List of Utah State University alumni
Government and politics
Table:
Name

Class year(s)

Degree(s)

Notability

Reference

Norah al-Faiz

1982

MEd

Deputy Minister for Women's Education in Saudi Arabia; first woman appointed to ministerial post in Saudi Arabia

[4]

Ezra Taft Benson

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1953–61)

Dennis Black

B.S. Forest Management
M.S. Natural Resources Economics

Democratic politician, representing the 21st District in the Iowa Senate since 1995

Laurence J. Burton

1956

Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (1963–1971)

[7]

Kathleen Clark

1972

B.S. Political Science

First woman appointed Director of the Bureau of Land Management (2002–07)

[4]

George D. Clyde

1921

B.S.

Governor of Utah

Spencer Cox

B.A.

Lieutenant Governor of Utah

[8]

Elizabeth Dowdeswell

1972

M.S. Behavioral Sciences

29th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (2014–); Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (1993–98); Canada's permanent representative to the World Meteorological Organization; twice elected to its executive council

[4]

John Gardner Ford

1975

B.S.

Son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford; attended USU during his presidency

Steven Ford

Son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford; attended USU during his presidency

Kenny Guinn

1970

Ed.D. Educational Administration

Former Governor of Nevada

[4]

Paula Hawkins

First woman ever elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate without a family connection (1981–87)

William Marion Jardine

1925

PhD

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1925–1929); U.S. Ambassador to Egypt

[9]

Howard Jarvis

Anti-tax activist in California

Wayne Johnson

History

Republican member of both houses, consecutively, of the Wyoming State Legislature, 1993 to 2017

[10]

Lorna Kesterson

Journalism

Newspaper reporter and editor; first woman elected Mayor of Henderson, Nevada (1985–1993)

[11]

Evan Mecham

Governor of Arizona

Michael W. Mosman

1981

B.S.

Federal District Judge

Harry Reid

1961

B.S. Political Science

U.S. Senator, D-NV; current U.S. Senate Majority Leader; youngest Lieutenant Governor in Nevada's history

[4]

Mike Simpson

1972

B.S.

