Green, son of the president of Signal Gas and Oil Company, who remained a close friend through Stevens' life. ^[3]

Military service

After graduating from high school in 1942, Stevens enrolled at Oregon State University to study engineering,^[5] attending for a semester. Oregon State University ( OSU) is a Coeducational public Research[[ university]] located in Corvallis, Oregon, United ^[3] With World War II in progress, Stevens attempted to join the Navy Air Corps, but failed the vision exam. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including He corrected his vision through a course of prescribed eye exercises, and in 1943 was accepted for a Army Air Corps Air Cadet program at Montana State College. The United States Army Air Forces ( USAAF) was the military aviation arm of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II. Montana State University - Bozeman (MSU is a Public university located in Bozeman Montana, U ^[3][5] After scoring near the top of an aptitude test for flight training, Stevens was transferred to preflight training in Santa Ana, California and received his wings in early 1944. Founded in 1869 Santa Ana ( is the most populous city in Orange County California and is the County seat and a city of about 353184 people. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. He went on to Bergstrom Field in Texas, where he trained to fly P-38s, but due to an incident during graduation, in which a graduate booed at the colonel who delivered the graduation address, Stevens never flew a fighter in combat. For the civil use of this airfield after 1993 see Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Bergstrom Air Force Base (1942-1993 was a United Instead, Stevens later recalled, "Suddenly we were copilots in a troop carrier squad. "^[3]

Stevens served in the China-Burma-India theater with the Fourteenth Air Force Transport Section, which supported the "Flying Tigers," from 1944 to 1946. China Burma India Theater (CBI (later IBT or India-Burma theater was the name used by the United States Army for its forces operating in conjuction with Allied air The Fourteenth Air Force is a Numbered Air Force (NAF of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout He and other pilots in the transport section flew C-46 and C-47 transport planes, often without escort, mostly in support of Chinese units fighting the Japanese. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout ^[3] Stevens received the Distinguished Flying Cross for flying behind enemy lines, the Air Medal, and the Yuan Hai medal awarded by the Chinese Nationalist government. The Distinguished Flying Cross is a medal awarded to any officer or enlisted member of the United States armed forces who distinguishes himself or herself in The Air Medal is a military decoration of the United States which was established by Executive Order 9158 signed by Franklin D REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES ^[3][6] He was discharged from the Army Air Forces in March 1946. ^[3]

Higher education and law school

After the war, Stevens attended UCLA, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 1947. The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United He applied to law school at Stanford University and the University of Michigan, but on the advice of his friend Russell Green's father to "look East," he applied also to Harvard Law School, and ended up attending there. Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional Graduate schools of Harvard University. Stevens' education was partly financed by the G.I. Bill; he made up the difference by borrowing money from an uncle, selling his blood, and working several jobs, including one as a bartender in Boston. The GI Bill (officially titled Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 PL346 58 Statutes at Large 284 provided for college or vocational education for returning ^[3] During the summer of 1949, Stevens was a research assistant in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California. United States Attorneys (also known as federal prosecutors) represent the United States federal government in United States district court and The United States District Court for the Southern District of California is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties in California ^[7][8]

While at Harvard, Stevens wrote a paper on maritime law which received honorable mention for the Addison Brown prize, a Harvard Law School award made for the best essay by a student on a subject related to private international law or maritime law. ^[7] The essay later became a Harvard Law Review article^[9] whose scholarship Justice Jay Rabinowitz of the Alaska Supreme Court praised 45 years later, telling the Anchorage Daily News in 1994 that the high court had issued a recent opinion citing the article. The Harvard Law Review is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School. Jay Andrew Rabinowitz ( February 25, 1927 – June 16, 2001) was an American Lawyer, best known for serving as an The Alaska Supreme Court is the State supreme court in the State of Alaska 's judicial department ( Alaska Court System) The Anchorage Daily News is a daily Newspaper based in Anchorage Alaska, in the United States. ^[3] Stevens graduated from Harvard Law School in 1950. ^[3]

Early legal career

After graduation, Stevens went to work in the Washington, D.C. law offices of Northcutt Ely. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D ^[7][10] Twenty years previously Ely had been executive assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur during the Hoover administration,^[11] and by 1950 headed a prominent law firm specializing in natural resources issues. The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior. Ray Lyman Wilbur ( April 13, 1875 &ndash June 26, 1949) was a Medical doctor, the 3rd President of Stanford University, and Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10 1874 &ndash October 20 1964 was the thirty-first President of the United States (1929–1933 ^[10] One of Ely's clients, Emil Usibelli, founder of the Usibelli Coal Mine in Healy, Alaska,^[12] was trying to sell coal to the military, and Stevens was assigned to handle his legal affairs. Healy is a Census-designated place (CDP in and the borough seat of Denali Borough in the U Alaska ( Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent ^[10]

Marriage and family

In early 1952 Stevens married Ann Mary Chennington. Ann, a Democrat, was the adopted daughter of University of Denver chancellor Ben Mark Cherrington. The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. The University of Denver ( DU) founded in 1864 is the oldest private University in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States. She had graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and during the Truman administration had worked for the State Department. Reed College is a private, independent Liberal arts college located in southeast Portland Oregon. Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers Oregon ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. ^[10]

In December 1978, Stevens survived the crash of a Lear Jet at Anchorage International Airport. Learjet is a manufacturer of Business jets for civilian and military use Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is the major Airport in the United States State of Alaska located 4 miles (6 km southwest The crash killed five people, including his first wife, Ann. ^[13] In 2000, the Alaska Legislature voted to rename the airport the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.

