Our updated story: Mary Peltola will be the first Alaska Native person to serve in Congress. “I will have that distinction,” she says. “But I think what’s most important is that I’m Alaskan and being sent to represent all Alaskans.”
Mary Peltola hugs her husband, Gene “Buzzy” Peltola, after learning Wednesday she had won Alaska’s special U.S. House race. Wednesday was also Peltola’s 49th birthday.
Peltola, who surpassed Palin by three percentage points, will be the first Alaska Native person to serve in Congress. Peltola, who is Yup’ik and represented Bethel in the state House for a decade, was ahead of former Gov. Palin by almost 9 percentage points when only first-choice ballots were counted.
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