QUESTIONS:
1. Alaska Republican Gov. Frank Murkowski has just appointed his daughter Lisa, a GOP state senator, to the Senate seat he gave up. When was the last time a son of a senator was appointed to replace his father?
2. With his departure from the Senate at age 100, whom does Strom Thurmond now replace as the nation’s oldest-living former U.S. senator?
3. Prior to Lisa Murkowski, Alaska has had only one senator who achieved the office by appointment. Can you name him?
4. Gov. Murkowski, who previously served in the Senate for 22 years and has long been considered unbeatable, nevertheless lost a bid for another office before he was elected senator. What was the office?
5. Who was the only governor of Alaska who was neither Democrat nor Republican?
ANSWERS:
1. Republican Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, appointed to fill the vacancy created by the death of his father, Sen. John H. Chafee, in 1999.
2. Fellow Republican Hiram Fong, U.S. senator from Hawaii from 1959-76, who is 96.
3. Present Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, appointed to the vacancy created by the death of Democratic Sen. E. L. (Bob) Bartlett in 1968.
4. Murkowski was the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in 1970, but was defeated by Democrat Nick Begich.
5. Walter J. Hickel, a former Republican elected on the Alaskan Independence Party ticket in 1990, who served until 1994.
