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Don Young To Seek 20th Term In Congress

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Story Created: Jun 29, 2009 at 11:14 AM AKDT

Story Updated: Jun 30, 2009 at 11:36 AM AKDT

Alaska's lone congressman in the U.S. House wants a 20th term.

U.S. Rep. Don Young announced at a news conference Monday in
Anchorage that he has filed for re-election.

The 76-year-old Republican was re-elected last year despite facing federal investigations of his connections to an Alaska businessman convicted of bribing state lawmakers and an earmark in a spending bill that benefited a campaign supporter.

Young was the Republican candidate in the general election 1972
against popular incumbent U.S. Rep. Nick Begich. Three weeks before
the election, Begich's plane disappeared on a flight from Anchorage
to Juneau. Alaskans re-elected the Democrat anyway.

Begich was declared dead in December 1972 and Young won a close
special election in March 1973.

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