Stevens' son, Ben Stevens, was appointed to the Alaska Senate in 2001 by Democratic Governor Tony Knowles, and was the Senate President until the fall of 2006. Ben Stevens (born 1959 is an American Politician and former President of the Alaska State Senate. The Alaska Senate is the Upper house in the Alaska Legislature, the state legislature of the U Anthony Carroll Knowles (born January 1 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American Democratic politician and businessman who

Aside from Ben, Stevens and his first wife Ann had two daughters, Susan and Beth, and two sons, Walter and Ted. He and his second wife Catherine have a daughter, Lily.

Stevens' current home in Alaska is in Girdwood. Girdwood is an unincorporated year-round Ski resort community within the Municipality of Anchorage in the U

Early Alaska career

In 1952, while still working for Norcutt Ely, Stevens volunteered for the presidential campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower, writing position papers for the campaign on western water law and lands. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14 1890 – March 28 1969 was President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general By the time Eisenhower won the election that November, Stevens had acquired contacts who told him, "We want you to come over to Interior. " Stevens left his job with Ely, but a job in the Eisenhower administration didn't come through^[10] as a result of a temporary hiring freeze instituted by Eisenhower in an effort to reduce spending. ^[8]

Instead, Stevens was offered a job with the Fairbanks, Alaska law firm of Emil Usibelli's Alaska attorney, Charles Clasby, whose firm, Collins and Clasby, had just lost one of its attorneys. Fairbanks (ˈfɛrbæŋks is a Home Rule City in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. Alaska ( Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent ^[10][8] Stevens and his wife had met and liked both Usibelli and Clasby, and decided to make the move. ^[10] They loaded up their 1947 Buick^[14] and, traveling on a $600 loan from Clasby, they drove across country from Washington, D. C. and up the Alaska Highway in the dead of winter, arriving in Fairbanks in February 1953. The Alaska Highway (also known as the Alaskan Highway, Alaska-Canadian Highway, or ALCAN Highway) was constructed during World War II and connects Stevens later recalled kidding Gov. Walter Hickel about the loan. Walter Joseph "Wally" Hickel (born August 18, 1919) is an American Republican Politician who served as the 2nd and 8th "He likes to say that he came to Alaska with 37 cents in his pocket," he said of Hickel. "I came $600 in debt. "^[10] Ann Stevens recalled in 1968 that they made the move to Alaska "on a six-month trial basis. "^[14]

In Fairbanks, Stevens cultivated the city's Republican establishment. He befriended conservative newspaper publisher C. W. Snedden, who had purchased the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in 1950. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is a Newspaper that serves the city of Fairbanks Alaska and Fairbanks North Star Borough. Snedden's wife Helen later recalled that her husband and Stevens were "like father and son. " "The only problem Ted had was that he had a temper," she told the a reporter in 1994, crediting her husband with helping to steady Stevens "like you would do with your children" and with teaching Stevens the art of diplomacy. ^[10]

U. S. Attorney

Stevens had been with Charles Clasby's law firm for six months when Bob McNealy, a Democrat appointed as U.S. Attorney for Fairbanks during the Truman administration,^[10] informed U. United States Attorneys (also known as federal prosecutors) represent the United States federal government in United States district court and S. District Judge Harry Pratt that he would be resigning effective August 15, 1953,^[15] having already delayed his resignation by several months at the request of Justice Department officials newly appointed by Eisenhower, who asked McNealy to delay his resignation until Eisenhower could appoint a replacement. Events 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For animal rights group see Justice Department (JD The United States Department of Justice ( DOJ) is a Cabinet department ^[14] Despite Stevens' short tenure as an Alaska resident and his relative lack of trial or criminal law experience, Pratt asked Stevens to serve in the position until Eisenhower acted. The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of various bodies of rules in different Jurisdictions whose common characteristic is the potential ^[15] Stevens agreed. "I said, 'Sure, I'd like to do that,' " Stevens recalled years later. "Clasby said, 'It's not going to pay you as much money, but, if you want to do it, that's your business. ' He was very pissed that I decided to go. "^[10] Most members of the Fairbanks Bar Association were outraged at the appointment of a newcomer, and members in attendance at the association's meeting that December voted to support Carl Messenger for the permanent appointment, an endorsement seconded by the Alaska Republican Part Committee for the Fairbanks-area judicial division. ^[15] However, Stevens was favored by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, by Senator William F. Knowland of California, and by the Republican National Committee,^[15] (Alaska itself had no Senators at this time, as it was still a territory). Herbert Brownell Jr ( February 20, 1904 — May 1, 1996) was the Attorney General William Fife Knowland ( June 26 1908 &ndash February 23 1974) was a United States Politician, Newspaperman and The Republican National Committee (RNC provides national leadership for the Republican Party of the United States. Organized incorporated territories are those Territories of the United States that are both incorporated (part of the United States proper and organized Eisenhower sent Stevens' nomination to the U.S. Senate,^[16] which confirmed him on March 30, 1954. The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) ^[10]

