Don Young married Lula Fredson in 1963, but her life was cut short on August 1, 2009, when she died at the age of 67. Before her death, they had two kids together. In 2015, he married Anne Garland Walton but the duo has no child together.

Educator and politician Donald Edwin Young represented Alaska’s at-large congressional district in Congress from 1973 until his death on March 18, 2022.

During his 49 years in Congress, he was the longest-serving member of the Republican Party’s House of Representatives.

Dean of the House of Representatives John Conyers retired on December 5, 2017, leaving Rep. Paul Young as the last remaining member of Congress who has been in office since Nixon’s presidency.

First elected mayor of Fort Yukon, Alaska in 1964, Young served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1967 to 1971 and the Alaska Senate from 1971 to 1973 until the special election after the assumed death of U.S. Representative Nick Begich in an aircraft accident.

Don Young Children

Don Young had two children, Dawn Young, and Joni Young with his late wife Lula Fredson whose life was cut short on August 1, 2009, when she died at the age of 67.

Meet Dawn Young and Joni Young

Both Dawn and Joni Young are known to be the kids of Donald Edwin Young, an American politician, and educator, and Lula Fredson, a Gwich’in indigenous woman.

Because their dad kept them hidden from the public, we don’t know anything much about them.