Photos: Byron Mallott as Lt. Gov.

Byron Mallott has announced he will run for governor as a Democrat in 2014.

Alaska Democratic gubernatorial candidate Byron Mallott greets Loren and LaRae Jones at the opening of his new campaign office on Seward Street on Friday. The office is to be open during the legislative session and will host family activities during First Friday events until the elections.

Byron Mallott introduces a video of Dr. Walter Soboleff during the Tináa Art Auction, a fundraiser for the Walter Soboleff Center, at Centennial Hall.

Lt. Gov. candidate Byron Mallott joins early morning sign wavers at the corner of Egan Drive and 10th Street on Monday. Mallott is running with Independent gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker.

Rep. Sam Kito, right, Sen. Dennis Egan, center, and Byron Mallott with his wife, Toni, watch election results at the Tongass Democrats pary at the Silverbow Inn.

Sen. Dennis Egan, left, speaks with lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Byron Mallott at the Silverbow as they wait for election results.

Gov. Bill Walker, left, and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott join hands on stage at the end of inauguration ceremonies at Centennial Hall on Monday, Dec. 1, 2014.

Gov. Bill Walker, right, and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott share a light moment with reporters at the Alaska Capitol.

Gov. Bill Walker, right, signs transitional papers in front of Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, center, and Walker’s Chief of Staff, Jim Whitaker, at the Capitol. Walker and Mallott were sworn into office just hours before.

Gov. Bill Walker, left, his wife, Donna, Toni Mallott and her husband, Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott watch a Alaska National Guard honor guard present the colors during the inauguration ceremony at Centennial Hall on Monday.

Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, right, his wife, Toni, Gov. Bill Walker and his wife, Donna, watch the Mt. St. Elias Dancers during the inauguration ceremony at Centennial Hall on Monday.

Retired Alaska Supreme Court Justice Walter Carpeneti, left, swears Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott into office as Toni Mallott holds a bible during the inaugural cermony at Centennial Hall on Monday.

Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott kisses his wife, Toni, after being sworn into office during the inaugural cermony at Centennial Hall.

Gov. Bill Walker, right, and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott greet members of the media before the start of the Governor’s Open House.

Gov. Bill Walker, right, and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott greet members of the media before the start of the Governor’s Open House.

Gov. Bill Walker and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, left, speak with Fran Ulmer as they wait for the Inaugural Gala to begin at Centennial Hall.

Gov. Bill Walker and his wife, Donna, walk into Centennial Hall’s Sheffield Ballroom with Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, right, for the Inaugural Gala.

Gov. Bill Walker speaks on stage with his wife, Donna, Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, right, and his wife, Toni, and Sen. Dennis Egan during the Inaugural Gala at Centennial Hall.

Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott dances with the Yees Ku Oo Dancers out of Centennial Hall’s Sheffield Ballroom during the Inaugural Gala.

Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, thanks dancers with the Yees Ku Oo Dancers as they leave Centennial Hall’s Sheffield Ballroom during the Inaugural Gala.

Valerie Davidson, Commissioner of the Department of Health and Social Services, left, speaks during a press conference with Gov. Bill Walker, center, and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott in April 2015. Mallott resigned Tuesday over “inappropriate comments” he made. Davidson was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor.

Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, right, and British Columbia Minister of Energy and Mines Bill Bennett hold a press conference about their meetings on tranboundary mining concerns.

Pres. Barack Obama and Gov. Bill Walker are greeted by Walker’s wife, Donna, Anchorage’s Mayor Ethan Berkowitz, left, Sen. Dan Sullivan, center background, and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, right, in front of Air Force One after landing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.

Secretary of State John Kerry listens to Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott’s speech to foreign ministers attending the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage.

Gov. Bill Walker and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott embrace after filing for re-election at the state’s election office in Juneau on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. Former Juneau Mayor and state attorney general Bruce Botelho, right, watched the pair file.

Gov. Bill Walker and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott speak to the press after filing for re-election at the state’s election office in Juneau on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017.

Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott dances to the drumming of the Yees Ku Oo Dance Group during a First Friday event in the Lt. Governor’s Offices in the Capitol on Friday, Oct. 6, 2017. Maps, photographs, documents, and objects related to the 1867 transfer from Russia to the United States supplied by the Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums were on display.

Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott speaks to delegates attending the 83rd Annual Tribal Assembly of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska at Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall on Wednesday, April 18, 2018.