Stevens soon gained a reputation as an active prosecutor who vigorously prosecuted violations of federal and territorial liquor, drug, and prostitution laws,^[10] characterized by Fairbanks area homesteader Niilo Koponen (who later served in the Alaska State House of Representatives from 1982-1991) as "this rough tough shorty of a district attorney who was going to crush crime. "^[16] Stevens sometimes accompanied U.S. Marshals on raids. As recounted years later by Justice Jay Rabinowitz, "U. Jay Andrew Rabinowitz ( February 25, 1927 – June 16, 2001) was an American Lawyer, best known for serving as an S. marshals went in with Tommy guns and Ted led the charge, smoking a stogie and with six guns on his hips. "^[10] However, Stevens himself has said the colorful stories spread about him as a pistol-packing D. A. were greatly exaggerated, and recalled only one incident when he carried a gun: on a vice raid to the town of Big Delta about 75 miles (121 km) southwest of Fairbanks, he carried a holstered gun on a marshal's suggestion. Big Delta is a Census-designated place (CDP in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States. ^[10]

Stevens also became known for his explosive temper, which was focused particularly on a criminal defense lawyer named Warren A. Taylor^[10] who would later go on to become the Alaska Legislature's first Speaker of the House in the First Alaska State Legislature. Warren Arthur Taylor ( April 2 1891 August 1980 was an American Democrat Politician from Alaska active during its territorial The Alaska Legislature is the state legislature of the US state of Alaska. The 1st Alaska State Legislature was elected November 25, 1958, upon the passage of the Alaska Statehood Act, and convened immediately after ^[17] "Ted would get red in the face, blow up and stalk out of the courtroom," a former court clerk later recalled of Stevens' relationship with Taylor. ^[10]

In 1956, in a trial which received national headlines, Stevens prosecuted Jack Marler, a former Internal Revenue Service agent accused of failing to file tax returns. The Marler's first trial, which was handled by a different prosecutor, had ended in a deadlocked jury and a mistrial. For the second trial, Stevens was up against Edgar Paul Boyko, a flamboyant Anchorage attorney who built his defense of Marler on the theory of no taxation without representation, citing the Territory of Alaska's lack of representation in the U.S. Congress. " No taxation without representation " began as a Slogan in the period 1763–1776 that summarized a primary grievance of the British Colonists The Alaska Territory was an incorporated territory of the United States from 1912 to 1959 The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses As recalled by Boyko, his closing argument to the jury was a rabble-rousing appeal for the jury to "strike a blow for Alaskan freedom," claiming that "this case was the jury's chance to move Alaska toward statehood. " Boyko remembered that "Ted had done a hell of a job in the case," but Boyko's tactics paid off, and Marler was acquitted on April 3, 1956. Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Following the acquittal, Stevens issued a statement saying, "I don't believe the jury's verdict is an expression of resistance to taxes or law enforcement or the start of a Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was an act of Direct action protest by the American colonists against the British Government in which they destroyed many I do believe, however, that the decision will be a blow to the hopes for Alaska statehood. "^[10]

