page_title: Dan Sullivan (U.S. senator)
section_title: 2014 election
hierarchical_section_title: Dan Sullivan (U.S. senator) / United States Senate / 2014 election
caption_attribution_description: A Haines mayoral campaign sign taped to the tailgate of a pickup truck bears a handwritten addendum on Oct. 15, 2014, two weeks after the borough's municipal election. (James Brooks photo)
context_page_description: Daniel Scott Sullivan is an American politician and lawyer serving as the junior United States Senator from Alaska since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
  Born in Fairview Park, Ohio, Sullivan earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center. He interned at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. After graduating from law school in 1993, he joined the United States Marine Corps, leaving active duty in 1997. Sullivan has served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, and was recalled to active duty from 2004 to 2006 and in 2009 and 2013.
  Between 1997 and 1999, Sullivan clerked for judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Alaska Supreme Court. After working as an attorney in private practice in Anchorage, Alaska from 2000 to 2002, he moved to Maryland to work for the Bush administration; Sullivan worked with the National Economic Council and the National Security Council and later served as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs.
context_section_description: On October 15, 2013, he announced that he was running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democratic incumbent Mark Begich in the 2014 election. Sullivan was endorsed by the Club for Growth.
  On June 10, 2014, Sullivan offered Begich the Alaska Agreement. This was a modified version of the People's Pledge. This tactic had previously been used in the Massachusetts 2012 U.S. Senate race between Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown to drastically limit outside, third party spending. Begich refused the Alaska Agreement. According to Ballotpedia, outside spending in the race went on to hit nearly $40 million.
  Despite a late-race endorsement of 2010 party nominee Joe Miller by Sarah Palin, Sullivan won the Republican primary on August 19, 2014, with 40% of the vote, and 32% and 25% for Miller and Treadwell respectively.
  On November 12, 2014, the Associated Press and CNN declared that Sullivan defeated Begich in the general election by about 8,000 votes—48.6 to 45.4 percent. At the time of the Associated Press call, there were approximately 31,000 votes left to count and Begich refused to concede. On November 17, 2014, Begich conceded the election to Sullivan. Final results showed that Sullivan defeated Begich 47.96% to 45.83%, a margin of 6,014 votes out of 282,400 cast.
caption: Bumper sticker from Sullivan's Senate campaign
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