Jim Duncan (born May 4, 1942 in Muscatine, Iowa) is an Alaskan state and local officeholder, educator and government and union executive.

Early life and education

Duncan was born to Paul and Hazel Duncan in Muscatine, Iowa on the Mississippi River. Jim_Southcliff_Circle_2011

Duncan graduated from Rockridge High School in Taylor Ridge, Illinois in 1960, and received an A.A. from Sheldon Jackson College, in

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in 1962; attended

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and got a B.A. degree from Illinois State University in 1965, and a master's degree in Business Administration from Oregon State University, in 1970.

Career

Duncan was an accountant and taught at Sheldon Jackson, Sitka (Islands) Community College, and the Juneau-Douglas Community College. He was the controller for the tribal Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority. He was a supervisor in Alaska's Department of Revenue, the Commissioner of Administration during the Tony Knowles governorship, and was the Business Manager of the Alaska State Employees Association, an AFSCME affiliate, the state's largest union.Jim Duncan
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''Alaska Legislature''. Retrieved May 4, 2021. From 1972 to 1974, Duncan was appointed and elected as a member of the City and Borough Assembly Juneau in Alaska. He was a Democratic party candidate for Alaska U.S. Representative in the general election of 1998, running against incumbent Representative

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, who was then in his 13th term. Duncan was the Executive Director of the Alaska State Employees Association, an AFSCME affiliate, the state's largest union, from February 2003 through December 2017.

Tenure

Duncan served on the Juneau-Douglas Borough Assembly, in the Alaska House of Representatives 1975-1986 (Speaker, 1981–1982), and Alaska Senate 1987–1998, including a term as Minority Leader. He was Alaska's 1998 Democratic congressional candidate, running against incumbent Representative

, who was then in his 13th term.

Personal

Jim and his wife Carol Jean Acevada, who was a Tlingit tribal member, business owner and educator from Kake, Alaska had seven children: Jim Jr., Desiree, Michelle, Derek, Jon, Marc, Caron, and, by his second wife Charlotte, stepdaughter Kathy.Charlotte Duncan
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References

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