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Ben Stevens, the former Republican president of the Alaska Senate, died last week after collapsing during a hike with his wife.

The 63-year-old Stevens was hiking on a trail in the Chugach National Forest near Seward, Alaska State Troopers said in a news release Friday.

They said they were called to “a medical emergency with CPR in progress” at 5:57 p.m. Thursday.

Stevens held a number of prominent positions in Alaskan politics and business over the years.

He came from a political legacy as his father was Ted Stevens, a Republican who represented Alaska in the U.S. Senate from December 1968 to January 2009. The elder Stevens died in a plane crash in 2010.

Ben Stevens was appointed to the Alaska state Senate in 2001 by then-Gov. Tony Knowles and served as its president in 2005 and 2006, KTUU-TV reported.

In 2006, Stevens and five other state lawmakers had their offices raided by the FBI in connection with a corruption investigation, according to the Alaska Beacon.

The senator was never charged with any crime in connection with that investigation, but he decided not to run for office again.

In 2018, he took a position as chief of staff for Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy.

Last year, Stevens moved on to ConocoPhillips Alaska, where he was vice president of external affairs and transportation, according to KTUU

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