Chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
In office January 3, 2015 – February 3, 2021
Preceded by
Mary Landrieu
Succeeded by
Joe Manchin
Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
In office January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2015
Preceded by
Pete Domenici
Succeeded by
Maria Cantwell
Vice Chair of the Senate Republican Conference
In office June 17, 2009 – September 17, 2010
Leader
Mitch McConnell
Preceded by
John Thune
Succeeded by
John Barrasso
Member of the Alaska House of Representatives from the 14th district
In office January 19, 1999 – December 20, 2002
Preceded by
Terry Martin
Succeeded by
Vic Kohring
Personal details
Born
Lisa Ann Murkowski
(1957-05-22) May 22, 1957 (age 66) Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska, U.S.
Political party
Republican
Spouse
Verne Martell
(m. 1987)
Children
2
Parent
Frank Murkowski (father)
Education
Georgetown University (BA) Willamette University (JD)
Signature
Website
Senate website
Lisa Murkowski's voice
Lisa Murkowski on her support for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Recorded August 1, 2021
Lisa Ann Murkowski (/mərˈkaʊski/mər-KOW-skee; born May 22, 1957) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator representing Alaska, having held that seat since 2002. She is the first woman to represent Alaska in the Senate and the Senate's second-most senior Republican woman, after Susan Collins of Maine. She became dean of Alaska's congressional delegation upon Representative Don Young's death.
Murkowski is the daughter of former U.S. senator and governor of Alaska Frank Murkowski. Before her appointment to the Senate, she served in the Alaska House of Representatives and was elected majority leader. She was controversially appointed to the Senate by her father, who resigned his seat in December 2002 to become governor of Alaska. She completed her father's unexpired Senate term, which ended in January 2005, and became the first Alaskan-born member of Congress.
Murkowski ran for and won a full term in 2004. After losing the 2010 Republican primary to Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, she ran as a write-in candidate and defeated both Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams in the general election. She is the second U.S. senator (after Strom Thurmond in 1954) to be elected by write-in vote. She was elected to a third term in 2016 and a fourth term in 2022, running as a Republican.
Murkowski was vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference from 2009 to 2010, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee from 2015 to 2021, and has been vice chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee since 2021.
She is often described as one of the Senate's most moderate Republicans, and a crucial swing vote. According to CQ Roll Call, she voted with President Barack Obama's position 72.3% of the time in 2013, one of only two Republicans to do so over 70% of the time. In recent years, she opposed Brett Kavanaugh and supported Ketanji Brown Jackson in their respective nominations to the Supreme Court. On February 13, 2021, she was one of seven Republican senators to vote to convict Donald Trump of incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment trial, for which she was censured by the Alaska Republican Party. In 2024, when asked if she intended to remain a Republican, Murkowski replied that she was "independently minded". Asked whether that meant she might drop her party affiliation, she responded: "I am navigating my way through some very interesting political times. Let's just leave it at that."[1]
^Lisa Murkowski says she's considering quitting Republican Party because of Trump, The Independent, John Bowden, March 25, 2024. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
Lisa Ann Murkowski (/mərˈkaʊski/ mər-KOW-skee; born May 22, 1957) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator representing...
office on December 2, 2002. Murkowski resigned his U.S. Senate seat before taking office and appointed his daughter, LisaMurkowski, to replace him. In his...
political positions of LisaMurkowski are reflected by her United States Senate voting record, public speeches, and interviews. LisaMurkowski is a Republican...
election in Alaska was held on November 8, 2022. Incumbent senator LisaMurkowski won reelection to a fourth full term, defeating fellow Republican Kelly...
and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Senator LisaMurkowski won re-election to a third term in office. The primaries were held on...
incumbent U.S. Senator LisaMurkowski. Miller was endorsed by the Tea Party movement and former Governor Sarah Palin. Murkowski announced that despite...
Frank Murkowski (born 1933), U.S. politician, Senator (1981–2002) and Governor of Alaska (2002–2006), father of LisaMurkowskiLisaMurkowski (born 1957)...
opinion had swung against the Murkowski family because of a tax increase passed by Governor Frank Murkowski, LisaMurkowski's father. In addition, many voters...
Democrats, both independents, and five Republicans (Susan Collins of Maine, LisaMurkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and Pat Toomey...
(Wisconsin), Mark Kelly (Arizona), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nevada), LisaMurkowski (Alaska), and Warnock (Georgia) faced competitive races but were all...
dean of the Alaska delegation is Senator LisaMurkowski having served in the Senate since 2002. LisaMurkowski is the first elected senator born in Alaska...
origin to Alaska's first legislature in 1913. After Republican Senator LisaMurkowski voted to impeach Donald Trump over his role in inciting a pro-Trump...
Senate in the 2022 election. She lost to the incumbent, Republican LisaMurkowski, by about seven percentage points. Thereafter, she became a leading...
elected to the Senate every two years, with the exception of 2004 (LisaMurkowski was elected for the first time in 2004, but had been appointed to the...
in January 2015 that he would run for re-election. Two-term senator LisaMurkowski (Republican) was appointed in 2002 and elected to a full term in 2004...
possible appointees to Murkowski's U.S. Senate seat, but Murkowski ultimately appointed his daughter, State Representative LisaMurkowski, as his successor...
to class 2 and class 3. The state's current senators are Republicans LisaMurkowski (serving since 2002) and Dan Sullivan (serving since 2015). A total...
Republican senator LisaMurkowski of Alaska called on Trump to resign immediately, stating: "I want him out. He has caused enough damage." Murkowski suggested...
faithless elector in Washington. In January 2017, Collins and Senator LisaMurkowski voted for Trump's nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, within...
from 2008 to 2014. In 2010, after incumbent Republican U.S. Senator LisaMurkowski lost her party's primary, Peltola helped run her successful write-in...
Governor Frank Murkowski, LisaMurkowski's father. In addition, many voters disapproved of apparent nepotism in the appointment of LisaMurkowski to the Senate...
beginning of the legislative session in 2003 when the representative-elect, LisaMurkowski, was appointed to the United States Senate. Dahlstrom resigned from...
(2019–2021) Jeanne Phillips, United States Ambassador to the OECD (2001–2002) LisaMurkowski, U.S. Senator from Alaska (2002–present) Susan Collins, U.S. Senator...
"recipe[s] for disaster". On February 5, 2022, Hutchinson and U.S. senator LisaMurkowski condemned the Republican National Committee's censure of Representatives...
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