The death of Republican Don Young, Alaska’s sole congressman and the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives, has set off what is already proving to be the most crowded, unpredictable special election in recent memory.
Young first came to Congress 49 years ago, in a 1973 special election after Democratic Rep. Nick Begich disappeared in a plane crash. Young was just the fourth person to represent Alaska in the U.S. House after it became a state.
Not only is Alaska’s at-large seat open for the first time in half a century, but the special will take place under Alaska’s…
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