Donald Edwin Young was an American politician and educator who served as the U.S. representative for Alaska’s at-large congressional district from 1973 until he died in 2022.
Young was first sworn into Congress after winning a special election on March 6, 1973.
He also served on the House Natural Resources Committee in the current Congress.
Donald Edwin Young was married to a flight Nurse Anne Garland Walton until his death.
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Donald Edwin Young was married to the former Lula Fredson Young.
The Gwich’in Athabascan from Fort Yukon, Lula was a daily fixture at the Alaska Republican’s Washington, D.C., office, where she worked with him and greeted guests.
Lula Fredson and Don Young met when she worked as a bookkeeper in Fort Yukon.
The couple was married for more than 46 years and were still until Lula’s death at Great Falls, Va., home on August 1, 2009.
Don Young and his wife Lula were members of the Episcopal Church.
The pair had two daughters, Dawn Young and Joni Young, and were grandparents to 14 grandchildren.
Aside from the names of Don Young’s children no other information about them was made public.