Name Brian Sullivan | Role American Politician | |
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Died December 8, 2014, Barrow, Alaska, United States | ||
Brian Joseph Sullivan (December 6, 1966 – December 8, 2014) was an American politician and lawyer.
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Washington State Legislature
Sullivan was born in University Place, Washington. From Tacoma, Washington, Sullivan served in the United States Army and as a judge advocate general and a military police officer. He received his bachelor's degree from University of Washington and his law degree from Mississippi College School of Law. He practiced law in Tacoma. He served in the Washington House of Representatives, as a Democrat, from January 1997 until January 2001.
Alaska
Sullivan moved to Alaska in 2001 while on duty with the United States Army. In 2007, Sullivan served on the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska School Board and in 2010, he ran for borough mayor and lost the election. He then moved to Barrow, Alaska in 2012 and was an assistant district attorney. Sullivan was involved with the Republican Party in Alaska and was a district chair.
Death
On December 8, 2014, Sullivan was shot and killed in a private residence in Barrow under circumstances that remain unclear, but which Alaska police are investigating as a homicide. Sullivan was 48 years old. On December 26, 2014, Ronald Fischer was indicted by an Alaska state grand jury, in Nome, Alaska, with first degree murder involving Sullivan who was seeing a woman that Fischer had previously been with involved with.