Department of the Interior

Alaska statehood

In March 1956, Stevens' friend Elmer Bennett, legislative counsel in the Department of the Interior, was promoted by Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay to the Secretary's office. The United States Department of the Interior ( DOI) is a Cabinet department of the United States government that manages and conserves most federally The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior. (James Douglas McKay ( June 24, 1893 &ndash July 22, 1959) was a Republican from Oregon who entered politics after Bennett successfully lobbied McKay to replace him in his old job with Stevens, and Stevens returned to Washington, D.C. to take up the position. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D ^[18] By the time he arrived in June 1956, McKay had resigned in order to run for the U. S. Senate from his home state of Oregon^[18] and Fred Andrew Seaton had been appointed to replace him. Oregon ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Frederick Andrew Seaton ( December 11, 1909 – January 16, 1974) was United States Secretary of the Interior during Dwight Eisenhower ^[18][19] Seaton, a newspaper publisher from Nebraska,^[18] was a close friend of Fairbanks Daily News-Miner publisher C. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is a Newspaper that serves the city of Fairbanks Alaska and Fairbanks North Star Borough. W. Snedden, and in common with Snedden was an advocate of Alaska statehood,^[19] unlike McKay, who had been lukewarm in his support. ^[18] Seaton asked Snedden if he knew any Alaskan who could come to Washington, D. C. to work for Alaska statehood; Snedden replied that the man he needed — Stevens — was already there working in the Department of the Interior. The United States Department of the Interior ( DOI) is a Cabinet department of the United States government that manages and conserves most federally ^[19] The fight for Alaska statehood became Stevens' principal work at Interior. "He did all the work on statehood," Roger Ernst, Seaton's assistant secretary for public land management, later said of Stevens. "He wrote 90 percent of all the speeches. Statehood was his main project. "^[19] A sign on Stevens' door proclaimed his office "Alaskan Headquarters" and Stevens became known at the Department of the Interior as "Mr. Alaska. "^[18]

Efforts to make Alaska a state had been going on since 1943, and had nearly come to fruition during the Truman administration in 1950 when a statehood bill passed in the U. S. House of Representatives, only to die in the Senate. ^[19] The national Republican Party opposed statehood for Alaska, in part out of fear that Alaska would elect Democrats to Congress. ^[19] At the time Stevens arrived in the Washington, D. C. to take up his new job, a constitutional convention to write an Alaska constitution had just been concluded on the campus of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. The University of Alaska is a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant university founded in 1917 in Fairbanks, Alaska. ^[20] The 55 delegates also elected three unofficial representatives, all Democrats, as unofficial delegates to Congress: Ernest Gruening and William Egan as U. Ernest Henry Gruening ( February 6, 1887 June 26, 1974) was an American Journalist and Democrat who was William Allen Egan ( October 8, 1914 May 6, 1984) was an American Democratic Politician. S. "senators" and Ralph Rivers as U. Ralph Julian Rivers ( May 23 1903 - August 14 1976) was a Democratic U S. "representative. "^[19]

President Eisenhower, a Republican, regarded Alaska as too large and sparsely populated to be economically self-sufficient as a state, and furthermore saw statehood as an obstacle to effective defense of Alaska should the Soviet Union seek to invade it. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 ^[19] Eisenhower was especially worried about the sparsely populated areas of northern and western Alaska. In March 1954, he had drawn a line on a map indicating his opinion of the portions of Alaska which he felt ought to remain in federal hands even if Alaska were granted statehood. ^[19]

Seaton and Stevens worked with Gen. Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had served in Alaska, and Jack L. Nathan Farragut Twining (TWI-ning ( October 11, 1897 - March 29, 1982) was a United States Air Force General, born The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( CJCS) is by law the highest ranking military officer overall in the United States Armed Stempler, a top Defense Department attorney, to create a compromise that would address Eisenhower's concerns. The United States Department of Defense ( DOD or DoD) is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government Much of their work was conducted in a hospital room at Walter Reed Army Hospital, where Seaton was being treated for back problems. The Walter Reed National Army Medical Center (WRAMC is the United States Army's medical center on the east coast of the United States. ^[19] Their work concentrated on refining the line on the map that Eisenhower had drawn in 1954, which became known as the PYK Line after three rivers — the Porcupine, Yukon, and Kuskokwim — whose courses defined much of the line. The Porcupine River is a River in Alaska and in the Yukon. Having its source in the Ogilvie Mountains north of Dawson City Yukon, The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. The Kuskokwim River is the 9th largest river in the United States of America ranked by average discharge volume at its mouth 17th ^[19] The PYK Line was the basis for Section 10 of the Alaska Statehood Act, which Stevens wrote. The Alaska Statehood Act was signed by President Dwight D Eisenhower on July 7, 1958, allowing Alaska to become the 49th U ^[19] Under Section 10, the land north and west of the PYK Line — which included the entirety of Alaska's North Slope, the Seward Peninsula, most of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the western portions of the Alaska Peninsula, and the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands — would be part of the new state, but the President would be granted emergency powers to establish special national defense withdrawals in those areas if deemed necessary. The Alaska North Slope is the region of the US state of Alaska located on the northern slope of the Brooks Range along the coast of two marginal seas The Seward Peninsula is a large peninsula on the western coast of the U The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is one of the biggest River deltas in the world roughly the size of Oregon. The Alaska Peninsula is a Peninsula extending about 800 km (500 miles to the southwest from the mainland of Alaska and ending in the Aleutian Islands. The Aleutian Islands (possibly from Chukchi aliat, " Island " are a chain of more than 300 small volcanic islands forming a Volcanic The Pribilof Islands (often called the Fur Seal Islands, Russian: Kotovi) are a group of four Volcanic islands part of the US state ^[21] "It's still in the law but it's never been exercised," Stevens later recollected. "Now that the problem with Russia is gone, it's surplusage. But it is a special law that only applies to Alaska. "^[19]

