John Rader

John Rader
John Rader
Member of the Alaska House of Representatives; from the 10th district
	In office; January 26, 1959 – April 27, 1959
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Blanche L. McSmith
1st Attorney General of Alaska
	In office; 1959–1960
Governor	William Egan
Preceded by	J. Gerald Williams (as territorial attorney general)
Succeeded by	Ralph E. Moody
Member of the Alaska House of Representatives; from the 8th district
	In office; January 28, 1963 – January 23, 1967
Preceded by	Redistricted
Succeeded by	Multi-member district
Member of the Alaska Senate; from the J district; (E district 1969–1975)
	In office; January 27, 1969 – January 15, 1979
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Ed Dankworth
President of the Alaska Senate
	In office; January 10, 1977 – January 15, 1979
Preceded by	Chancy Croft
Succeeded by	Clem Tillion
Personal details
Born	John Lafayette Rader; February 11, 1927; Howard, Kansas
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	University of Kansas (BS, JD)

John Lafayette Rader (born February 11, 1927) is an American Democratic politician, who served as the first Attorney General of Alaska. He was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1959 to 1960 and 1963-1966 and the Senate from 1969 to 1979. He was the Senate president from 1977 to 1979.^[1]^[2]

He was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1968, losing the Democratic primary to Nick Begich.^[3] Begich would go on to lose to incumbent Howard Wallace Pollock.

References[edit]

^ "John Rader". The Alaska State Legislature. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
^ Lapham, Lewis (May 1970). "Alaska: Politicians and Natives, Money and Oil". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
^ "John Rader". The Alaska State Legislature. Retrieved 5 April 2022.

[legislature-1] "John Rader". The Alaska State Legislature. Retrieved 14 October 2021.

[Lapham-2] Lapham, Lewis (May 1970). "Alaska: Politicians and Natives, Money and Oil". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 14 October 2021.

[legislature2-3] "John Rader". The Alaska State Legislature. Retrieved 5 April 2022.

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v t e Attorneys General of Alaska
Territorial (1916–59)	Grigsby Murphy Rustgard Truitt Roden Rivers Williams
State (since 1959)	Rader Moody Hayes Colver Burr Boyko Edwards Havelock Gorsuch Gross Condon Gorsuch Brown Schaible Baily Cole Botelho Renkes Márquez Colberg Sullivan Burns Geraghty Richards Lindemuth Clarkson Taylor

v t e Presidents of the Alaska Senate
Territorial (1912–59)	Ray Sutherland Hubbard Frawley Sundback Hunt Ayer Howard Steel Hess Shattuck Hess Brunelle Walker Roden Cochran Coffey Nerland Engebreth Jones Nolan Rivers
State (since 1959)	Beltz Peratrovich McNealy Butrovich Phillips Hammond T. Miller Croft Rader Tillion Kerttula Bennett Faiks T. Kelly Eliason Halford Pearce M. Miller Pearce Halford Therriault B. Stevens Green G. Stevens Huggins Meyer P. Kelly Giessel Micciche G. Stevens