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Dan Sullivan (Anchorage mayor)
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Daniel Albert Sullivan (born June 16, 1951) is an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Anchorage from 2009 to 2015 and on the Anchorage Assembly from 1999 to 2008. The son of Anchorage's longest-serving mayor, George M. Sullivan, he was the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Alaska in the 2014 election but he and incumbent Governor Sean Parnell were defeated by the ticket of Independent Bill Walker and Democrat Byron Mallott.
Sullivan was born the third of seven sons, and nine children overall, of George Murray and Margaret Mary (née Eagan) Sullivan. His parents were from the Alaskan communities of Valdez and Fairbanks, respectively. The Sullivan family came to Anchorage from Fairbanks in 1958 and 1959, when George Sullivan was hired as a regional executive for Consolidated Freightways. Dan Sullivan graduated from the University of Oregon with a bachelor's degree in political science.
In the mid-1990s, he was the executive director of the Arctic Winter Games, which were held in 1996 in the northern Anchorage communities of Chugiak and Eagle River.
In 1999, Sullivan was elected to the first of three consecutive terms on the Anchorage Assembly. During his time on the Assembly, he sponsored an ordinance requiring lobbyists to disclose their affiliations when petitioning city government, which was largely in response to the lobbying efforts conducted within the municipal government by Tom Anderson, who concurrently served in the Alaska House of Representatives. In 2005, he voted against an Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility rate increase and in 2006 he challenged a city ordinance limiting the size and style of signs.
Sullivan, along with business partners, opened a bar and restaurant in downtown Anchorage in 2006 called McGinley's Pub. Located on G Street on the ground floor of an office building catering mostly to corporate and legal tenants, McGinley's sits due south across the alley from Anchorage's City Hall building, which houses the mayor's office.
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