Jim Duncan (Alaska politician)

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

[1][2]Duncan graduated from Rockridge High School in Taylor Ridge, Illinois in 1960, and received an A.A. from Sheldon Jackson College, in Sitka, Alaska in 1962; attended Seattle University and got a B.A.

[4][3] From 1972 to 1974, Duncan was appointed and elected as a member of the City and Borough Assembly Juneau in Alaska.

He was Alaska's 1998 Democratic congressional candidate, running against incumbent Representative Don Young, who was then in his 13th term.

[4] 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.