Eni F.H. Faleomavaega Delegate to U.S. Congress Democrat American Samoa First elected in 1988, he is currently serving in his eighth term representing American Samoa. He graduated from BYU. He served three years in Vietnam. He served as administrative assistant to...
John Doolittle Congressman Republican California First elected in 1994, representing California’s fourth district. The 4th Congressional District stretches from the eastern Sacramento Region to Lake Tahoe on the south and runs up the Sierra Nevada range to the...
Mike Crapo US Senator Republican Idaho Michael Dean “Mike” Crapo First elected to the Senate in 1999. He previously served in Congress as a representative from...
Eldridge Cleaver Leroy Eldridge Cleaver, born in 1935) socio-cultural theorist, and minister. Born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, Eldridge Cleaver moved west to Los Angeles in 1946, where his family lived in an impoverished African American/Chicano neighborhood. In 1953 and...
Delwin Morgan Clawson Mayor of Compton Congressman Eighty-eighth Congress Delwin Morgan Clawson (born January 11,1914 in Thatcher , Arizona) served as mayor of Comptan, California from 1957 until 1963. He was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress,...
Curtis J. Clawson US Senator Republican A member of the 114th United States congress a Representative for Florida’s 19th congressional district. He is the former chief executive of Hayes Lemmerz, a Michigan-based automobile wheel and brakes...
J. Reuben Clark (1891-1961) Undersecretary of State Republican In 1910, he was appointed U.S. State Department Solicitor. In 1928, he was appointed Undersecretary of State. In 1930, he was appointed ambassador to Mexico. In 1933, he retired from public life and...
Jason E. Chaffetz Chaffetz converted to Mormonism in his college years. He attended Brigham Young University on an athletic scholarship, and was the starting placekicker on the BYU football team in 1988 and 1989. He still holds the BYU individual records for most...
Howard W. Cannon 1912-2002 US Senator Democrat Nevada Senator Howard Cannon, who once survived 42 days behind enemy lines after his plane was shot down during World War II Cannon was praised for his efforts to help win passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the...
Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon (1857-1932) State Senator Democrat Utah She was trained as a physician at the University of Michigan. She was a suffragist, and became the first female state senator in American history. In 1886, rather than testify against her husband in...
Berkeley Bunker US Senator Democrat Nevada He would be celebrated as the first Southern Nevadan, and first Nevada Mormon, to hold national office. A member of a pioneer Mormon family, who found himself thrust into a national office after a key official died, returned...
Bay Buchanan Angela “Bay” Buchanan US Treasurer Republican She is sister to Pat Buchanan, former presidential candidate. Their family is Irish-Catholic. She is called “Bay” because her brothers called her the “bay-bay.” In 1981,...
Rob Bishop Congressman Republican Utah On January 7, 2003, Rob Bishop was sworn in as the new Congressman from Utah’s First Congressional District, replacing the retiring Representative Jim...
Ezra Taft Benson (1899-1994) US Secretary of Agriculture In 1952 the newly elected president, Dwight David Eisenhower, requested Ezra to serve as the Secretary of Agriculture. He was reluctant to mix Church and State but President McKay urged him to accept. He served...
Terrel Bell (1921-1996) Secretary of Education Republican He was born in Idaho. He served as a Marine seargeant during World War II, earned a Ph.D. in education from the University of Utah. He taught at the high school level and served as professor at Utah State...
Brooke White Brooke Elizabeth White, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often mistakenly referred to as the “Mormon Church”), is an American indie pop/folk-pop singer-songwriter and actress. She was born 2 June 1983) in Phoenix, Arizona, and...
Amy Whitcomb Amy Whitcomb appeared with fellow Mormon Laina Walker on NBC’s reality show, “The Sing-Off,” in 2012. When Whitcomb got very sick just before the taping of week six of “The Sing-Off,” five of the LDS male singers on the...
Dallon Weekes Dallon Weekes musician and singer-songwriter. Bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and as a songwriter/lyricist for Panic! At the Disco, as well as the lead vocalist, bass guitarist, and singer-songwriter for his independent band, The Brobecks. Dallon...
Don Walser Don Walser is living proof that dreams can come true. Raised on classic country in Lamesa in far West Texas, he started out singing in honky-tonks as a teen, visions of the Grand Ole Opry no doubt in his head. For more than four decades, the devoutly Mormon...
Dan Truman Dan Truman is the keyboard/piano player for the band, Diamond Rio. Dan is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sometimes casually called the Mormon Church. Dan was educated at Brigham Young University and continued classical piano...
Chance Thomas Chance Thomas composes and produces original music for smash hit titles like Lord of the Rings Online, X-Men 3, and King Kong. His projects are major award winners, including Oscar, Emmy, Aurora, Telly and GANG. He produced one of the first live...
Mark ‘Fingermix’ Smith Mark ‘Fingermix’ Smith, born in London, England, has been playing piano since the age of 5. By aged 11 he was already performing his own compositions in school, a year later having a main role in Shakespeare’s...
Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand founded in the mid-1990s in Ogden, UT. The band’s lineup comprises Ryan Shupe (fiddle, guitar, ukulele, mandolin, lead vocals), Roger Archibald (guitar, vocals), Ryan Tilby (bass guitar, string...
