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...
Lorianne Toler’s career has not gone quite the way she planned it. She graduated from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School and while there, she set up a non-profit organization called Constitutional Sources Project (known as ConSource) to digitize...
