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1992 Utah Attorney General Election
The 1992 Utah Attorney General election was held on November 3, 1992, in order to elect the Attorney General of Utah. Democratic nominee Jan Graham defeated Republican nominee Scott Burns and Libertarian nominee John M. Coombs. General election On election day, 3 November 1992, Democratic nominee Jan Graham won the election by a margin of 5,353 votes against her foremost opponent Republican nominee Scott Burns, thereby retaining Democratic control over the office of Attorney General and thus becoming the first woman elected to this office. Graham was sworn in as the 18th Attorney General of Utah on 3 January 1993. Results See also * 1992 Utah gubernatorial election The 1992 Utah gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1992. Republican nominee Michael Leavitt won the three-way election. Results References 1992 Gubernatorial Utah Utah is a landlocked state in the Mou ... References {{1992 United States elections ...
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Jan Graham
Janet Ann Graham Hunt ( Crump; July 19, 1949 – January 29, 2024), best-known as Jan Graham, was 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 is the last Democrat to hold statewide office in Utah. Early life, education, and legal career Janet Ann Crump was born on July 19, 1949, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. She graduated from South High in 1967, and enrolled at Brigham Young University. While at BYU, Crump successfully bypassed BYU’s prohibition on women wearing jeans to its Testing Center by wearing no pants at all, which gave the impression she was wearing a hidden skirt. She transferred to the University of Utah, and then to Clark University in Massachusetts, and graduated in 1971 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. Crump returned to Salt Lake and enrol ...
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Paul Van Dam
R. Paul Van Dam (born October 15, 1937) is an American politician and attorney from the state of Utah. He attended East High School and graduated in 1955. Paul and his wife Mary Bailey are fifth-generation Utahns. He served as Attorney General of Utah from 1989 to 1993, as a Democrat. He attended the University of Utah and is a former Salt Lake County district attorney. Under District Attorney Van Dam's leadership, Salt Lake County DA's office was the first jurisdiction to prosecute serial killer Ted Bundy, subsequently getting a conviction. Prior to his serving as DA, there were separate organizations for the county attorney and the district attorney. As DA, he oversaw a huge reorganization to combine the two. In 1988, he ran for Utah Attorney General believing the office was under-funded and too small for the job. He was able to get the legislature to increase the budget, which enabled him to hire qualified attorneys and update the computer system making case handling more ex ...
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Utah Attorney General
The Attorney General of Utah is an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the state government of Utah. The attorney general is the chief legal officer and legal adviser in the state. The office is elected, with a term of four years. The current office holder is Derek Brown, who was inaugurated on January 8, 2025. List of attorneys general Deseret (1849) * Daniel H. Wells (1849) Utah Territory (1850–1874) * Hosea Stout (1850–?) * James Ferguson * Albert Carrington (1856–?) * Zerubbabel Snow (1869–1874) State of Utah (1896–present) References External links Utah Attorney Generalofficial website Utah Attorney Generalarticles at ''ABA Journal'' at FindLaw Utah Codeat Law.Justia.com U.S. Supreme Court Opinions - "Cases with title containing: State of Utah"at FindLaw Utah State BarUtah Attorney General Sean Reyes profileat National Association of Attorneys General Press releasesat Utah Attorney General {{Utah statewide elected officials Atto ...
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is a Centre-left politics, center-left political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Major party, major parties of the U.S., it was founded in 1828, making it the world's oldest active political party. Its main rival since the 1850s has been the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, and the two have since dominated American politics. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828 from remnants of the Democratic-Republican Party. Senator Martin Van Buren played the central role in building the coalition of state organizations which formed the new party as a vehicle to help elect Andrew Jackson as president that year. It initially supported Jacksonian democracy, agrarianism, and Manifest destiny, geographical expansionism, while opposing Bank War, a national bank and high Tariff, tariffs. Democrats won six of the eight presidential elections from 1828 to 1856, losing twice to the Whig Party (United States) ...
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a Right-wing politics, right-wing political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Two-party system, two major parties, it emerged as the main rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the United States, slavery into U.S. territories. It rapidly gained support in the Northern United States, North, drawing in former Whig Party (United States), Whigs and Free Soil Party, Free Soilers. Abraham Lincoln's 1860 United States presidential election, election in 1860 led to the secession of Southern states and the outbreak of the American Civil War. Under Lincoln and a Republican-controlled Congress, the party led efforts to preserve th ...
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Libertarian Party (United States)
The Libertarian Party (LP) is a Political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. It promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, Laissez-faire capitalism, ''laissez-faire'' capitalism, and Limited government, limiting the size and scope of government. The world's first explicitly libertarian party, it was conceived in August 1971 at meetings in the home of David Nolan (libertarian), David F. Nolan in Westminster, Colorado, and was officially formed on December 11, 1971, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs. The organizers of the party drew inspiration from the works and ideas of the prominent Austrian school economist Murray Rothbard. The founding of the party was prompted in part due to concerns about the Presidency of Richard Nixon, Nixon administration's wage and price controls, the Vietnam War, Conscription in the United States#Vietnam War, conscription, and the introduction of fiat money. The party generally supports "personal libert ...
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1992 Utah Gubernatorial Election
The 1992 Utah gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1992. Republican nominee Michael Leavitt won the three-way election. Results References 1992 Gubernatorial Utah Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
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1992 Utah Elections
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Utah Attorney General Elections
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, and Nevada to the west. In comparison to all the U.S. states and territories, Utah, with a population of just over three million, is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 13th largest by area, the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 30th most populous, and the List of U.S. states by population density, 11th least densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two regions: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which includes the state capital, Salt Lake City, and is home to roughly two-thirds of the population; and Washington County, Utah, Washington County in the southwest, which has approximately 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in ...
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November 1992 In The United States
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