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• Gunn McKay
  .... He was a member of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. ...rve gas storage facility, and securing funding for the further development of Capitol Reef National Park, Glen Canyon, Arches, and Zion National Park.
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• Spencer Cox
  ...t the time that Governor Herbert selected him to step into the office. The Utah Senate unanimously confirmed him. ...nth governor of the State of Utah in the November election with 63 percent of the vote.
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• Algie Eggertsen Ballif
  ...daughters’ education equaled that of her sons’, despite the inequality of the era. Their home was often filled with “artists, lecturers, school adm In 1916, [[George H. Brimhall]], president of [[Brigham Young University|Brigham Young Academy]], asked Algie to serve a
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• N. Boyd Tenney
  ...e 22, 1915, in Stanley, Arizona, on the San Carlos Indian Reservation, one of ten children, including brother [[Lyman Tenney]]. He grew up in rural Arizo ...es in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 10, 1939, and they became the parents of eight children.
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• Jack H. Goaslind
  ...venty]] from October 6, 1985, until August 15, 1987, and in the Presidency of the Seventy from August 15, 1995, until August 15, 1998. ...o 1998. In 1995, he was awarded the Silver Buffalo Award by the Boy Scouts of America for his work to integrate [[Scouting]] into the Church’s Young Me
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• James V. Hansen
  ...presentatives from 1973 to 1980; he was Speaker of the House the last year of his term. Hansen ran for governor of the state of Utah in 2004 but was defeated at the Republican convention by [[Jon Huntsman, Jr
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• Shawn Bradley: Mormon Athlete
  ...March 22, 1972, in Landstuhl, West Germany, and was raised in Castle Dale, Utah. During his high school years, he was named All-State three times and earne ...ttp://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], of which he is a member. After his mission to Australia, he decided to enter t
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• William Spry
  ...f [[Utah]], serving from January 4, 1909, to January 1, 1917. He was Chair of the National Governors Association from August 24, 1915, to December 14, 19 ...ilson to reconsider the impending execution of Joe Hill (who was convicted of murder in a controversial trial) and allowed the execution to take place on
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• Ronald T. Halverson
  ...ea Authority, [[Area Seventy]], [[Regional Representative]], and president of the Norway Oslo Mission (1990–1993). He also served a full-time mission t ...den, Utah. When he was ten years old, his father bought a farm in northern Utah and Halverson spent his youth helping with the animals.
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• Ron Packard
  ...job almost requires a marriage. It’s like being married to the House of Representatives, and I want to go back and be a father, grandfather, and husband again.”[ ...he temple: "I learned that when you pray to the Lord and you get some kind of an answer and confirmation, you better believe it. The confirmation I recei
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• John R. Murdock
  ...passengers “down and back” from Missouri to Utah. He built a carriage house in Beaver and the structure was relocated in 2000 to the [[This Is the Plac ...m 1861 to 1863. In 1864 he went to Beaver where he was the first president of the Beaver Stake (1869–1891), was ordained a patriarch, and essentially r
  2 KB (335 words) - 16:48, 31 August 2021
• Janette C. Hales Beckham
  ...hrist of Latter-day Saints]. She is also remembered for her service in the Utah State Legislature from 1988 to 1991. ...[Norman Bangerter]] appointed Hales to fill a vacancy in the Utah House of Representatives. In the following November election, she was voted into the slot and served
  2 KB (334 words) - 22:10, 9 March 2022
• Bob Garff
  ...he 2002 Olympics. He represented the organizing committee on the first leg of the international Olympic torch relay after the flame lit in Olympia, Greec ...t Rice-Eccles Stadium. He founded the Keys to Success program to encourage Utah students to focus on education.
  2 KB (339 words) - 19:06, 12 August 2021
• John M. Bernhisel
  ...ouncil of Fifty]] of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. ...o [[Joseph Smith]]. He lived with the Smiths for a time and delivered some of [[Emma Hale Smith|Emma’s]] children.
  2 KB (327 words) - 10:30, 31 January 2023
• Sarah Farr Smith
  ...was one of the Prophet [[Joseph Smith]]’s closest friends. Within a year of their arrival in the Salt Lake Valley, they were called to colonize an area ...ayor of Ogden and president of the Weber Stake, so Sarah’s home was full of many children and visitors, including Native Americans who pitched their te
  2 KB (320 words) - 21:01, 24 June 2021
• Ezra T. Benson
  ...]], would later serve in that quorum and would eventually become president of the Church. ...tish Isles, the Sandwich Islands, and Scandinavia, as well as later in the Utah Territory. He also worked on the [[Nauvoo Temple]] and served in several le
  2 KB (349 words) - 11:05, 31 March 2023
• Enid Greene
  ...the third woman and first Republican woman to be elected to Congress from Utah. ...n Salt Lake City and earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah. She then obtained her law degree from [[Brigham Young University]].
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• Elizabeth Anne Wells Cannon
  ...ent of the [[Daughters of Utah Pioneers]]. She served in the Utah House of Representatives from 1913 to 1915, and in 1921. ...ther published and edited. In 1883 she wrote ''The History and Objectives of the Relief Society'' and co-authored the ''Relief Society Handbook''.
  2 KB (244 words) - 19:43, 15 February 2022
• Merrill Cook
  ...y sought for political office in the state. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 1997 to January 2001. ...the Salt Lake County Commission. He lost each time. He ran for governor of Utah twice, the first in 1988 and the second in 1992; he placed third and second
  2 KB (385 words) - 17:54, 13 September 2021
• Naomi M. Shumway
  ...ttp://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], of which she was a member. ...nal Silver Antelope Award at the National Court of Honor by the Boy Scouts of America in New Orleans.
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