Alaska was admitted to the Union on January 3, 1959. Alaska's United States Senate seats belong to class 2 and class 3. The state's current senators are Republicans Lisa Murkowski (serving since 2002) and Dan Sullivan (serving since 2015). A total of eight people have represented Alaska in the U.S. Senate. Ted Stevens was Alaska's longest serving U.S. senator, serving from 1968 to 2009.
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Bob Bartlett| rowspan=5 | Democratic| rowspan=5 nowrap | Jan 3, 1959 –
Dec 11, 1968| Elected in 1958.| 1| | rowspan=2 | 1| rowspan=2 | Elected in 1958.| rowspan=7 nowrap | Jan 3, 1959 –
Jan 3, 1969| rowspan=7 | Democratic| rowspan=7 align=right |
Ernest Gruening! rowspan=7 |1
|- style="height:2em"| rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1960.| rowspan=3 | 2|
|- style="height:2em"| | rowspan=5 | 2| rowspan=5 | Re-elected in 1962.Lost renomination and then lost as a write-in candidate.
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|- style="height:2em"| Re-elected in 1966.Died.| rowspan=5 | 3|
|- style="height:2em"| colspan=3 | Vacant| Dec 11, 1968 –
Dec 24, 1968|
|- style="height:2em"! rowspan=23 | 2| rowspan=23 align=left |
Ted Stevens| rowspan=23 | Republican| rowspan=23 nowrap | Dec 24, 1968 –
Jan 3, 2009| rowspan=3 | Appointed to continue Bartlett's term.Elected in 1970 to finish Bartlett's term.
|- style="height:2em"| | rowspan=3 | 3| rowspan=3 | Elected in 1968.| rowspan=6 nowrap | Jan 3, 1969 –
Jan 3, 1981| rowspan=6 | Democratic| rowspan=6 align=right |
Mike Gravel! rowspan=6 | 2|- style="height:2em"|
|- style="height:2em"| rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1972.| rowspan=3 | 4|
|- style="height:2em"| | rowspan=3 | 4| rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1974.Lost renomination.
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|- style="height:2em"| rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1978.| rowspan=3 | 5|
|- style="height:2em"| | rowspan=3 | 5| rowspan=3 | Elected in 1980.| rowspan=11 nowrap | Jan 3, 1981 –
Dec 2, 2002| rowspan=11 | Republican| rowspan=11 align=right |
Frank Murkowski! rowspan=11 | 3
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|- style="height:2em"| rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1984.| rowspan=3 | 6|
|- style="height:2em"| | rowspan=3 | 6| rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1986.
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|- style="height:2em"| rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1990.| rowspan=3 | 7|
|- style="height:2em"| | rowspan=3 | 7| rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1992.
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|- style="height:2em"| rowspan=5 | Re-elected in 1996.| rowspan=5 | 8|
|- style="height:2em"| | rowspan=5 | 8| rowspan=2 | Re-elected in 1998.Resigned when elected Governor of Alaska.
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|- style="height:2em"| | Dec 2, 2002 –
Dec 20, 2002| colspan=3 | Vacant
|- style="height:2em"| rowspan=2 | Appointed to finish her father's term.| rowspan=14 nowrap | Dec 20, 2002 –
present| rowspan=14 | Republican| rowspan=14 align=right |
Lisa Murkowski! rowspan=14 | 4
|- style="height:2em"| rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 2002.Lost re-election.| rowspan=3 | 9|
|- style="height:2em"| | rowspan=3 | 9| rowspan=3 | Elected to a full term in 2004.
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|- style="height:2em"! rowspan=3 | 3| rowspan=3 align=left |
Mark Begich| rowspan=3 | Democratic| rowspan=3 nowrap | Jan 3, 2009 –
Jan 3, 2015| rowspan=3 | Elected in 2008.Lost re-election.| rowspan=3 | 10|
|- style="height:2em"| | rowspan=3 | 10| rowspan=3 | Lost renomination, but re-elected as a write-in candidate in 2010.
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|- style="height:2em"! rowspan=6 | 4| rowspan=6 align=left |
Dan Sullivan| rowspan=6 | Republican| rowspan=6 nowrap | Jan 3, 2015 –
present| rowspan=3 | Elected in 2014.| rowspan=3 | 11|
|- style="height:2em"| | rowspan=3 | 11| rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 2016.
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|- style="height:2em"| rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 2020.| rowspan=3 | 12|
|- style="height:2em"| | rowspan=3 | 12| rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 2022.
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|- style="height:2em"| rowspan=2 colspan=5 | To be determined in the 2026 election.| rowspan=2| 13|
|- style="height:2em"| | 13| colspan=5| To be determined in the 2028 election.
They Shall Have Stars, the first volume in science fiction writer James Blish's Cities in Flight series, was published in 1950 and is set in a fictional 2013. A major character is Alaska Senator Bliss Wagoner, head of the Joint Congressional Committee on Space Flight, who is depicted as playing a crucial role in Humanity's spread into space. At the time of writing, Alaska was not yet a state and had no senators, but Blish correctly assumed that this would come about by 2013.