Ted Stevens

Ted Stevens, born in 1923, Republican member of the United States Senate from Alaska (1968- ). Stevens was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II (1939-1945). He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1947 and a law degree from Harvard University in 1950. He moved to Alaska in the early 1950s. He was the U.S. attorney for Alaska from 1953 to 1956, then worked for the U.S. Department of the Interior until 1961. From 1965 to 1968 he was a representative in the Alaska House, where he became majority leader and speaker pro tempore. Alaska governor Walter Hickel appointed Stevens to the U.S. Senate in December 1968, when Democratic senator E. L. Bartlett died. Stevens won election to the Senate in subsequent elections.