• Office Sought: Senator, Alaska
• Birth Date: Nov. 18, 1923
• Occupation: Attorney
• Religion: Episcopalian
• Web site: http://www.stevens.senate.gov

Education

• Harvard University, JD
• University of California, BA

Ted Stevens was born in Indianapolis and resides in Girdwood. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1947 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1950.

He served as a pilot in the Army Air Forces from 1943 to 1946. After completing law school, he practiced law in Washington, D.C., from 1950 to 1952. In 1953, he was appointed U.S. attorney in Fairbanks, Alaska, serving until 1956.

He returned to Washington in 1956 and worked in the Interior Department until 1960. He returned to Alaska in 1961 and practiced law there.

He served in the Alaska House, 1965-1968. He was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1968, by then-Republican Gov. Walter Hickel, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Democratic Sen. E.L. Bartlett.

Stevens began Senate service Dec. 24, 1968. He won a special election for the Senate seat in 1970 and was re-elected to six consecutive terms.

He and his wife, Catherine, have one child. Stevens had five children by his first wife, Ann, who died in a plane crash in 1978.