Babcock has served as precinct officer and district chairman of Alaska 's GOP ( AKGOP ) . He also was state vice chairman and also briefly served as the party 's chairman in the year 2000 . In 2016 , he again ran for this office . During the Alaska Republican Party convention in Fairbanks April 28 – 30 , 2016 , Babcock ran against Fairbanks trial attorney Ann Brown to succeed Peter Goldberg . Babcock won the election and also became a delegate for the National Republican Convention in Cleveland in the summer of 2016
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