Stevens also took part — illegally — in lobbying for the statehood bill,^[19] working closely with the Alaska Statehood Committee from his office at Interior. ^[19] Stevens hired Margaret Atwood, daughter of Anchorage Times publisher Robert Atwood,^[19] who was chairman of the Alaska Statehood Committee,^[22] to work with him in the Interior Department. The Anchorage Times was a daily Newspaper published in Anchorage Alaska that became known for the pro-business political stance of longtime publisher and "We were violating the law," Stevens told a researcher in an October 1977 oral history interview for the Eisenhower Library. The Eisenhower Presidential Center, officially known as the Dwight D "[W]e were lobbying from the executive branch, and there's been a statute against that for a long time. . . . We more or less, I would say, masterminded the House and Senate attack from the executive branch. "^[19] Stevens and the younger Atwood created file cards on members of Congress based on "whether they were Rotarians or Kiwanians or Catholics or Baptists and veterans or loggers, the whole thing," Stevens said in the 1977 interview. "And we'd assigned these Alaskans to go talk to individual members of the Senate and split them down on the basis of people that had something in common with them. "^[19] The lobbying campaign extended to presidential press conferences. "We set Ike up quite often at press conferences by planting questions about Alaska statehood," Stevens said in the 1977 interview. "We never let a press conference go by without getting someone to try to ask him about statehood. "^[19] Newspapers were also a targeted, according to Stevens. "We planted editorials in weeklies and dailies and newspapers in the district of people we thought were opposed to us or states where they were opposed to us so that suddenly they were thinking twice about opposing us. "^[19]

The Alaska Statehood Act became law with Eisenhower's signature on July 7, 1958,^[21] and Alaska formally was admitted to statehood on January 3, 1959, when Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Proclamation. Events 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. ^[23]

Alaska House of Representatives

After returning to Alaska, Stevens practiced law in Anchorage. He was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1964, and became House majority leader in his second term. The Alaska House of Representatives is the Lower house in the Alaska Legislature, the state legislature of the U

U. S. Senator

Elections

In 1968, Stevens ran for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, but lost in the primary to Anchorage Mayor Elmer E. Rasmuson. The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives Elmer E Rasmuson (1909-2000 was an Alaskan banker and Philanthropist. Rasmuson lost the general election to Democrat Mike Gravel. Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (grəˈvɛl (born May 13 1930 is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from In December 1968, after the death of Democratic Senator Bob Bartlett, Governor Walter Joseph Hickel appointed Stevens to the U. Edward Lewis "Bob" Bartlett ( April 20, 1904 &ndash December 11, 1968) was an American politician and was a member The Governor of Alaska is the head of the Executive branch of Alaska 's government and the Commander-in-chief of the state's military forces Walter Joseph "Wally" Hickel (born August 18, 1919) is an American Republican Politician who served as the 2nd and 8th S. Senate. ^[24]

In a special election in 1970, Stevens was elected to finish the term of Bartlett with 60% of the vote. The 1970 United States Senate election was an election for the United States Senate which was a midterm election in the term of President Richard Nixon Stevens has been reelected six times since, in the 1972, 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996 and 2002 elections. The 1972 United States Senate election was an election for the United States Senate coinciding with the landslide re-election of Richard Nixon. The United States Senate election of 1978 in the middle of Democratic President Jimmy Carter 's term The US Senate election 1984 was an election for the United States Senate that coincided with Ronald Reagan 's landslide re-election as president The 1990 United States Senate election was an election on Tuesday 1990-11-06 for the United States Senate in which the Democratic Party increased its The US Senate election 1996 was an election for United States Senate which coincided with the re-election of Bill Clinton as president The 2002 United States Senate election featured a series of fiercely-contested elections that resulted in a victory for the Republican Party, which gained two seats and His current term will expire in January 2009. Since his first election to a full term in 1972, Stevens has never received less than 66% of the vote. ^[25]

Stevens has announced he will run again for an Alaska seat in the US Senate in 2008. The Alaska Senate Election of 2008 will be held on November 4, 2008. ^[26]

Stevens' campaign political action committee is called the "Northern Lights PAC. In the US, a Political Action Committee, or PAC, is the name commonly given to a private group regardless of size organized to elect political candidates "

Committees

Stevens served as the Assistant Republican Whip from 1977 to 1985. Whip is a role in party-based politics whose primary purpose is to ensure control of the formal decision-making process in a parliamentary legislature In 1994, Stevens was appointed Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee. The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration (also called the Senate Rules Committee) is responsible for the rules of the United States Senate, with administration Stevens became the Senate's president pro tempore when Republicans regained control of the chamber as a result of the 2002 mid-term elections, during which the previous most senior republican senator and former president pro tempore Strom Thurmond retired. James Strom Thurmond ( December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and

Stevens chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee from 1997 to 2005, except for the 18 months when Democrats controlled the chamber. The US Senate Committee on Appropriations is a Standing committee of the United States Senate. The chairmanship gave Stevens considerable influence among fellow Senators, who relied on him for home-state project funds. Due to Republican Party rules that limited committee chairmanships to six years, Stevens gave up the Appropriations gavel at the start of the 109th Congress, in January 2005. He chaired the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation during the 109th Congress. The Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation is a Standing committee of the United States Senate in charge of all senate matters related to the following He is currently the ranking member on the committee.

