Information: - Mark Peter Begich (born March 30, 1962) is an American politician who was a United States Senator from Alaska from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was Mayor of Anchorage from 2003 to 2009. - 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. - Matthew W. '' Matt '' Claman ( born 1959 ) is an American politician from Alaska . A Democrat , he serves in the Alaska House of Representatives . He was elected to the House in 2014 . He is also a former member of the Anchorage Assembly . In this position , he served as acting mayor of Anchorage , Alaska for the first half of 2009 . He succeeded Mark Begich , who was elected to represent Alaska in the U.S. Senate in the 2008 general election . Claman served on the Anchorage Assembly since 2007 and became its chair in 2008 , enabling him to assume the post of mayor as provided by the city charter . Claman was a candidate for mayor in the April 7 , 2009 election . He lost a re-election bid in 2010 to Ernie Hall , a businessman who was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002 . - 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). After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'matt claman' exhibits the relationship of 'member of political party'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - democratic party - military - union
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democratic party