U.S. House of Representatives, R-ID

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Norah bint Abdallah Al Faiz ( Arabic : نورة بنت عبد الله الفايز ) , also spelled Noura Al Fayez , ( born 1956 ) is the first woman to hold a cabinet-level office in Saudi Arabia .
Ezra Taft Benson ( August 4 , 1899 - May 30 , 1994 ) was an American farmer , government official , and religious leader who served as the 15th United States Secretary of Agriculture during both presidential terms of Dwight D. Eisenhower and as the 13th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1985 until his death in 1994 .
Dennis H. Black ( born December 18 , 1939 ) was a Democratic politician , representing the 15th District in the Iowa Senate from 1995 to 2015 . He received his B.S . in Forest Management and M.S . in Natural Resources Economics from Utah State University .
Laurence Junior Burton ( October 30 , 1926 - November 27 , 2002 ) was a U.S. Representative from Utah . Born in Ogden , Utah , Burton graduated from Ogden High School in 1944 . Enlisted in the United States Navy Air Corps and served from January 1945 to July 1946 . He graduated from Weber College at Ogden , in 1948 , from the University of Utah in 1951 , and from Utah State University at Logan in 1956 . Took postgraduate work at Georgetown and George Washington University , Washington , D.C. , in 1957 and 1958 . Public relations director and athletic manager at Weber College from 1948 to 1956 . Regional director for American College Public Relations Association in 1954 and 1955 . He was editor of National Junior College Athletic Association magazine from 1951 to 1961 . Legislative assistant to U.S. Representative Henry Aldous Dixon in 1957 and 1958 . He served as assistant professor of political science at Weber College from 1958 to 1960 . Administrative assistant to Utah Governor George Dewey Clyde from 1960 to 1962 . He served as delegate , Republican National Convention , 1968 .
Kathleen Clarke ( née Daly ; Irish : Caitlín Bean Uí Chléirigh ; 11 April 1878 - 29 September 1972 ) was a founder member of Cumann na mBan , and one of very few privy to the plans of the Easter Rising in 1916 . She was the wife of Tom Clarke and sister of Ned Daly , both of whom were executed for their part in the Rising . She was subsequently a TD and Senator with both Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil , and the first female Lord Mayor of Dublin ( 1939-41 ) .
George Dewey Clyde ( July 21 , 1898 - April 2 , 1972 ) was an American politician and the tenth Governor of Utah , serving two terms from 1957 until 1965 as a Republican . Although Clyde was on the faculty of Utah State University for twenty two years , serving as Dean of the agricultural college 's College of Engineering and Technology , he is best known for an eight-year battle with Utah school teachers that eventually resulted in the first statewide teachers strike in United States history during May 1964 . He was also involved in the creation of Canyonlands National Park . He came from a prominent Latter-day Saint family in Springville , south of Provo , Utah . Clyde was the younger brother of W. W. Clyde , wealthy philanthropist and founder of W.W. Clyde Company and Geneva Rock . Clyde received his bachelor 's degree from Utah State University and a master 's degree from the University of California , Berkeley .
Spencer James Cox ( born July 11 , 1975 ) is an American attorney and politician . A member of the Republican Party , Cox is the eighth lieutenant governor of Utah . Cox was raised in Fairview , Utah . He was appointed to Fairview 's city council , and later acted as the citys mayor . After overseeing rural economic development in Fairview , Cox was elected as a county commissioner for Sanpete County in 2008 , and to the Utah House of Representatives in 2012 . In October 2013 , Governor Gary Herbert selected Cox to replace Greg Bell as lieutenant governor , and he was confirmed unanimously by the Utah Senate . Cox has announced that he is running for governor in 2020 .
The Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Utah was created in 1975 . Eight people have held the position since then . Prior to the creation of the lieutenant governor 's office , the succession to the governorship of Utah was held by the Utah Secretary of State . The office of the secretary of state was abolished by the state legislature in 1976 , and its duties were given to the newly created Office of the Lieutenant Governor . The lieutenant governor as of 2019 was Spencer Cox , having served since 2013 .
Violet Elizabeth Dowdeswell OC OOnt ( née Patton , born November 9 , 1944 ) is the current Lieutenant Governor of Ontario , the 29th since Canadian Confederation . She is the viceregal representative of the Queen in Right of Ontario .
The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario ( /lɛfˈtɛnənt/ , in French : Lieutenant-gouverneur ( if male ) or Lieutenante-gouverneure ( if female ) de l'Ontario ) is the viceregal representative in Ontario of the Canadian monarch , Queen Elizabeth II , who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared equally with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada , as well as the other Commonwealth realms and any subdivisions thereof , and resides predominantly in her oldest realm , the United Kingdom . The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario is appointed in the same manner as the other provincial viceroys in Canada and is similarly tasked with carrying out most of the monarch 's constitutional and ceremonial duties . The current Lieutenant Governor of Ontario is Elizabeth Dowdeswell .
The United Nations ( UN ) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security , develop friendly relations among nations , achieve international cooperation , and be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations . It is the largest , most familiar , most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world . The UN is headquartered on international territory in New York City ; other main offices are in Geneva , Nairobi , Vienna and The Hague . The UN was established after World War II with the aim of preventing future wars , succeeding the ineffective League of Nations . On 25 April 1945 , 50 governments met in San Francisco for a conference and started drafting the UN Charter , which was adopted on 25 June 1945 and took effect on 24 October 1945 , when the UN began operations . Pursuant to the Charter , the organization 's objectives include maintaining international peace and security , protecting human rights , delivering humanitarian aid , promoting sustainable development , and upholding international law . At its founding , the UN had 51 member states ; this number grew to 193 in 2011 , representing the vast majority of the world 's sovereign states . The organization 's mission to preserve world peace was complicated in its early decades by the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union and their respective allies . Its missions have consisted primarily of unarmed military observers and lightly armed troops with primarily monitoring , reporting and confidence-building roles . UN membership grew significantly following widespread decolonization beginning in the 1960s . Since then , 80 former colonies have gained independence , including 11 trust territories that had been monitored by the Trusteeship Council . By the 1970s , the UN 's budget for economic and social development programmes far outstripped its spending on peacekeeping .
