Larry R. Seaquist (born September 7, 1938) is an American politician, retired Navy captain, and academic who served as a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 2007 to 2015.
Seaquist dropped out of college in his junior year, working for a few months as a firefighter and ambulance driver for the Corvallis Fire Department.
Living beside the indigenous village of Kaktovic, Alaska, Seaquist becoming a specialist in flying twice-daily radiosonde balloon probes of the atmosphere and reporting on ice and weather conditions.
That year extended to 14 months when the Argentine icebreaker, General San Martine, stuck in the ice in the Wendell Sea, was unable to resupply the station on time.
[7] Since leaving the Washington House of Representatives, Seaquist has worked as a Political Science professor at the Evergreen State College, and speaks as an expert on national security and military issues.