Stevens also has been Chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, the Senate Ethics Committee, the Arms Control Observer Group, and the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress. The United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has jurisdiction over matters related to the Department of Homeland Security and other homeland The US Senate Select Committee on Ethics is a select committee of the United States Senate charged with dealing with matters related to senatorial ethics The Library of Congress is the De facto National library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress

Political issues

Internet and network neutrality

Main article: Series of tubes

On June 28, 2006, the Senate commerce committee was in the final day of three days of hearings,^[27] during which the Committee members considered over 200 amendments to an omnibus telecommunications bill. " Series of tubes " is an analogy used by United States Senator Ted Stevens ( R - Alaska) to describe the Internet Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Senator Stevens authored the bill, S. 2686^[28], the Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006.

Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) cosponsored and spoke on behalf of an amendment that would have inserted strong network neutrality mandates into the bill. Olympia Jean Bouchles Snowe McKernan (born February 21, 1947) is the senior United States Senator from Maine. Byron Leslie Dorgan (born May 14 1942) is the junior United States Senator from North Dakota. See also Network neutrality in the United States See also Network neutrality in Canada Definitions of network neutrality Advocates offer three In between speeches by Snowe and Dorgan, Stevens gave an 11 minute speech in which he made several technical and terminological errors while attempting to explain his opposition to the amendment. For example, he referred to the internet as "not a big truck," but a "series of tubes" that could be clogged with information. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks This article is about the semi-truck For the North American use of the word see Pickup truck. " Series of tubes " is an analogy used by United States Senator Ted Stevens ( R - Alaska) to describe the Internet He also complained that "an Internet [sic] was sent by my staff" and that commercial traffic delayed it by five days; it is believed he was referring to an e-mail which was sent by his staff. Electronic mail, often abbreviated to e-mail, email, or originally eMail, is a Store-and-forward method of writing sending receiving

Of 22 Senators, 11 voted for the amendment and 11 against. Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (grəˈvɛl (born May 13 1930 is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from Because it failed to garner majority support, the amendment failed. (The audio from the day's hearing is available at the Committee web site^[27] as a streaming media file in RealMedia format. Streaming multimedia is Multimedia that is constantly received by and normally presented to an end-user while it is being delivered by a streaming provider (the RealMedia is a Multimedia container format created by RealNetworks. Stevens' speech begins at 1:13:11 and ends at 1:24:19. )

Soon after, Stevens' interpretation of how the Internet worked became a topic on the blogosphere, with many writers and commentators derisively citing Stevens' misunderstanding of Internet technology, arguing that the speech showed that Stevens had apparently formed a strong opinion on a topic which he understood poorly. Blogosphere is a collective term encompassing all Blogs and their interconnections ^[29] This Internet phenomenon sparked mainstream media attention, and was prominently featured on several episodes of Comedy Central's The Daily Show. The Daily Show (known in its current incarnation as The Daily Show "Series of tubes" has now become an Internet meme. " Series of tubes " is an analogy used by United States Senator Ted Stevens ( R - Alaska) to describe the Internet

Logging

Stevens has been a long time logging proponent. Recently, he has strongly supported a plan that would allow 2,400,000 acres (9,700 km²) of roadless old growth forest, a refuge for endangered wildlife, to be clearcut. He believes that this would revive Alaska's logging industry and bring jobs to unemployed loggers. However, the proposal would mean that thousands of miles of roads would be constructed at the expense of the Forest Service, judged to cost taxpayers 200,000 dollars per job created.

Abortion

Stevens considers himself "pro-choice". According to Ontheissues. org^[30] and NARAL^[31], Ted Stevens has a mildly pro-life voting record, despite some notable pro-choice votes^[32]. Overview See also Ethical aspects of abortion Pro-life individuals generally believe that human life should be valued either from conception or Implantation Overview See also Ethical aspects of abortion Pro-choice advocates emphasize their beliefs that having a child is a personal choice that affects a woman's body and

However, as a former member of the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership, Stevens presumably supported human embryonic stem cell research. The Republican Main Street Partnership ( RMSP) is a group of Moderate members of the United States Republican Party. Stem cells are cells found in most if not all multi-cellular Organisms. ^[33]

