Harding died in October 2006 after suffering a heart attack at the age of 77. He was a Mormon and a Democrat who served in Congress from 1961 to 1965.
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"Ronald Reagan truly admired the Latter-day Saints. His administration included more members of the
Church than any other American president, ever. Three of us, David
Fischer,
Gregory Newell and I, served on his personal White House staff. Richard Wirthlin was his chief strategist. Ted Bell served as Secretary of Education, Angela Buchanan was Treasurer, Rex Lee was Solicitor General. His White House included Roger Porter, Brent Scowcroft, Richard Beal, Blake Parish, Jon Huntsman Jr., Dodie Borup and Rocky Kuonen, and there were many other Latter-day Saints throughout his Administration. President Thomas S. Monson served on a Presidential Commission on Volunteerism. Others were ambassadors. LDS senators and representatives were held in special regard, and the Tabernacle Choir was his special inaugural guest." -Stephen M. Studdert, Special Assistant to President Reagan |
Are Mormon Politicians Directed By Church Leadership?
 | Bob Bennett US Senator Republican Utah | First elected to the US Senate in 1992, he is currently serving his third term as senator from Utah. He currently serves as chief deputy whip. In this capacity, he helps set the senate agenda and schedule and serves as a key advisor on the senate leadership team. He comes up for re-election in 2010. Source: Senate.gov | Senate.gov |
 | 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 University. President Reagan appointed him secretary of education. He established the National Commission on Excellence in Education in 1981 and issued the 1983 report, A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. | |
 | Ezra Taft Benson (1899-1994) US Secretary of Agriculture Republican | 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 with honor and integrity for the entire eight years of Eisenhower's two terms. Although there was a firestorm of criticism as he sought to dismantle the bloated bureaucracy that had overseen agriculture during the war, no one ever questioned Secretary Benson's integrity. | |
 | 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 Hansen. He is currently serving his second term. He comes up for re-election again in Nov 2006. Source: 13 Legislators re-elected by Jason Swensen, Church News, 13 Nov 2004, Page 7 | Congressman Bishops Website |
 Photo: Clare Boothe Lucy Policy Institute | 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, President Reagan appointed her to serve as Treasurer of the United States. At the age of 32, she was the youngest person to hold that office since its establishment in 1775. (Her signature can still be found on older greenbacks.) She joined the Church in 1982. In 1998, she appeared on television as co-host of CNBC's political show Equal Time. She now leads an educational foundation dedicated to advancing traditional conservative issues. Source: Angela Bay Buchanan to Speak at Cal Poly, 06 Apr 2004 |
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 | Frazier Bullock chief operating officer Salt Lake Organizing Committee | "There is not even any discussion about not having the games,'' Salt Lake Organizing Committee chief operating officer Frazier Bullock said. | |
 | 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 to the city he loved and made himself and his family proud. | The First 100 persons who shaped Southern Nevad |
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Chris Cannon Congressman Republican Utah |
First elected in 1996, defeating three-term Representative Bill Orton. He was one of only three Republicans defeating Democrat incumbents in the 1996 election. He is currently serving his fifth term representing Utah's third district. He comes up for re-election again in Nov 2006. Source: 13 Legislators re-elected by Jason Swensen, Church News, 13 Nov 2004, Page 7 |
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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 federal court (for polygamy), she fled, with her baby, into hiding in England. | |
 | Howard W. Cannon 1912-2002 | Former Democratic 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 Panama Canal Treaty. | |
 | 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 accepted the calling as counselor to Presidents Heber J. Grant. He later served as a counselor to President George Albert Smith and President David O. McKay. | |
| 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, . He was reelected to the seven succeeding Congresses and served until his retirement at the end of his last term on December 31, 1978 . He died in Downey California on May 5,1992 . wikipedia.org From Time Magazine Jun 21, 1963: Last week, saxophone-playing Del Clawson won easily, with 33,086 votes to 21,951 for Porter, the runner-up. A Mormon who says he feels "emotionally close to George Romney but philosophically closer to Barry Goldwater," Clawson for several years has mailed paperback copies of Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative as Christmas cards. In his first term as mayor of Compton, he eliminated bonded indebtedness and reduced city tax rates by one-third, was promptly re-elected in 1961. | ||
