The Lieutenant Governor take over.
They get another governor.
The lieutenant governor will step in.
After Alaska Governor Sarah Palin resigns (expected sometime in July '09), power will be transferred to Lt. Governor Sean Parnell, who will be sworn in during the upcoming governor's picnic in Fairbanks.
The Leiutenant Governor
Each state has a constitution that specifies what happens. Usually the lt. Governor takes over and there is a special election, or the state house representatives appoint a pro tem Governor.
When a vacancy occurs in the office of the lieutenant governor of Texas, the Senate will elect one of its members as the acting President of the Senate until the next state-wide office election.
Sean Parnell is the Governor of Alaska.
She was the Governor of Alaska.
When a Senator resigns and there is no pending election at the time, the Governor of the state picks a replacement
Sean Parnell, the current Governor is the 12th Governor of the State of Alaska.
The first Governor of the State of Alaska was William A. Egan. The first Governor of Alaska Territory was Walter Eli Clark. The first Governor of the District of Alaska was John Henry Kinkead.
Egan was the first an fourth governor of Alaska and the only Alaska Governor to date that was born in Alaska.