A politician with this surname, the last Democrat to win an election in his district until 2022, names a 14-story apartment building that houses nearly all of the population of Whittier. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this surname of the politician who defeated Don Young to win reelection as a Representative in 1972 despite having disappeared in a plane crash three weeks prior.
ANSWER: Begich [accept Nick Begich or Nicholas Joseph Begich, Sr.]
[10e] Begich was from this state, where his son Mark later won a Senate race against an incumbent who also died in a plane crash and infamously called the Internet a “series of tubes.” That incumbent was Ted Stevens.
ANSWER: Alaska [or AK]
[10h] In the subsequent special election, Young defeated this Koyukon Athabascan activist who was the first President of the Alaska Federation of Natives and helped develop the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
ANSWER: Emil Notti [or Emil Reynold Notti]
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