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Eldridge Cleaver Ran for President on the Peace and Freedom Movement |
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 1957 Cleaver was convicted for narcotics possession and assault and
spent almost thirteen years in the California penitentiary system. By the late 70s, Cleaver had experimented with a number of religious groups–most notably Sun Moon’s. Not surprisingly, his views of Mormonism were strongly colored (no pun intended) by the negative views of the Church within the Black Power movement. Cleaver’s first “Mormon contact,” interestingly, was with Carl Loeber, an activist with the Peace and Freedom party that sponsered Cleaver’s presidential run who had joined the Church in 1970 as he renunciated the Black Power movement. Cleaver met with Elder Paul H. Dunn (then administrator for California) and would be later introduced by Loeber to Cleon Skousen during a Know Your Religion class in San Jose. Cleaver even traveled to Salt Lake City to meet with President Ezra Taft Benson. Cleaver was baptized in December 1983 mormonmatters.org
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 | Mike Crapo US Senator Republican Idaho | First elected to the Senate in 1999. He previously served in Congress as a representative from Idaho. Source: 13 Legislators re-elected by Jason Swensen, Church News, 13 Nov 2004, Page 7 | Senate.gov |
 | John Doolittle Congressman Republican California | First elected in 1994, he is currently serving in his sixth term, 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 high desert of Modoc County on the Oregon border in the north. For the 108th Congress, Doolittle was elected as the Secretary of the House Republican Conference, the sixth highest ranking elected position in the House Leadership. He comes up for re-election again in Nov 2006. Source: 13 Legislators re-elected by Jason Swensen, Church News, 13 Nov 2004, Page 7 | |
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Larry EchoHawk Head of the US Bureau of Indian Affairs | Larry EchoHawk is an attorney and legal scholar. EchoHawk joined the administration of U.S. President He became the head of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. He served as Attorney General of Idaho from 1991 to 1995, the first Native American elected to a constitutional statewide office. He served as Attorney General of Idaho from 1991 to 1995, the first Native American elected to a constitutional statewide office. | |
 | 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 Chief A. U. Fuimaono (American Samoa's first elected non-voting Congressional delegate from 1973 to 1975). He is married and has five children. Source: Info Please | House.gov
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 Photo: House of Representatives | Jeff Flake Congressman Republican Arizona | First elected in 2000, he is currently serving his third term, representing the Arizona’s sixth district. This district includes parts of Mesa and Chandler and all of Gilbert, Queen Creek, and Apache Junction. He comes up for re-election again in Nov 2006. Source: 13 Legislators re-elected by Jason Swensen, Church News, 13 Nov 2004, Page 7 | |
 www.jsc.nasa.gov | Jake Garn Senator Utah | Garn was chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and served on three subcommittees: Housing and Urban Affairs, Financial Institutions, and International Finance and Monetary Policy. He also was a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and served as Chairman of the HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee. He served on four other Appropriations subcommittees: Energy and Water Resources, Defense, Military Construction, and Interior. Garn served as a member of the Republican leadership from 1979 to 1984 as Secretary of the Republican Conference. Garn spent time as an astronaut astronaut. At the conclusion of the mission, Garn had traveled over 2.5 million miles in 108 Earth orbits, logging over 167 hours in space as the world's first space tourist . The space sickness he experienced during the journey was so severe that NASA named the "Garn scale" of space sickness after him, and he was quickly dubbed "Barfin' Jake" by his Senate colleagues. | |
 | Jim Gibbons Congressman Republican Nevada | First elected in 1998, he is currently serving his fourth term representing Nevada's second district. He comes up for re-election again in Nov 2006. He served in the USAF attaining the rank of colonel. His service included tours in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf and the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross for his extraordinary achievement while participating as an RF-4C Flight Leader in the Gulf War. On this mission, he flew an unarmed aircraft on a vital reconnaissance mission to acquire politically sensitive imagery of enemy targets in Kuwait. His resume also includes work as a commercial airline pilot and a state representative. | |
