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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
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• 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
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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.
  2 KB (262 words) - 15:29, 24 June 2021
• Howard C. Nielson
  ...3 to 1975. He served in the Utah State Senate from January 1997 to the end of December 2000. ...served a part-time mission at the [[Missionary Training Center]] in Provo, Utah.
  2 KB (292 words) - 22:49, 30 July 2021
• Mike Simpson
  ...ily Dental Practice in Blackfoot, Idaho, before entering the U.S. House of Representatives. He has served since 1999 in Idaho’s Second Congressional District. ...and Labor, Health and Human Services and Education. He also serves on the House Budget Committee.
  2 KB (236 words) - 13:32, 11 November 2022
• Ivy Baker Priest
  ...She was a member of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. .... She was unsuccessful, however, but she was elected to be the co-chairman of the Young Republican Organization for eleven western states for a two-year
  3 KB (474 words) - 11:00, 31 August 2021
• Becky Lockhart: Mormon Politician
  ...Lockhart was past Chair of the Legislative District. She was also a member of the Republican State Central Committee. ...16 Gubernatorial Election. However, tragically, she began developing signs of an illness before Thanksgiving that put her into the hospital a few days af
  1 KB (197 words) - 18:42, 12 August 2021
• F. Melvin Hammond
  ...aslind]] and [[Robert K. Dellenbach]]. He also served as general president of the organization. From 2005 to 2008, Hammond served as president of the [[Washington D.C. Temple]]. He also presided over the Bolivia Cochabamb
  2 KB (266 words) - 14:43, 11 July 2022
• Holly Richardson: Mormon Political Blogger
  ...nd he resigned. A map of the district misled him and about 2,500 residents of that district. ...arty chairman Thomas Wright. Governor Herbert nominated Richardson and the Utah Senate confirmed her for her current appointment on the State Records Commi
  2 KB (278 words) - 23:14, 30 August 2021
• Joseph J. Cannon
  ...esus Christ of Latter-day Saints], and a Utah Congressman. He was a member of the Cannon political family. ...served as first assistant to [[George Q. Morris]], general superintendent of the [[Young Men]]’s Mutual Improvement Association. He served there until
  1 KB (186 words) - 17:39, 31 August 2021
• Chris Stewart: Mormon Author
  ...will retire from Congress midway through his sixth term in office serving Utah’s 2nd District, after “an orderly transition can be ensured.” He indi ...acle of Freedom: 7 Tipping Points That Saved the World''. He is the author of the Great and Terrible fiction series.
  2 KB (366 words) - 10:47, 1 June 2023
• Evan McMullin
  ...candidate to back his independent run at Lee — an unprecedented move in Utah politics, perhaps anywhere. McMullin has gone hard after Lee, especially on ...ed and doesn’t even have a girlfriend,’ the ad targeting about 200,000 Utah residents said, among other things.”[https://www.deseret.com/2022/9/2/232
  3 KB (506 words) - 19:38, 11 November 2022
• Bill Orton
  ...entatives from Utah from 1991 to 1997. He ran an unsuccessful campaign for Utah governor in 2000. ...and juris doctorate degrees from [[Brigham Young University]]. At the age of sixteen, he was hired by the Internal Revenue Service and continued to work
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