Former Lambda Pi and Alaskan Congressmen Don Young has passed away at age 88.
Don “Rabbit” Young S- 52 will lie in state in the National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capital.
Don Young was one of Lambda Pi’s nine Distinguished CSUC Alumni.
Honored in 2006. His name is on our Lambda Pi Campus Memorial Bench.
The BOG and the Brothers of Lambda Pi honor and salute one of our most distinguished members.
(CNN)
US Rep. Don Young, an Alaska Republican and the longest-serving member of the current Congress, has died, his office said in a statement Friday. He was 88.
"It's with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we announce Congressman Don Young (R-AK), the Dean of the House and revered champion for Alaska, passed away today while traveling home to Alaska to be with the state and people that he loved," the statement said. "His beloved wife Anne was by his side."
Young, who was reelected in 2020 to his 25th term as the only representative from Alaska, was the dean of the House, a symbolic position given to the longest-serving member of the chamber.
The congressman's office remembered him as a "fierce defender of Alaska," writing that "from the Trans-Alaska pipeline, to the Ketchikan Shipyard, to the Magnuson Stevens Act, which transformed the American fishing industry, to the numerous land exchanges he fought for, Don Young's legacy cannot be overstated."
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