Editing Ted Stevens (section)

==Achievements and honors==
[[File:Ted Stevens and Catherine Stevens.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Stevens and his wife Catherine Ann Chandler]]

Stevens was voted Alaskan of the Century in 2000 by the Alaskan of the Year Committee. In the same year, the Alaska Legislature renamed the Anchorage airport, the largest in the state, to the [[Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport]].<ref>[http://www.adn.com/news/politics/fbi/stevens/story/478874.html "Stevens biographical timeline"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918055950/http://www.adn.com/news/politics/fbi/stevens/story/478874.html |date=September 18, 2008 }}, ''Anchorage Daily News'', July 29, 2008.</ref>

The Ted Stevens Foundation is a charity established to "assist in educating and informing the public about the career of Senator Ted Stevens". The chairman is Tim McKeever, a lobbyist who was treasurer of Stevens's 2004 campaign. In May 2006, McKeever said the charity was "nonpartisan and nonpolitical", and that Stevens does not raise money for the foundation, although he has attended some fund-raisers.<ref>Michael Kranish, [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/05/07/limits_urged_on_political_charities/?page=2 "Limits urged on political charities: Watchdogs target funds legislators helped create"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182817/http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/05/07/limits_urged_on_political_charities/?page=2 |date=March 3, 2016 }}, ''Boston Globe'', May 7, 2006.</ref>

November 18, 2003, the senator's 80th birthday, was declared Senator Ted Stevens Appreciation Day by [[Governor of Alaska]] [[Frank Murkowski]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_15_59/ai_n27343453|title=Sinking in the West: Ted Stevens's last hurrah? &#124; National Review &#124; Find Articles at BNET|date=10 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210091316/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_15_59/ai_n27343453 |access-date=10 May 2023|archive-date=December 10, 2008 }}</ref>

When discussing issues that were especially important to him (such as opening up the [[Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]] to oil drilling), Stevens wore a necktie with [[Hulk|The Incredible Hulk]] on it to show his seriousness.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/v-printer/story/7303381p-7215164c.html |title=Senate to vote today on ANWR |publisher=Adn.com |access-date=October 28, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070123182243/http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/v-printer/story/7303381p-7215164c.html |archive-date=January 23, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Marvel Comics]] has sent him free Hulk paraphernalia and has thrown a Hulk party for him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://peninsulaclarion.com/stories/062103/ala_062103ala011001.shtml#.V4azsBFREy8|author=Liz Ruskin|title=Anger management: Stevens meets the Hulk|publisher=Peninsula Clarion|work=[[Anchorage Daily News]]|access-date=July 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160713213523/http://peninsulaclarion.com/stories/062103/ala_062103ala011001.shtml#.V4azsBFREy8|archive-date=July 13, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> On December 21, 2005, Stevens said the vote to block drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge "has been the saddest day of my life".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/22/politics/22cong.html?ex=1188446400&en=6827cfdd479232b2&ei=5070|title=Senate Rejects Bid for Drilling in Arctic Area|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Carl Hulse|date=December 22, 2005|access-date=October 28, 2008|archive-date=March 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309041327/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/22/politics/22cong.html?ex=1188446400&en=6827cfdd479232b2&ei=5070|url-status=live}}</ref>

On December 30, 2006, Stevens delivered a eulogy of [[Gerald R. Ford]] at the 38th President's funeral service.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/30/sitroom.03.html|title=CNN transcripts|access-date=November 7, 2008|work=transcript|agency=[[CNN]]|date=December 30, 2006|archive-date=October 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013095552/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/30/sitroom.03.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On April 13, 2007, Stevens was recognized as the longest-serving (38 years) Republican senator in history. (He served in total forty years and ten days.) Senator [[Daniel Inouye]], a Democrat from Hawaii, referred to Stevens as "The [[Strom Thurmond]] of the Arctic Circle". Stevens held this record until he was overtaken by [[Orrin Hatch]] on January 14, 2017.<ref>[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDOC-110sdoc4/pdf/CDOC-110sdoc4.pdf Tributes to Hon Ted Stevens] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220905134257/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDOC-110sdoc4/pdf/CDOC-110sdoc4.pdf |date=September 5, 2022 }} govinfo.gov</ref>