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Josiah Patkotak
Aullaqsruaq
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Patkotak in November 2023
Mayor of North Slope Borough
Assumed office
October 10, 2023
Preceded by Harry Brower
Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives
Acting
February 4, 2021 – February 11, 2021
Preceded by Bryce Edgmon
Succeeded by Louise Stutes
Member of the Alaska House of Representatives
from the 40th district
In office
January 11, 2021 – October 10, 2023
Preceded by John Lincoln
Succeeded by Thomas Baker
Personal details
Born (1994-03-22) March 22, 1994 (age 30)
Barrow, Alaska, U.S.
Political party Independent

Josiah Aullaqsruaq Patkotak (born March 22, 1994) (last name pronounced Patkutaq in Iñupiaq) is an Iñupiaq politician from Alaska. He represented District 40 as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023. Patkotak defeated another Iñupiaq candidate, Elizabeth Niiqsik Ferguson (D), for the seat by a margin of 200 votes following the retirement of John Lincoln.

Patkotak resigned from the Alaska House in October 2023 after being elected as mayor of North Slope Borough.

Patkotak is registered as an Independent politician. He played the lead role in Andrew Okpeaha MacLean's On the Ice (2011).

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