Edgar Blatchford ran two more unsuccessful campaigns for US Senate in 2020 and 2022.
18 Facts About Edgar Blatchford
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Edgar Blatchford filed to run for lieutenant governor in the 2018 Democratic primary.
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Edgar Blatchford has been a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage since 1995, teaching in the Department of Journalism and Public Communications.
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Edgar Blatchford served as Commissioner of the Department of Community and Regional Affairs under Wally Hickel and Commissioner of Community and Economic Development under Frank Murkowski.
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Edgar Omegitjoak Blatchford was born in Nome, Alaska Territory in 1950 and relocated to Seward, Alaska in 1960.
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Edgar Blatchford graduated from Seward High School and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Alaska Pacific University, Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law, Masters of Arts degree in journalism from Columbia University, Master of Public Administration from Harvard University, and PhD from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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Edgar Blatchford founded the publishing company Alaska Newspapers, Inc in 1983.
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In 1990, Edgar Blatchford partnered with Calista Native Corporation to procure a total of six rural Alaskan newspapers.
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In 2011, Edgar Blatchford purchased The Tundra Drums and Seward Phoenix Log from Calista Corp.
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Edgar Blatchford worked as a member of Wally Hickel's cabinet in developing the Community Development Quotas program aimed at providing educational and vocational opportunities to rural Alaskans in Bristol Bay and other western Alaskan communities.
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Edgar Blatchford was appointed commissioner of Community and Economic Development in January 2003 by governor Frank Murkowski.
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On July 22,2005, Edgar Blatchford resigned his position as commissioner of Community and Economic Development due to conflict of interest allegations between his official state duties and ties with Chugach Alaska Corp.
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Until the 2016 Alaskan Senate race, Edgar Blatchford had been affiliated with the Republican Party, switching parties due to ideological reasons.
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Edgar Blatchford strongly supports reform of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, saying that it was an experiment that did not accomplish what it was charted to do.
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Edgar Blatchford is an advocate of background checks for gun ownership and states that his stance is in line with the intent of the Second Amendment.
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Edgar Blatchford believes smaller Alaskan communities would benefit from a more diverse economic base.
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Edgar Blatchford believes global warming is a scientific certainty that must be addressed.
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Edgar Blatchford wants Alaska to increase its prominence in studying climate change and the Arctic.