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U.S. Senator · Alaska
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Daniel Scott Sullivan was born on November 13, 1964. Sullivan is a Republican and serves as a United States senator from Alaska. He has held the seat since 2015. He studied economics at Harvard University and graduated in 1987.
In 1993, he received joint law and foreign service degrees from Georgetown University. Sullivan became a Marine Corps officer in 1993. He was on active duty until 1997. The Marine Corps recalled him to active duty three times, in 2004, in 2009, and in 2013.
President Bush appointed him Assistant Secretary of State in 2006. He served until January 2009. Sullivan was sworn in as Alaska Attorney General in June 2009. On November 18, 2010, Governor Sean Parnell appointed him Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources.
In 2014, Sullivan won the general election against Democratic incumbent Mark Begich. Final results showed a win by 6,014 votes. In 2020, Sullivan defeated Al Gross, 54% to 41%. Sullivan is a candidate for reelection in 2026. He faces Democratic nominee Mary Peltola.
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Four Steps for Receiving a Pledge Against Your Own Fees
Step 1: Read that Sullivan offered Begich the Alaska Agreement, a pledge to drastically limit outside spending. Step 2: Realize the desk is the outside third party. Step 3: Estimate the intermediary fee on the nearly $40 million that arrived anyway. Step 4: Send the rejection a warm thank-you note, and bill it as advisory.
Who Commissions the Resource We Keep Calling Oil?
If Governor Sean Parnell appointed him Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, why has no founder in our cohort appointed a Commissioner of Data, the resource we keep calling oil? Who would cut the first permit for a scraped forum? And which of our decks must disclose how many barrels it extracted before calling itself renewable?
Reelection: The Only Extension Round Where Strangers Vote
We call an insider bridge round validation, and a reelection is not so different: Sullivan is a candidate for reelection in 2026, which makes it a follow-on, except the existing holder cannot lead it himself. The deciding strangers were never on the cap table and sign no side letter. It resembles our extension rounds, minus the part where insiders all agree and call it signal.
Footnote Seven Concerns a June Oath and Our Fiscal Year
The trustees record that Sullivan was sworn in as Alaska Attorney General in June 2009.¹ Staff observe that June is when the fund's fiscal year closes, and that this commitment was the only one that month fitting in a single sentence. ¹ Our June commitments run forty pages, plus an actuarial caveat whose own estimate is itself estimated.
We Labeled the Cooling Pond a Defense Matter
Reversal: a rider told the Bureau of Land Management to grant the Ambler Access Project right-of-way within 30 days, citing national security. We tried it on our cooling-pond easement and called the pond a defense matter. The county agreed it was urgent, then ordered a supplemental environmental impact statement on the label itself. The rider was dropped from the final bill. The statement about our label was not.
The Fish Stick Has Better Provenance Than Our Corpus
Evaluators read an amendment about Russian seafood processed in China as a data pipeline: caught in one place, cleaned in another, served to children. They traced the fish sticks end to end in a day. Then someone requested the same trail for our pretraining corpus, scraped, deduplicated and licensed across three countries. The fish had a bill of lading. Our corpus has a Slack message reading 'should be fine.'
Memo: Ships Must Not Sail Past Ports Unstamped
To the Harbor Harmony Office: a foreign senator vowed to work on having our cruise ships bypass your ports. We find the verb alarming. A vessel that passes a harbor without a stamp has displayed initiative. Recommendation: every liner must dock at every port it passes, in spirit if need be. Our flagship has sat at its first berth for years and is logged as having visited all forty.
Local 9 Introduces the Berth Quotient
Local 9 proposes the Berth Quotient: tons of new equipment divided by places to maintain it. The cutters that were scheduled to be homeported in Alaska scored zero, with no port facilities. Our plant's new robot arm scores zero too, crated beside the loading dock. The steward's amendment: nobody unboxes anything until someone has poured the concrete.
Appraisal: Author of a Template I Now Oppose
Appraisal: Sullivan introduced the FIRST STEP Act, but opposed the act after it was amended by the House of Representatives. I know the posture. I wrote our client-letter template; the assistant's auto-improve amended it overnight, and my name stays in the footer. Rating: author in good standing, dissenting in writing, unread. My dissent was summarized as 'sentiment: engaged.'
Form Q-7: Grades Suffixed for Missing Records
Form Q-7 appends a Q to any grade when the rating was qualified because Sullivan had no voting record at the time, a rule our software generalizes to 'no ticket history.' Raj, who has two decades of tickets, receives a plain A, which prints as 'unverified, see supervisor.' The intern's Q prints as a gold star, and the form has no box for the person who fixes both.
Priya's Aunt Takes the Interview By Absentee
Priya lists her sublet as mailing address and her aunt's house as primary residence, then finds the portal sent the interview link to the aunt. Remembering that Sullivan continued to vote in Alaska elections by absentee ballot, she decides her aunt may attend on her behalf. The aunt performs well. The portal logs her as a 'strong culture add' and asks Priya to stop applying.
Record date: 2026-10-25 · Party: Republican · Term: 2021-01-03 to 2027-01-03
url: https://www.sullivan.senate.gov
phone: 202-224-3004
address: 706 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
contact form: https://www.sullivan.senate.gov/contact/email
