page_title: Mead Treadwell
section_title: Lieutenant governor of Alaska
hierarchical_section_title: Mead Treadwell / Lieutenant governor of Alaska
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Tom Combs, an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter pilot assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, gives Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell a tour of the helicopter hangar at Coast Guard Forward Operating Location Barrow, Alaska, July 23, 2012. Two helicopters with supporting air, ground and communications crews were moved 900 miles north from Kodiak to Barrow to support the summer operational phase of the Arctic Shield 2012. Arctic Shield is a U.S. Coast Guard-directed exercise in conjunction with federal, state and tribal officials designed to test the Spilled Oil Response System as well as strengthen law enforcement and search-and-rescue capabilities in the Arctic regions of Alaska.
context_page_description: Louis Mead Treadwell II is an American businessman and politician who served as lieutenant governor of Alaska from 2010 to 2014. Treadwell is the former Chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission serving from 2006 to 2010. He is a member of the Republican Party and was a candidate for the 2014 U.S. Senate election in Alaska.
context_section_description: In May 2010, Treadwell announced his intent to run for Lt. Governor of Alaska. He gave his primary reasons for running as frustration with an overbearing federal government, concern for the flagging Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and a need to diversify Alaska's economy through international trade. Treadwell won the August 24, 2010 Republican primary election with approximately 53% of the vote, a margin of more than 22% over his closest opponent, state Representative Jay Ramras. Following his primary campaign victory, Treadwell's campaign joined with that of incumbent Republican Governor Sean Parnell.
  In the general election in November 2010, Parnell and Treadwell faced the Democratic ticket of Ethan Berkowitz and Diane E. Benson, as well as slates from the state's other two recognized parties, the Alaskan Independence and Libertarian parties. Parnell and Treadwell defeated their Democratic opponents by a margin of approximately 59 to 38 percent, with the other two candidates receiving the remaining 3 percent. Treadwell was sworn in as the Lieutenant Governor of Alaska on December 6, 2010.
caption: Treadwell in Barrow in July 2012, touring facilities during the U.S. Coast Guard's Arctic Shield exercise.
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