Dan Sullivan
Republican · AK · U.S. Senate
Bio
Daniel Scott Sullivan is an American politician, attorney, and Marine Corps veteran serving since 2015 as the junior United States senator from the state of Alaska. A member of the Republican Party, Sullivan served from 2010 to 2013 as commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and from 2009 to 2010 as Alaska attorney general.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 11.6 years
- First took office
- 2015 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 62 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 61
- Senate class
- 2 · junior senator
- Anchorage, AK · 907-271-5915
- Fairbanks, AK · 907-456-0261
- Juneau, AK · 907-205-3767
- Ketchikan, AK · 907-225-6880
- Soldotna, AK · 907-262-4040
- Wasilla, AK · 907-357-9956
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $4.1M – $12.4M
- Liabilities
- $560k – $1.1M
- Net worth
- $3.0M – $11.8M
- Since 2018
- +$5.0M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Dan Sullivan's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Dan Sullivan (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Sullivansits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Workscenter · 19 members
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Sullivan's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Dan Sullivan endorses Dan Sullivan to beat Dan Sullivan in perplexing Alaska Senate raceA third Dan Sullivan — a former Anchorage mayor — has weighed in on the competitive Senate race, endorsing Sen. Dan S. Sullivan over former teacher Dan J. Sullivan.
NBC News · Today
Ex-Mayor Dan Sullivan backs Dan Sullivan to beat Dan Sullivan in bonkers Alaska Senate raceAnother Dan Sullivan has chimed in on the bonkers Alaska Senate race saga over his namesake, urging voters to back incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan over his foe, former teacher Dan J. Sullivan.
New York Post · Yesterday
Dan Sullivan Endorses Dan Sullivan to Defeat Dan Sullivan in All-Time Bonkers Senate RaceYet another Dan Sullivan has come out of the woodwork in the bizarre Alaska Senate race — in which Dan Sullivan is taking on Dan Sullivan. The post Dan Sullivan Endorses Dan Sullivan to Defeat Dan Sullivan in All-Time Bonkers Senate Race first appeared on Med…
Mediaite · Yesterday
Alaska Republicans scramble to educate voters on suspected Dem plant as 'ballot fatigue' threatens raceDan Sullivan faces voter confusion from a candidate look-alike sharing his name as Alaska's ranked choice voting system adds complexity to the Senate race.
Fox News · Yesterday
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