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David L. Williams
Alaska Editor

David L. Williams has actively promoted the conservative Republican perspective since 1986. Elected to district office and as a delegate to the district and state conventions that year, David has served on the district committee of the Republican Party of Alaska most years since, and has attended every biennial convention since, except 2000. He is currently serving as Vice Chair of the district.

In various capacities he has helped with fundraisers, traditional Republican events, the annual Tanana Valley State Fair booth, and has worked on Republican gubernatorial, all Alaska congressional, and many state and local campaign races. Two major accomplishments in which he played a very active role were strengthening the State Constitution's individual right to keep and bear arms, and the enactment of a concealed carry permit process.

David graduated from Webb School for Boys (Claremont, California) and attended Colorado College. He served in the US Army from 1962-64, then spent several years working for Lockheed Aircraft in Ontario, California, then in Santa Barbara in paint manufacturing, carpentry, and construction remodeling, before moving to Fairbanks, Alaska in the summer of 1975, with his wife Bonnie and six year old son Jason.

Cause of that major uprooting? The California Coastal Commission, a form of socialist dictatorship that proved the last straw.

Once in Alaska, the family found that even in the Last Frontier, freedom was under massive assault. But this was the last frontier, so backs to the wall, they made their last stand, and have been fighting back against socialist ideas disguised as "liberal" ever since.

Crafting, carrying to the State convention, and helping get passed both resolutions and additions to the party platform that strengthen the conservative view have been very satisfying for David.

Since retiring, David has devoted a fair amount of time to researching political data on the Internet, and then culling and sending out two or three items a day to a growing list of addressees. He exchanges articles and ideas with individuals all around the country, and has a second mailing list within Alaska itself.

His wife drew heavily on his research while serving 3 different terms on the borough Assembly. She now serves on the State Board of Fish, and as moderator of the local weekly Republican luncheons.

Both are also active in the NRA, the Alaska Outdoor Council, and the Tanana Valley Sportsmen's Association, as well as being avid fly fishermen. Their son is now grown, married and the father of two boys, and carries forth the conservative flame.