Clark S. Gruening ( / ˈ ɡ r iː n ɪ ŋ / GREEN -ing ; born March 28, 1943) is an attorney and Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of Alaska . He is chiefly known as the second of three persons to defeat the incumbent holder of Alaska's Class 3 United States Senate seat in the primary election .
5-421: Gruening may refer to : Clark Gruening (born 1943), American attorney and politician. Ernest Gruening (1887–1974), grandfather of Clark, American journalist and politician, governor of Alaska Territory 1939–1953, U.S. Senator from Alaska 1959-1969 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
10-673: The University of Oregon in 1965 and a J.D. from George Washington University in 1969. He moved to Anchorage that same year. Gruening, an attorney outside politics, was elected to two terms in the Alaska House of Representatives starting in 1974. In the 1980 U.S. Senate election in Alaska , he ran in the Democratic primary, defeating incumbent Senator Mike Gravel . In 1968, Gravel had himself defeated Clark's grandfather, Ernest Gruening , in
15-485: The Democratic primary. Both election results were attributed to Alaska's blanket primary system, which was brand new in 1968 and eventually discontinued due to complaints by individual political parties that members of other parties had a hand in the selection of their party's nominees. Specifically, it was felt that Republicans and supporters of Frank Murkowski voted in large numbers for Gruening in hopes of eliminating Gravel. Extremely unpopular with Alaskan voters at
20-463: The title Gruening . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gruening&oldid=983805078 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Clark Gruening Clark Gruening
25-588: Was born in San Francisco, California , the son of Huntington Sanders "Hunt" Gruening, the second-born and (after 1955) only surviving son of Ernest Gruening , who at the time of Clark's birth was governor of the Territory of Alaska . He grew up in Juneau, Alaska , where his father was an airline pilot and executive. Clark graduated from Juneau-Douglas High School in 1961. He received a B.A. in political science from
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