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Lisa Ann Murkowski (born May 22, 1957 in Ketchikan, Alaska) is the senior United States Senator from Alaska and a member of the Republican Party. She has served in the Senate since 2002. She became the state's senior senator when Ted Stevens retired in 2009. She 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 eventually elected majority leader. Murkowski was appointed to the U.S. Senate by her father, Frank Murkowski, who resigned his seat in December 2002 to become the Governor of Alaska. She completed her father's unexpired term which ended in January 2005. She ran for and won a full term in 2004. She ran for a second term in 2010. She lost the Republican Party nomination to Tea Party candidate Joe Miller. She then ran as a write-in candidate and defeated both Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams in the general election, making her the first senator to be elected by write-in vote since Strom Thurmond in 1954.〔Yardley, William. "(Murkowski Wins Alaska Senate Race )." ''The New York Times''. 2010-11-17. Retrieved 2014-11-13.〕 ==Early life, education, and early career== Murkowski was born to Nancy Rena (née Gore) and Frank Murkowski.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= MURKOWSKI, Lisa – Biographical Information )〕 Her paternal great-grandfather was of Polish descent, and her mother had Irish and French Canadian ancestry. As a child, she and her family moved around the state with her father's job as a banker. She earned a B.A. in economics from Georgetown University in 1980, the same year her father was elected to the U.S. Senate. She is a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Notable Pi Beta Phis in Government and Politics )〕 and represented the state of Alaska as the 1980 Cherry Blossom Princess.〔http://thehill.com/capital-living/24023-queens-of-the-cherry-blossoms〕 From Willamette University College of Law, she received her J.D. in 1985. Then, she was employed as an attorney in the Anchorage District Court Clerk's office from 1987 to 1989. From 1989 to 1998, she was an attorney in private practice in Anchorage, Alaska. She also served, from 1990 to 1991, on the mayor's task force for the homeless. 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「Lisa Murkowski」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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