Global Warming

Stevens, once an avowed critic of anthropogenic climate change, began actively supporting legislation to combat climate change in early 2007. Climate change is any long-term significant change in the “average weather” that a given region experiences "Global climate change is a very serious problem for us, becoming more so every day," he said at a Senate hearing, adding that he was "concerned about the human impacts on our climate. "^[34]

However, in September 2007, Stevens said:

We're at the end of a long, long term of warming. 700 to 900 years of increased temperature, a very slow increase. We think we're close to the end of that. If we're close to the end of that, that means that we'll starting getting cooler gradually, not very rapidly, but cooler once again and stability might come to this region for a period of another 900 years. ^[35]

Criticism of political positions and actions

Ted Stevens has taken criticism for a wide variety of positions and actions taken in the Senate. This includes placing a secret hold on a bill that would allow easier accountability and research of all federal funding measures, describing the Internet as a "series of tubes" when taking a strong alliance with the telecommunications industry against network neutrality^[36], and supporting perceived pork barrel projects such as the Gravina Island Bridge and the Knik Arm Bridge (collectively known as the "Bridges to Nowhere" by their opponents). " Series of tubes " is an analogy used by United States Senator Ted Stevens ( R - Alaska) to describe the Internet See also Network neutrality in the United States See also Network neutrality in Canada Definitions of network neutrality Advocates offer three In United States Politics, the term " pork barrel " refers to the appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily The Knik Arm Bridge is one name for a controversial proposed bridge to cross the Knik Arm portion of Cook Inlet, north of Anchorage, Alaska He threatened to resign from the Senate if Congress targeted only Alaska's annual transportation funds to help repair Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina damage if not required from every other State proportionally. The State of Louisiana ( or, État de Louisiane, pronounced) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest in the history of the United States The funding in consideration would have been redirected from funds restricted by Congress for Alaskan bridges. Critics falsely portrayed the funds as an additional federal earmark for the Alaskan bridges. Citizens Against Government Waste is a frequent critic of Stevens' affinity for pork and keeps a list of his projects. Citizens Against Government Waste ( CAGW) is 501(c(3 Non-profit organization in the United States. ^[37]

Additionally, he received criticism for introducing a bill^[38] in January 2007 that would heavily restrict access to social networking sites from public schools and libraries. Sites falling under the language of this bill could include MySpace, Facebook, Digg, Wikipedia and Reddit. MySpace is a popular social networking Website offering an interactive user-submitted network of friends personal profiles blogs groups photos music and Facebook is a social networking Website launched on February 4 2004 Digg is a Website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories and voting and commenting on submitted ***************************************************************************************** * * Reddit (also reddit) is a Social news website on which users can post links to content on the web ^[39][40][41]

Ethical issues and federal investigations

In December 2003, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Stevens had taken advantage of lax Senate rules to use his political influence to earn a large amount of his personal wealth. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed ^[42] According to the article, while Stevens was already a millionaire "thanks to investments with businessmen who received government contracts or other benefits with his help," the law maker who is in charge of $800 billion a year, writes "preferences he wrote into law" that he benefits from. ^[42]

Home remodeling and Veco

On May 29, 2007, the Anchorage Daily News reported that the FBI and a federal grand jury were investigating an "extensive" remodeling project at Stevens' home in Girdwood. The remodeling work, which more than doubled the size of the modest home ,public records show that the home is now 2,471 square feet (230 m²) and valued at about $441,000-which means that it was less than 1,200 square feet (110 m²) before the remodel, occurred in the summer and fall of 2000, was organized by VECO Corporation, an oil-field service company that has long been a strong lobbying presence in Juneau. VECO Corporation was an Alaska -based oil pipeline service and construction company until its purchase in September 2007 by CH2M HILL. Earlier in May, two top Veco executives pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy, bribery and tax charges. ^[43] In June, the Anchorage Daily News reported that a federal grand jury in Washington, D. C. , heard evidence in May about the expansion of Stevens' Girdwood home and other matters connecting Stevens to Veco. ^[44] In mid-June, FBI agents questioned several aides who work for Stevens as part of the investigation. ^[45] In July, Washingtonian magazine reported that Stevens had hired "Washington’s most powerful and expensive lawyer", Brendan Sullivan Jr. Washingtonian is a monthly magazine distributed in the Washington DC area since 1965 Brendan V Sullivan Jr (born March 11, 1942, Providence Rhode Island) is a senior partner of the law firm Williams & Connolly. , in response to the investigation. ^[46] Stevens' Alaska home was raided by the FBI and IRS on July 30, 2007. Events 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague. 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ^[47]

