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Republican U.S. senator from Alaska since 2015, former Alaska attorney general and Marine Corps officer, seeking a third Senate term in the 2026 election.
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- Born
- November 13, 1964
- Birthplace
- Fairview Park, Ohio
- Education
- Culver Military Academy (graduated 1983)
Harvard University (BA in economics, 1987)
Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service (Master of Science in Foreign Service, 1993)
Georgetown University Law Center (JD, 1993)
Biography & Campaign Analysis
Background
Daniel Scott Sullivan was born on November 13, 1964, in Fairview Park, a Cleveland suburb in Ohio, where he grew up; his father led RPM International, a company his grandfather had founded.
After finishing Indiana's Culver Military Academy in 1983, he earned an economics degree at Harvard University in 1987 and, in 1993, joint law and foreign service degrees from Georgetown University.
He received an infantry commission in the United States Marine Corps in 1993, served on active duty until 1997, moved to the reserve, and was recalled for service from 2004 to 2006, in 2009, and for a 2013 tour in Afghanistan. He reached the rank of colonel and retired from the Marines in 2024.
Career
Following clerkships with the Ninth Circuit and on the Alaska Supreme Court from 1997 to 1999, Sullivan practiced commercial and corporate law at the Anchorage office of Perkins Coie starting in 2000.
In 2002 he became a White House Fellow, working on National Security Council and National Economic Council staffs under President George W. Bush. Bush named him Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs in 2006, a post he held until January 2009.
Governor Sarah Palin then appointed him Alaska Attorney General, an office he held from June 2009 to December 2010, after which Governor Sean Parnell made him commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources.
In the 2014 Senate election he won the Republican primary over Joe Miller and Mead Treadwell and unseated the Democratic incumbent, Mark Begich; he was reelected in 2020 over Al Gross, 54% to 41%.
2026 race
Sullivan is running for a third term in the November 3, 2026, election, which Alaska runs with ranked-choice voting. In the nonpartisan primary held on August 18, 2026, he advanced with 41.4% of the vote, behind former Democratic congresswoman Mary Peltola at 49.5%. Daniel J. Sullivan, a former U.S. Forest Service employee who is unrelated to the senator, and Gerald Heikes also advanced to the general election.