Armando Solorzano, Beehive History It was a cold morning in November of 1912. Thousands of Mexicans, most of them single men, got off the train in Bingham, Utah and were taken to Utah Copper Company, where they began to work that same afternoon. The “Mexican strikebreakers,” as they were known in town, had come to replace miners who were refusing …
Alfred Cumming
Charles S. Peterson Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Alfred Cumming was the second governor of Utah Territory. A native of Augusta, Georgia, where he was born in 1802, Cumming was of a distinguished family and was widely experienced in Western political and business affairs. He had served as mayor of Augusta, as sutler to Zachary Taylor’s army in the Mexican War …
Brigham Young
Newell G. Bringhurst Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Brigham Young was born in 1801 born in Whittingham, Vermont. He was the ninth of eleven children, growing up in an unsettled frontier environment characterized by frequent family moves to various communities throughout upstate New York. Despite the influences of a strict, moralistic family and being exposed to the religious fervor that characterized …
Gary R. Herbert
Gary Richard Herbert is Utah’s seventeenth governor. Prior to becoming governor, he served as Lieutenant Governor under Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. for nearly five years, before taking the Oath of Office on Aug. 11, 2009. Governor Herbert was born in American Fork, Utah, and raised in Orem, Utah. After graduating from Orem High School, Mr. Herbert served a two-year …
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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
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 …
Michael Okerland Leavitt
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, …
Calvin Llewellyn Rampton
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; …
Henry Hooper Blood
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 …
William Spry
Miriam B. Murphy Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 William Spry was born in 1864 in Windsor, England, to tailor Philip Spry and seamstress Sarah Townsend. Spry was educated in common schools and emigrated in 1875 with his family, converts to Mormonism. The family immigrated to Utah in 1875 and Spry served a church mission to the Southern States Mission from 1885 …