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Hollis S. French II was a Democratic member of the Alaska Senate, serving since 2003. He was the Minority Leader from January 2014 until he left office that year. He authored an unsuccessful bill to strike down the state's same-sex marriage ban.〔(Senator proposes striking same-sex marriage ban ),Juneau Empire, Matt Woolbright, February 25, 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2015.〕 He applied for a state judgeship position in July 2015.〔(Hollis French applies for state superior court judge seat ), KTUU television, Chris Klint, July 21, 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015.〕 French is an attorney and he and his wife own and operate an apartment rental business. ==Early life and education== French worked in the Kuparuk Oilfield as a facility and drill site operator for ARCO Alaska while attending the University of Alaska, Anchorage. He graduated with a Bachelors degree in English. He attended Cornell Law School and graduated with a (Juris doctor). Before being elected to the state Senate, French was an assistant district attorney. French earned the ire of many of Alaska's veterans, military personnel, their families; especially current and former US Marines, when during the heat of his efforts to bring discredit on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who was running for Vice President in 2010, French himself became mired in controversy, when he was discovered to have falsely claimed to have been a US Marine. Though he did take a lone NROTC class in college decades earlier, he never took an oath of enlistment nor completed the grueling USMC boot camp or any officer basic training course to "earn" the title of US Marine. This earned him the nickname of "the gunny" with many Alaskan military veterans, a derisive context implying that as he had simply unilaterally "declared" himself to be a US Marine with no authority to do so, he surely had also promoted himself to the senior USMC rank of gunnery sergeant/pay grade E-7. French never addressed the controversy nor apologized for making such a claim. French has climbed Denali to the summit twice.〔(Hollis French for Senate campaign site )〕 His father, Bob French, is a county commissioner in Summit County, Colorado.〔http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20041018/ELECTION02/40916015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hollis French」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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