2006 Alaska gubernatorial election
The 2006 Alaska gubernatorial general election took place on November 7, 2006. The former mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin, defeated incumbent governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary, and then went on to defeat former governor Tony Knowles in the general election. Palin became the first governor of the state to be born after Alaskan statehood.
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Palin would later become the unsuccessful Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008, before resigning as governor in 2009.
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