Ted Stevens: Photos

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Theodore Fulton Stevens arrived in Alaska in 1953 to take a job as an attorney. Known first as "Mr. Alaska" and later as "Uncle Ted," he went on to become a U.S. attorney, statehood advocate, state legislator, and the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history. Stevens, 86, died Monday, Aug. 9 in a plane crash near Dillingham, Alaska, along with four other passengers.