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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Calvin L. "Cal" Rampton |
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Salt Lake City, Utah , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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November 06, 1913
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| Died | September 16, 2007
(93 years)
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| Contributor | Some say... |
| Last Modifed | BrentinCO
Feb 01, 2023 09:51am |
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| Info | Calvin Lewellyn Rampton was born November 6, 1913, in Bountiful. He graduated from Davis High School in 1931 and took over the family automobile business when his father died. He sold the business in 1933 and entered the University of Utah. After graduating in 1936, he studied law at George Washington University and the University of Utah. He received his law degree from the U in 1940. Rampton married Lucybeth Cardon on March 10, 1940, and they had four children. Rampton was Davis County Attorney from 1939 to 1941 and Assistant Attorney General for Utah from 1941 to 1942. He served in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II and was Chief of the Senior U.S. Army Claims Commission in Paris when the war ended.
Following the war Rampton returned to Salt Lake City where he practiced law until his election as governor in 1964. As governor, Rampton worked closely with business leaders and pushed industrial development, tourism, development of energy resources, and expansion of the defense industry in Utah. He also established the Little Hoover Commission to recommend ways of restructuring and reorganizing state government, established the Utah Police Training Academy, and created the Governor's Conference on the Arts. While in office he was chairman of the National Governor's Conference, 1974-1975; president of the Council of State Governments, 1974-1975; chairman of the Western Governor's Conference, 1969-1970; and co-chairman of the Four Corners Regional Commission, 1971. He hand-picked the Democratic candidate, Scott M. Matheson, to succeed him, and returned to private law practice. Reflecting on his third term, Rampton recently admitted that one of his few regrets was that he didn't walk away sooner.
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