Former aide McCabe

The Justice Department is also examining whether federal funds that Stevens steered to the Alaska SeaLife Center may have enriched a former aide. The Alaska SeaLife Center is an Aquarium located on the shores of Resurrection Bay in Seward in the U ^[48] Currently the United States Department of Commerce and the Interior Department's inspector general are investigating "how millions of dollars that Stevens, R-Alaska, obtained for the nonprofit Alaska SeaLife Center were spent. The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting Economic growth The United States Department of the Interior ( DOI) is a Cabinet department of the United States government that manages and conserves most federally The Alaska SeaLife Center is an Aquarium located on the shores of Resurrection Bay in Seward in the U "^[48] According to CNN, "Among the questions is how about $700,000 of nearly $4 million directed to the National Park Service wound up being paid to companies associated with Trevor McCabe, a former legislative director for Stevens. "^[48]

Trident Seafoods

In 2007 Stevens added $3. 5 million into a Senate spending bill to help finance an airport to serve a remote Alaskan island. ^[49] The airstrip would connect the roughly 100 permanent residents of Akutan, but the biggest beneficiary is the Seattle-based Trident Seafoods Corp. that operates "one of the world’s largest seafood processing plants on the volcanic island in the Aleutians. Trident Seafoods is a Seattle, Washington, based company and is one of the largest Seafood companies in the United States. The Aleutian Islands (possibly from Chukchi aliat, " Island " are a chain of more than 300 small volcanic islands forming a Volcanic "^[49] In December 2006 a federal grand jury investigating political corruption in Alaska ordered Trident and other seafood companies to produce documents about ties to the senator’s son, former Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board Chairman Ben Stevens. ^[49] Trident’s Bundrant is a longtime supporter of Sen. Stevens, and Bundrant with his family contributed $17,300 since 1995 to Ted Stevens’ political campaigns and $10,800 to his leadership PAC while Bundrant also gave $55,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. ^[49]

Bob Penney

In September, The Hill reported that Stevens had "steered millions of federal dollars to a sportfishing industry group founded by Bob Penney, a longtime friend". In 1998, Stevens invested $15,000 in Utah land deal managed by Stevens; in 2004, Stevens sold his share of the property for $150,000. ^[50]

Other notes

The Ted Stevens Foundation is a charity established to "assist in educating and informing the public about Senator Ted Stevens". The chairman is Tim McKeever, a lobbyist who was treasurer of Stevens' 2004 campaign. In May 2006, McKeever said that the charity was "nonpartisan and nonpolitical," and that Stevens does not raise money for the foundation, although he has attended some fund-raisers. ^[51]

When he is discussing issues that are especially important to him (such as opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling), Stevens wears a necktie with The Incredible Hulk on it to show his seriousness. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( ANWR) is a National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska. This article is about the comic book character and series For all other media appearances see Hulk in other media. ^[52] Marvel Comics has sent him free Hulk paraphernalia and thrown a Hulk party for him. Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc ^[53]

On December 21, 2005, Senator Stevens said that the vote to block drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge "has been the saddest day of my life," ^[54]. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( ANWR) is a National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska.

In May 2006, the Senate Majority Project, a partisan political organization, nominated Stevens as "Drama Queen of the US Senate" for his "entertaining tactics". ^[55]

On April 13, 2007, Senator Stevens was recognized as being the longest serving Republican senator in history with a career spanning over 38 years. Events 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. His colleague, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI), referred to Stevens as 'The Strom Thurmond of the Arctic Circle'. is an American politician who currently serves as the senior United States Senator from Hawaii. James Strom Thurmond ( December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and

November 18, 2003, the senator's 80th birthday, was declared "Senator Ted Stevens Appreciation Day" by the Governor of Alaska, Frank H. Murkowski. Events 326 - The old St Peter's Basilica is consecrated 1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The Governor of Alaska is the head of the Executive branch of Alaska 's government and the Commander-in-chief of the state's military forces Francis Hughes Murkowski (born March 28, 1933) is an American Politician and a member of the Republican Party. ^[56]

Stevens delivered a eulogy of Gerald R. Ford at the 38th President's funeral ceremony on December 30, 2006. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President Events 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield. 1816 - The Treaty of St Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

See also

• Series of Tubes
• Earmark

Footnotes

External links

• United States Senator Ted Stevens, U. S. Senate site
• www.TedStevens2008.com, 2008 Re-election site

• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
• Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org
• Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
• Issue positions and quotes at On The Issues
• SourceWatch Congresspedia — Ted Stevens profile

Media

• "Alaska Political Corruption" Continuing coverage from the Anchorage Daily News
• Ted Stevens under criminal investigation for corruption
• Ted Stevens News from The New York Times

United States Senate
Preceded by Bob Bartlett	United States Senator (Class 2) from Alaska December 24, 1968 – present Served alongside: Ernest Gruening, Mike Gravel, Frank Murkowski, Lisa Murkowski	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Robert P. Griffin	Senate Minority Whip 1977 – 1981	Succeeded by Alan Cranston
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Persondata
NAME	Stevens, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stevens, Theodore Fulton
SHORT DESCRIPTION	senior United States Senator from Alaska
DATE OF BIRTH	November 18, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Indianapolis, Indiana
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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