Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. is a lifelong Utahn. He has helped manage his family’s company, served as president of the Huntsman Cancer Institute, and served on the boards of other large companies. He has also worked in government, as a White House staff assistant, deputy assistant Secretary of Commerce, U.S. ambassador to Singapore, and U.S. trade ambassador. He has worked …

Olene S. Walker was sworn in as Utah’s 15th and first female governor on November 5, 2003. While serving as Utah’s first female lieutenant governor, Walker spearheaded many important initiatives including education programs, budget security measures, healthcare reform, and workforce development. She led the Healthcare Reform Task Force that resulted in establishing the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), ensuring affordable healthcare …

Jay M. Haymond Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Michael O. Leavitt is Utah’s fourteenth governor since statehood was achieved. He was born 11 February 1951 in Cedar City, Iron County. He is the oldest child of Anne and Dixie Leavitt, who are the parents of five other sons. He gained much of his early training on the Leavitt ranch in Loa, …

Michael Christensen Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Norman Bangerter was born in Granger, Utah, on 4 January 1933 to William H. Bangerter, a building contractor and farmer, and Isabelle Bawden Bangerter. He was the tenth of eleven children. In 1953 he married Colleen Monson of Magna, and the couple had six children of their own while also raising a foster son. …

John McCormick Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Scott M. Matheson was born 8 January 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, a son of Scott Milne and Adele Adams Matheson. He soon moved with his family to Parowan, Utah, and, when he was five years old, to Salt Lake City, where his father became Assistant U.S. Attorney for Utah. Matheson graduated from Salt Lake …

John S. McCormick Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Calvin L. Rampton was Utah’s only three-term governor, holding office from 1965 to 1977. A moderate Democrat and a consummate politician, he easily fit into the centrist, conservative mold of Utah politics and was elected each time by overwhelming majorities. With a low-key verbal delivery and an restrained platform appearance, he lacked charisma; …

Miriam B. Murphy Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 George Dewey Clyde was born in Mapleton, Utah, to Elanora Jane Johnson and Hyrum Smith Clyde, a farmer. He graduated from Springville High School, from Utah State Agricultural College with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering, and from the University of California, Berkeley, with master’s degree in civil engineering. In 1919 he married …

Dennis L. Lythgoe Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 In a vigorous defense of his fiscal conservatism as governor of Utah, J. Bracken Lee once advised, “Do it honestly, do the best you know how, and let ’em holler!” That statement accurately portrays not only his forceful personality but also the philosophy of government that made him one of the few genuine …

Miriam B. Murphy Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Herbert Brown Maw was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1893 to Emma Brown and Ephraim Goodman Maw. He later moved with his family to Salt Lake City where he attended LDS High School and the University of Utah Law School. He received a master’s degree and a doctor of law degree from Northwestern …

Miriam B. Murphy Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Henry Hooper Blood was a prominent businessman and seventh governor of the state of Utah. He was born in Kaysville, Utah, to William Hooper Blood, a farmer and city councilman, and Jane Wilkie Hooper. He attended local schools and Brigham Young Academy in Provo. He married Minnie Barnes in 1896 and they had …