David M. Talerico is an American politician from

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S. ...

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, he has served in the

Alaska House of Representatives The Alaska State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Alaska Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alaska. The House is composed of 40 members, each of whom represents a district of approximately 17,756 people per ...

since 2015. He represents House District 6, a vast district in

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that encompasses the

Denali Borough The Denali Borough is a Borough (United States), borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census the population of the borough was 1,619, down from 1,826 in 2010. The borough seat and most populat ...

and other unincorporated areas. He is the longest-serving mayor of the Denali Borough, in office from 2002 to 2012, and briefly served on the Borough Assembly again from 2013 to 2014, when he was elected to the House of Representatives. He is a longtime resident of Healy. Talerico previously ran unsuccessfully for a House seat against

David Guttenberg David Guttenberg (born May 26, 1951) is an American politician serving as a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he was a ...

, a

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from Fairbanks. He worked for Republican Representative Doug Isaacson as a legislative staffer from 2012 to 2013. He is a miner by trade and was the director of human resources and safety at the Usibelli Coal Mine at the time of his election to the House of Representatives in 2014.

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