The World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 193 Member States and Territories . The President of the World Meteorological Congress , its supreme body , is Gerhard Adrian as a successor of David Grimes . The Organization is headquartered in Geneva , Switzerland . It followed on from the International Meteorological Organization , founded in 1873 , a non-governmental organization . Reforms of status and structure were proposed from the 1930s , culminating in the World Meteorological Convention signed on 11 October 1947 which came into force on 23 March 1950 . It formally became the World Meteorological Organization on 17 March 1951 , and was designated as a specialized agency of the United Nations .
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( born Leslie Lynch King Jr. ; July 14 , 1913 - December 26 , 2006 ) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977 . Before his accession to the presidency , Ford served as the 40th vice president of the United States from December 1973 to August 1974 . Ford is the only person to have served as both vice president and president without being elected to either office by the Electoral College . Born in Omaha , Nebraska , and raised in Grand Rapids , Michigan , Ford attended the University of Michigan and Yale Law School . After the attack on Pearl Harbor , he enlisted in the U.S . Naval Reserve , serving from 1942 to 1946 ; he left as a lieutenant commander . Ford began his political career in 1949 as the U.S. representative from Michigan 's 5th congressional district . He served in this capacity for 25 years , the final nine of them as the House Minority Leader . In December 1973 , two months after the resignation of Spiro Agnew , Ford became the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment by President Richard Nixon . After the subsequent resignation of President Nixon in August 1974 , Ford immediately assumed the presidency . His 895 day-long presidency is the shortest in U.S. history for any president who did not die in office . As president , Ford signed the Helsinki Accords , which marked a move toward détente in the Cold War .
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( born Leslie Lynch King Jr. ; July 14 , 1913 - December 26 , 2006 ) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977 . Before his accession to the presidency , Ford served as the 40th vice president of the United States from December 1973 to August 1974 . Ford is the only person to have served as both vice president and president without being elected to either office by the Electoral College . Born in Omaha , Nebraska , and raised in Grand Rapids , Michigan , Ford attended the University of Michigan and Yale Law School . After the attack on Pearl Harbor , he enlisted in the U.S . Naval Reserve , serving from 1942 to 1946 ; he left as a lieutenant commander . Ford began his political career in 1949 as the U.S. representative from Michigan 's 5th congressional district . He served in this capacity for 25 years , the final nine of them as the House Minority Leader . In December 1973 , two months after the resignation of Spiro Agnew , Ford became the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment by President Richard Nixon . After the subsequent resignation of President Nixon in August 1974 , Ford immediately assumed the presidency . His 895 day-long presidency is the shortest in U.S. history for any president who did not die in office . As president , Ford signed the Helsinki Accords , which marked a move toward détente in the Cold War .
Steven Meigs Ford ( born May 19 , 1956 ) is an American actor , and son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and former First Lady Betty Ford .
Kenneth Carroll Guinn ( August 24 , 1936 - July 22 , 2010 ) , was an American academic administrator , businessman and politician who served as the 27th Governor of Nevada from 1999 to 2007 and interim president of the University of Nevada , Las Vegas ( UNLV ) from 1994 to 1995 . Originally a Democrat , he later joined the Republican Party prior to being elected governor .
The Governor of Nevada is the chief magistrate of the U.S. state of Nevada , the head of the executive department of Nevada 's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state 's military forces . The governor has a duty to enforce state laws , and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Nevada Legislature , to convene the legislature at any time , and , except in cases of treason or impeachment , to grant pardons and reprieves . The Governor serves a four-year term . He or she is limited to two terms , even if they are non-consecutive . If a person ascends to the governorship and serves more than two years of a previous governor 's term , he or she is only eligible to run for one full term . Candidates for Governor must be at least 25 years old , and must have been citizens of Nevada for at least two years , at the time of election . The Lieutenant Governor of Nevada is not elected on the same ticket as the Governor . The current governor is Democrat Steve Sisolak , who took office on January 7 , 2019 .
Paula Fickes Hawkins ( January 24 , 1927 - December 4 , 2009 ) was an American politician from Florida . She is the only woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida . She was the second woman ever elected to the Senate from the South . She was the first woman in the country to be elected to a full Senate term without having a close family member who previously served in major public office .
William Marion Jardine ( January 16 , 1879 - January 17 , 1955 ) was a U.S. administrator and educator . He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1925 to 1929 and as the U.S. Minister to Egypt from 1930 to 1933 .
Howard Arnold Jarvis ( September 22 , 1903 - August 12 , 1986 ) was an American businessman , lobbyist , and politician . He was a tax policy activist responsible for passage of California 's Proposition 13 in 1978 .
