Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and member(s) of the House to two-year terms.
Before becoming a state, the Territory of Alaska elected a non-voting delegate at-large to Congress from 1906 to 1959.
[3] Each state elects two senators by statewide popular vote every six years.
William Egan and Ernest Gruening were elected to the Senate on October 6, 1956 for the 84th Congress but did not take the oath of office and were not accorded senatorial privileges, since Alaska was not yet a state.
Starting on August 14, 1906, Alaska sent a non-voting delegate to the House.