Byron Mallott

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Byron Mallott (2014)

Byron Ivar Mallott (born April 6, 1943 in Yakutat , Alaska , † May 7 or 8, 2020 in Anchorage , Alaska) was an American politician with the Democratic Party and from December 1, 2014 to October 16, 2018, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Alaska.

Career

Byron Mallott was born in 1943 in Yakutat , where he also grew up. His parents owned a village shop ; later his father held the office of mayor of the city. Mallott visited after graduating from high school , the Western Washington University . In 1965, Mallott, who is a member of the Democratic Party , began his political career unexpectedly with the death of his father when he subsequently ran himself for election as mayor. He was actually elected at the age of 22. However, Mallott only ended his father's tenure. In 1966 he left the town hall of his hometown again. Shortly thereafter, he took on a new position on the staff of Governor Bill Egan . As an employee of the governor, Mallott was primarily responsible for relations with the local authorities. In 1967 he returned to the local politics of Yakutat as a city ​​councilor after Governor Egan's electoral defeat . Between 1971 and 1974 he worked again for Bill Egan, after he re-emerged as head of Alaska.

In 1975 Mallott moved into business, where he served on the board of directors of Sealaska Corporation . He was with the company until 1992. He then held senior positions for the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF), a government- funded fund that manages profits from local Alaskan oil production. He briefly took up his political career in 1994 after he was elected Mayor of Juneau . The fact that Mallott continued to work at APF earned him such harsh criticism that he was forced to resign in 1995.

In September 2013, Mallott announced his candidacy for Alaska governor for election the following year. He was able to win the internal party primaries for the Democrats in August 2014 with 66 percent of the vote. On September 2, 2014, Mallott announced surprisingly that he would withdraw his application for the governorship. Previously there had been talks with the non-party candidate Bill Walker , during which Mallott's withdrawal from the race was agreed. Instead, he should act as Walker's running mate , his candidate for the office of lieutenant governor . The background was that both ex-Republican Walker and the Democrats had a common interest in replacing incumbent Governor Sean Parnell from the Republicans . By joining forces with Walker and Mallott, the voices of Parnell's opponents should be bundled. If these votes were split, a Republican election victory was considered very likely, since a candidate is already elected governor with a simple majority. In the election campaign, the politics of the previous government played a central role: Parnell had made himself unpopular with a series of tax cuts for oil companies. His handling of various incidents of discrimination in the National Guard also recently damaged his reputation.

In the gubernatorial election on November 4, 2014, Walker and Mallott ran for a so-called Unity Ticket . In the end, they were able to win this election with 48.1 percent of the vote. Parnell received 45.9 percent; which made a difference of around 6000 votes. Due to the long counting of votes and the scarcity of the race, the official result was only certain a few days after the polls. Mallott was sworn in to lieutenant governor of Alaska and thus deputy governor Walker on December 1, 2014.

For the 2018 gubernatorial election, Walker and Mallott planned to run together again. However, on October 16, 2018, a few weeks before the election, Mallott announced his immediate resignation as lieutenant governor. Mallott had previously been criticized for making inappropriate comments to an employee. What kind of comments it was, however, was not made public. A few days after Mallott's resignation, Walker announced his exit from the election campaign and announced his support for the Democrat Mark Begich .

Private life

Mallot lived with his wife Toni in West Juneau , a district of Juneau. The couple had five children.

Web links

Commons : Byron Mallott  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fmr. Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott passes away at 77. In: ktuu.com. May 8, 2020, accessed on May 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallot Biography on the Lieutenant Governor's website
  3. ↑ Walker, Mallott to join forces in governor's race (English)
  4. ↑ Bill Walker, an Independent, Wins Governor's Race in Alaska (English)
  5. ↑ Alaska's lieutenant governor resigns over 'inappropriate comments' 3 weeks before election , CNN, October 17, 2018 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Mallott, Byron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mallott, Byron I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Yakutat , Alaska
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2020 or May 8, 2020
Place of death Anchorage , Alaska