Rep. Young, at 88 the oldest and longest-serving member of the current Congress, died Friday. A Republican from Fort Yukon, he fashioned a career as Alaska’s winningest politician ever, gradually building the kind of seniority in Congress that became its own compelling argument for his reelection.
. She was a Gwich’in Athabascan from Fort Yukon, and they had been married since the days when he was teaching fifth grade.
Early in his career, Young brought in a Maryland campaign consultant whose TV and radio jingle — “Don Young, Alaskan Like You” — was meant, the adviser said years later, to convey the image of Davy Crockett frontiersman. The image stuck. Later reports of lavish trips paid for by lobbyists and industrialists, to exclusive hunting clubs and MGM’s five-diamond Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, could not dislodge the caricature of the one-time trapper, gold miner and Bush village teacher.
Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., delivers a gift to Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on her nomination to be Interior secretary, Feb. 23, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. On the campaign trail, he could be a genial handpumper and storyteller, fun to be around. But his relations with the press were distant at best. He had to apologize for a few testy shoves of reporters, and never did answer detailed media questions about the FBI and ethics investigations. Still, the former tugboat captain always made good copy. Journalists wrote about his resilience with awe.
U.S. House candidate Don Young, right, meets with President Richard Nixon in the White House Oval Office on January, 31, 1973, as they discussed Alaska's unique problems and opportunities, especially the pipeline and the development of natural resources. He slipped quickly into a comfortable role in the nation’s capitol. On the big Alaska issues in front of Congress at the time, powerful people wanted to get the Alaska congressman’s input. In 2014, in an interview with the Washington Post, Young recalled the clubby congeniality of those early years, when committee members from both parties would meet for drinks after five in the chairman’s office, and then present a united front when others in Congress tried to mess with their bill.
It was his leadership of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, from 2001 to 2006, that conferred the most power — and nearly led to his downfall.In 2007, Young came under investigation for possibly receiving favors and illegal contributions from the oil field services contractor Veco. The company’s ties to Republican state legislators and U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens had become a political scandal in Alaska.
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