Don Young, the longest-serving member of Alaska’s congressional delegation, has died
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — — Don Young, a blunt-speaking Republican and longest-serving member of Alaska’s congressional delegation, has died. He was 88.“It’s with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we announce Congressman Don Young , the Dean of the House and revered champion for Alaska, passed away today while traveling home to Alaska to be with the state and people that he loved. His beloved wife Anne was by his side," said the statement from his spokesperson, Zach Brown.
“I can’t stand heat, and I was working on a ranch and I used to dream of some place cold, and no snakes and no poison oak,” Young told The Associated Press in 2016. After leaving the military and after his father’s death, he told his mother he was going to Alaska. She questioned his decision. In 1972, Young was the Republican challenger to Democratic U.S. Rep. Nick Begich. Three weeks before the election, Begich’s plane disappeared on a flight from Anchorage to Juneau. Alaskans reelected Begich anyway.
“Everybody knows Don Young,” he told the AP in 2016. “They may not like Don Young; they may love Don Young. But they all know Don Young.” He said he was happy every time he could help a constituent. “And I try to do that every day, and I’m very good at that,” he told AP in 2016. At that time, he said he’d had 190 of his bills pass the House and had 77 of them signed by a president.
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