Dan Sullivan

Details

Party Affiliation

Republican

In Office Since

Jan 1, 2015

Organization

United States Federal Government

Biography

Daniel Scott Sullivan (born November 13, 1964) is an American politician, attorney, and Marine Corps veteran serving as the junior United States senator from Alaska, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2010 to 2013 as commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and from 2009 to 2010 as Alaska Attorney General. Sullivan grew up in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Culver Academies in Indiana. He studied economics at Harvard University, then earned joint foreign service and Juris Doctor degrees from Georgetown University. He was on active duty for the United States Marine Corps from 1993 to 1997, 2004 to 2006, and in 2009 and 2013. Between 1997 and 1999, he clerked for judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Alaska Supreme Court. He worked as an attorney in private practice in Anchorage, Alaska, from 2000 to 2002. Sullivan moved to Washington, D.C., to work for the Bush administration; he worked with the National Economic Council and the National Security Council and later served as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs. Sullivan was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2014, defeating Democratic incumbent Mark Begich after winning the Republican primary against Mead Treadwell and Joe Miller. He was reelected in 2020 and is running for reelection in 2026.

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