Eileen MacLean
Eileen MacLean | |
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| Member of the Alaska House of Representatives | |
| In office 1989 – January 12, 1996 | |
Eileen Panigeo MacLean (June 12, 1949 – April 24, 1996) was an American politician and educator.
Background
MacLean was born in Utqiagvik, Alaska Territory, and was an Iñupiaq. She graduated from Mount Edgecumbe High School, in Sitka, Alaska, in 1968. MacLean received her bachelor's degree in elementary education from University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1975 and her master's degree in education from University of Copenhagen in 1983. She was a junior high school teacher and was involved in the real estate business. MacLean served on the North Slope Borough Assembly and on the North Slope School Board. She was a Democrat. MacLean served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1989 until her resignation on January 12, 1996 due to health problems. Before that she was on the executive board of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference and the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. MacLean was also an executive director of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission.[1] MacLean died at her home in Barrow, Alaska from a long illness.[2][3][4]
Family
Her daughter is Tara Sweeney, who is an activist and businesswoman.[5]
Notes
- ^ Stern, Pamela (2009). The A to Z of the Inuit. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. pp. 100, 101. ISBN 978-0-8108-6822-9.
- ^ Alaska State Legislature-Eileen MacLean
- ^ University of Alaska-UA Journey-Eileen Panigeo MacLean
- ^ 'Eileen MacLean, Former Legislator, Dies at 46,' Daily Sitka Sentinel (Sitka Alaska), April 25, 1996, pg. 3
- ^ Nomination of Tara MacLean Sweeney
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