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States . With 39.5 million residents across a total area of about 163,696 square miles ( 423,970 km2 ) , California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area . The state capital is Sacramento . The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation 's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions , with 18.7 million and 9.7 million residents respectively . Los Angeles is California 's most populous city , and the country 's second-most populous , after New York City . California also has the nation 's most populous county , Los Angeles County , and its largest county by area , San Bernardino County . The City and County of San Francisco is both the country 's second most densely populated major city after New York City and the fifth most densely populated county , behind only four of the five New York City boroughs . California 's economy , with a gross state product of $ 3.0 trillion , is the largest sub-national economy in the world . If it were a country , California would be the fifth-largest economy in the world ( larger than the United Kingdom , France , or India ) , and the 36th-most populous as of 2017 [ update ] . The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation 's second- and third-largest urban economies ( $ 1.3 trillion and $ 1.0 trillion respectively as of 2018 [ update ] ) , after the New York metropolitan area . The San Francisco Bay Area PSA had the nation 's highest gross domestic product per capita in 2018 ( $ 106,757 ) among large primary statistical areas , and is home to three of the world 's ten largest companies by market capitalization and three of the world 's ten richest people . California culture is considered a global trendsetter in popular culture , communication , information , innovation , environmentalism , economics , politics , and entertainment .
Wayne Harold Johnson ( born May 2 , 1942 in El Paso , Texas ) is an American politician and a former Republican member of the Wyoming Senate . He has represented District 6 since January 2005 but is not a candidate for reelection in 2016 . Johnson served previously from 1993 to 2005 in Wyoming House of Representatives .
Lorna J. Kesterson ( December 30 , 1925 - January 16 , 2012 ) was an American journalist , newspaper editor and politician . She served as the first female mayor of the city of Henderson , Nevada , for two consecutive four-year terms from 1985 to 1993 . She was the first and only woman to be Henderson 's mayor until Debra March was sworn in to office in 2017 . Kesterson was also a longtime reporter and managing editor for the Henderson Home News , a local community newspaper .
Henderson is a city in Clark County , Nevada , United States , about 16 miles ( 26 km ) southeast of Las Vegas . It is the second-largest city in Nevada , after Las Vegas , with an estimated population of 310,390 in 2018 . The city is part of the Las Vegas metropolitan area , which spans the entire Las Vegas Valley . Henderson occupies the southeastern end of the valley , at an elevation of 1,864 feet ( 568 m ) . Henderson is known for its supply of magnesium during World War II . With the decline of magnesium production , the Nevada legislature approved a bill that gave Nevada 's Colorado River Commission the authority to purchase the industrial plants , and Henderson was incorporated in 1953 . Henderson is the location of Lake Las Vegas , and was ranked No . 66 in Best Places to Live by CNN Money . It was also ranked second in Forbes ' list of America 's Safest Cities in 2011 .
Evan Mecham ( /ˈmiːkəm/ MEE-kəm ; May 12 , 1924 - February 21 , 2008 ) was an American businessman and the 17th governor of Arizona , serving from January 5 , 1987 , until his impeachment conviction on April 4 , 1988 . A decorated veteran of World War II , Mecham was a successful automotive dealership owner and occasional newspaper publisher . Periodic runs for political office earned him a reputation as a perennial candidate along with the nickname of The Harold Stassen of Arizona before he was elected governor , under the Republican banner . As governor , Mecham was plagued by controversy almost immediately after his inauguration and became the first U.S. governor to simultaneously face removal from office through impeachment , a scheduled recall election , and a felony indictment . He was the first Arizona governor to be impeached . Mecham served one term as a state senator before beginning a string of unsuccessful runs for public office . His victory during the 1986 election began with a surprise win of the Republican nomination , followed by a split of the Democratic party during the general election , resulting in a three-way race . While Governor , Mecham became known for statements and actions that were widely perceived as insensitive to minorities . Among these actions were the cancellation of the state 's paid Martin Luther King Jr. Day and creating an unpaid King holiday on a Sunday , attributing high divorce rates to working women , and his defense of the word pickaninny in describing African American children . In reaction to these events , a boycott of Arizona was organized . A rift between the Governor and fellow Republicans in the Arizona Legislature developed after the Arizona Republic newspaper made accusations of questionable political appointments and cronyism , accusations that Mecham contended were false . Having served from January 5 , 1987 , to April 4 , 1988 , Mecham was removed from office following conviction in his impeachment trial on charges of obstruction of justice and misuse of government funds - funds that Mecham maintained were private .
Michael Wise Mosman ( born 1956 ) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon , and is simultaneously serving a 2013-2020 term on the FISA Court . The Oregon native previously served as the United States Attorney for the same district .
Harry Mason Reid ( /riːd/ ; born December 2 , 1939 ) is a retired American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1987 to 2017 . He led the Senate 's Democratic Conference from 2005 to 2017 and was the Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015 . Reid began his public career as the city attorney for Henderson , Nevada before winning election to the Nevada Assembly in 1968 . Reid 's former boxing coach , Mike O'Callaghan , chose Reid as his running mate in the 1970 Nevada gubernatorial election , and Reid served as Lieutenant Governor of Nevada from 1971 to 1975 . After being defeated in races for the United States Senate and the position of mayor of Las Vegas , Reid served as chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission from 1977 to 1981 . From 1983 to 1987 , Reid represented Nevada 's 1st district in the United States House of Representatives . Reid won election to the United States Senate in 1986 and served in the Senate from 1987 to 2017 . He served as the Senate Democratic Whip from 1999 to 2005 before succeeding Tom Daschle as Senate Minority Leader . The Democrats won control of the Senate after the 2006 United States Senate elections , and Reid became the Senate Majority Leader in 2007 . He held that position for the last two years of George W. Bush 's presidency and the first six years of Barack Obama 's presidency . As Majority Leader , Reid helped pass major legislation such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , the Dodd-Frank Act , and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 . Republicans took control of the Senate following the 2014 United States Senate elections , and Reid served as Senate Minority Leader from 2015 to his retirement in 2017 .
Michael Keith Simpson ( born September 8 , 1950 ) is an American politician serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives , representing Idaho 's 2nd congressional district . First elected in the 1998 elections , he is a member of the Republican Party and previously served in the Idaho House of Representatives ( 1984-1998 ) . He was the House 's 38th Speaker from 1992 to 1998 .