Answer the following question: Information: - Alaska is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east; its most extreme western part is Attu Island; it has a maritime border with Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seasthe southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 3rd least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's residents (the total estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy. - A U.S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are bound together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory, and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders (e.g., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody). - Sean R. Parnell ( born November 19 , 1962 ) is an American politician . Parnell , a Republican , succeeded to the office of Governor of Alaska in 2009 when Governor Sarah Palin resigned . Parnell was sworn into office on July 26 , 2009 . He served as the tenth Governor of Alaska from 2009 to 2014 . Parnell was elected Governor of Alaska in his own right in 2010 by 59.06 % of the vote -- the largest percentage margin of any Alaska governor since statehood . In 2014 , he narrowly lost his bid for re-election and has since returned to work in the private sector . Born in Hanford , California , Parnell is a graduate from the University of Puget Sound 's School of Law ( now known as Seattle University School of Law ) . He practiced law before being elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1992 and he continued to work in private legal practice while he was a member of the Alaska House and later , the Alaska Senate . He served two terms in the Alaska House from 1993 to 1997 before he was elected to one term in the Alaska Senate from 1997 to 2001 . Parnell continued his legal career in the private sector , working as an attorney and as the state government relations director for Phillips Petroleum ( Alaska ) ( now known as ConocoPhillips Alaska ) and an attorney at the law firm Patton Boggs . Returning to public service , Parnell won the Republican primary race for lieutenant governor in 2006 and became Sarah Palin 's running mate in her 2006 gubernatorial campaign , where the Palin - Parnell ticket defeated former Democratic Governor Tony Knowles . Parnell was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Alaska in December 2006 and later assumed the governorship after Palin resigned in July 2009 . Parnell was elected to a full term as Governor in 2010 , defeating former State Representative Ethan Berkowitz in the general election . Parnell is the first unelected Alaska Governor to be elected in his own right . He was narrowly defeated for a second term in 2014 by the '' unity ticket '' of Republican - turned -... - Sarah Louise Palin (nee Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator, and author who served as the ninth Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 election running with the Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Senator John McCain, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major political party and the first Republican woman nominated for the vice presidency. Her book "Going Rogue" has sold more than two million copies. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'sean parnell' exhibits the relationship of 'member of political party'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - military - republican party - union
Answer:
republican party