page_title: Don Young
section_title: Committee assignments
hierarchical_section_title: Don Young / U.S. House of Representatives / Committee assignments
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Brent Sheehan, the 354th Fighter Wing command chief, speaks with U.S. Representative Don Young, Oct. 17, 2017, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Alaskan community leaders visited the installation for the F-35 Community Showcase. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Isaac Johnson)
context_page_description: Donald Edwin Young is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Alaska's at-large congressional district since 1973. He is the Republican Party's longest-serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives in history, having represented Alaska for 24 terms.
  Young is the longest currently serving member of Congress, as well as the last remaining member who has been in office since the Nixon Administration; he became the 45th Dean of the House of Representatives on December 5, 2017, after the resignation of John Conyers from Michigan. He also is the oldest current member of either chamber of Congress. Prior to the special election following the death of U.S. Representative Nick Begich in a plane crash, he was Mayor of Fort Yukon from 1964 to 1967 and elected to the Alaska House of Representatives from 1967 to 1971 and Alaska Senate from 1971 until 1973.
context_section_description: Committee on Natural Resources
  Subcommittee on Federal Lands
  Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs
  Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  Subcommittee on Aviation
  Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
  Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
caption: Congressman Donald Young visits the installation for the F-35 community showcase at Eielson Air Force Base
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