 starbulletin.com | Muliufi Francis "Mufi" Hannemann | Muliufi Francis "Mufi" Hannemann is a career politician and currently the Mayor of Honolulu, he served as a special assistant in Washington, D.C. with the Department of the Interior, where he was selected for a White House fellowship in the Reagan administration under then Vice President George H. W. Bush. He also served as chairman of the Honolulu City Council. He is the first person of Samoan descent and the second Mormon, member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to serve as Mayor of Honolulu (Neal S. Blaisdell was the first). Wikipedia | |
 Photo: Deseret News | Jim Hansen Congressman Republican Utah | First elected to Congress in 1980, he served 11 terms representing Utah's first district before he retired from Congress in 2002. He failed in a bid for the republican nomination for Utah governor in 2004. | |
 | Orrin Hatch US Senator Republican Utah | First elected to the US Senate in 1976, he is currently serving in his fifth term for Utah. He comes up for re-election in 2006. Source: 13 Legislators re-elected by Jason Swensen, Church News, 13 Nov 2004, Page 7 Senate.gov | =200 alt="Copyright © 2006 Deseret Book" |
 | Ralph Harding US Congressman Democrat Idaho | Harding, born in 1929 at Malad City, was educated at the University of Utah, Brigham Young University and Idaho State University. He served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War and was a commissioned lieutenant at the time of his discharge. Married for 52 years, he was father of five children. An avid golfer and sports fan, Harding was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. At the time of his death he was an ordinance worker in the Idaho Falls Temple and a diligent home teacher. Idaho Mountain Explorer | |
 | Paula Hawkins US Senator Republican Florida | First woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida. As a member of the Senate Children’s Caucus, she was effective in raising public awareness of child abuse and was instrumental in passing the Missing Children’s Act of 1982, which established a national clearinghouse for information about missing children and resulted in the locating of more 2,000 children by 1983.
Hawkins
opposed the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion-on-demand. She refused to join the Congressional Woman's Caucus because she thought child care, pension equity and other matters were "family issues" and not just of concern to women. "I did not like the Equal Rights Amendment," she said. "I predicted that it would bring about the downfall of the father's responsibility to support the family." she dies in 2009 at the age of 82 | |
 | Wally Herger Congressman Republican California | First elected in 1986, he is currently serving his tenth term, representing California’s second district. He comes up for re-election again in Nov 2006. Source: 13 Legislators re-elected by Jason Swensen, Church News, 13 Nov 2004, Page 7 | House.gov |
 Photo: Politics Watch | Dr. Grant Hill, M.D. member of parliment conservative Alberta, Canada | Interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. He is on record as a supporter of natural medicine and an opponent of homosexual "marriage." Grant Hill's political highlight was as official interim leader of the opposition. This is the highest position that a member of the church has held in Canada. He did not run for re-election in 2004. | Conservative Party of Canada
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Paul HinmanCanadian politician | Paul Hinman (born 1959 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and currently the sole legislative representative and leader of the Alberta Alliance Party. Paul was elected to his first term as an MLA representing the constituency of Cardston-Taber-Warner, on November 22, 2004. He is the first and so far only person to win an election under the Alberta Alliance Party banner, and the second MLA in Alliance history. He spent two years in the Philippines doing missionary work for the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he learned to speak their native language, Tagalog. | |
 | Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Governor | Jon Huntsman Jr. was named Saturday May 16 2009 by President Barack Obama to be U.S. ambassador to China. "I wasn't looking for a new job in life, but a call from the president changed that," Huntsman said, standing beside Obama at a White House press conference. Huntsman speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese learned for an LDS Church mission to Taiwan. He and his wife, Mary Kaye, adopted a daughter from China. Deseret News |
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