Olene Walker was an American politician who served as the 15th governor of Utah. She was sworn into office on November 5,2003,shortly before her 73rd birthday,as Utah's first female governor. She was also the first female Lieutenant Governor of Utah. She was a member of the Republican Party.
Martha Maria "Mattie" Hughes Cannon was a Utah State Senator,physician,Utah women's rights advocate,suffragist,polygamous wife,and a Welsh-born immigrant to the United States. Her family immigrated to the United States as converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and traveled West to settle in Utah territory with other Saints. She started working at the age of fourteen. At sixteen she enrolled in the University of Deseret,now called the University of Utah,receiving a Bachelors in Chemistry. From there she attended the University of Michigan and received her MD. She became the fourth of six wives in a polygamous marriage to Angus M. Cannon,a prominent Latter-day Saint leader during the anti-polygamy crusade. Cannon exiled herself to Europe so she wouldn't have to testify against her husband. Upon returning to Utah,Cannon worked as a doctor and fought for women's rights. She helped put women enfranchisement into Utah's constitution when it was granted statehood in 1896. On November 3,1896 Cannon became the first female State Senator elected in the United States,defeating her own husband,who was also on the ballot. Martha Hughes Cannon was the author of Utah sanitation laws and was a founder and member of Utah's first State Board of Health.
Brigham Young College was a college and high school in Logan,Utah. It was founded by Brigham Young on 6 August 1877,23 days before his death. He deeded several acres of land to a board of trustees for the development of a college. This was just two years after he founded Brigham Young Academy in Provo in 1875,which became Brigham Young University in 1903.
Herbert Brown Maw was an American politician and educator who was the eighth Governor of Utah. He served as governor from 1941 to 1949. He was a Democrat and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Sheldon Killpack is an American politician from Utah. A member of the Republican Party,he was formerly the senate majority leader of the Utah State Senate,where he represented the state's 21st senate district in Syracuse.
Margaret Dayton is an American politician from Utah. A member of the Republican Party,she served longer in the Utah Legislature than any other woman in Utah history. After serving a decade in the Utah House of Representatives,she unseated an incumbent senator in 2006 and served in that position until June 2018,when she resigned for medical reasons.
Norman Randy Smith is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He lives and maintains chambers in Pocatello,Idaho.
Maud May Babcock was the first female member of the University of Utah's faculty. She taught at the university for 46 years,beginning in 1892. While there she established the University Theater,originated the first college dramatic club in the United States,led the production of the first university stage play,directed over 300 plays and taught. She is also founded the Department of Speech and the Department of Physical Education at the University of Utah.
Adele Morris Cannon Howells was the fourth Primary general president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1943 until her death of rheumatic heart disease. She contributed to The Children's Friend magazine,as well as the fundraising for the Children's Primary Hospital in Salt Lake City,Utah.
RonNell Andersen Jones is the Lee E. Teitelbaum endowed professor of law and Associate Dean of Faculty and Research at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. She is also an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project. Previously,Jones was a law professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Research at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University,where she was twice named Professor of the Year. Jones has previously been a reporter employed by the Deseret News and she specializes in the study of the integration of the press,the law,and the courts.
David Sam is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah.
Ivan Junius Barrett was an American author,professor,and historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Jill Mulvay Derr was a senior research historian in the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2005 to 2011. She previously served as Managing Director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University (2003-2005),where she was also Associate Professor of Church History (1998-2005). Her research and publications have focused on the history of Mormon and Utah women,and she is past president of the Mormon History Association (1998-1999).
Denise Posse-Blanco Lindberg is a former district court judge of the 3rd judicial district of Utah. She is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 2014 was called as a member of the church's general board of the Young Women organization.
Oscar Walter McConkie Jr. was an American politician and attorney in Utah and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was the president of the Utah State Senate from 1965 to 1966,subsequently becoming the chairman of the law firm of Kirton McConkie. He authored several popular books on Latter-day Saint subjects.
Leah Eudora Dunford Widtsoe was the wife of John A. Widtsoe,apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was a prominent figure in home economics education and co-authored several books. She was also a missionary for the church and also served as the leader of all woman's auxiliaries in Europe when her husband was presided as mission president.
The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah were held on Tuesday,November 6,2012 and elected the four U.S. Representatives from the state of Utah,an increase of one seat in reapportionment following the 2010 United States Census. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices,including a quadrennial presidential election and an election to the U.S. Senate. Primary elections were held on June 26,2012.
Ida Maline Smoot Dusenberry was a Utah educator and a leader in the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Jan Graham is an American lawyer from Utah who served as State Attorney General from 1993 to 2001. Other than candidates for Lieutenant Governor running on a ticket with a male candidate,she is the only woman ever elected to statewide office in the state of Utah. She was the most recent Democrat to serve in a statewide elected position in Utah.
Frank Magleby was an American painter and educator. He taught Art at Brigham Young University for 35 years,and he designed murals in the Nauvoo Illinois Temple.
