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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Dwight William Jensen |
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Pocatello, Idaho , United States |
| Email | None |
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September 04, 1934
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| Died | February 26, 2006
(71 years)
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| Contributor | Not in Public Domain |
| Last Modifed | None Entered
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| Info | 09/1934 - 02/2006 Dwight William Jensen, 71, kicked the bucket Feb. 26, 2006 following a long illness. He expected to die sooner or later, but always hoped it would be later. Mr. Jensen was born Sept. 4, 1934, in Malad City, Idaho. He graduated from Idaho State College in 1955, in a class that also included his mother, where he majored in speech-drama and twice won the Outstanding Male Student award for his class. Dwight taught English at Emmett, Idaho High School, then went into the U.S. Army, serving in the eastern United States, France and Germany for 27 1/2 months. He left the Army to attend graduate school at Western State College of Colorado, then worked at KPST in Preston, Idaho In 1961, he went to work for "Boise Journal" and KBOI, which then included a television station that has since become KBCI. He was late-night anchor at KBOI Television for years, and disliked the Yankees so much that people sent him funeral wreaths when the Yankees won the World Series. Dwight Jensen was the Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate for Idaho in 1978. He published, among other things, three books, and read the news on all three national radio networks. In 1983 he received a Master´s degree in journalism from Central Missouri State University, where he was named the outstanding graduate student, and in 1988 he earned a Master´s degree in political science from Syracuse University. He taught at Syracuse University from 1982 to 1988 and at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. from 1988 to 2000. He retired Dec. 31, 2000. On April 16, 1955 Dwight Jensen and Claudia Davison eloped and remained happily married for over 50 years. In the summer of 1963 they took an 11-year old boy, Leonard, fishing and wound up adopting him. In 1964 they adopted a newborn baby girl and named her Julia. Both kids did well. Dwight Jensen is survived by his wife, by his son, Leonard from Pocatello, Idaho, and by his daughter Julie Kempson, from Westport, Conn., by his two sisters, Martha Morgan of Payson, Utah and Caryl Williams of Layton, Utah, by six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, by 16 uncles and aunts and by 77 first cousins. His father, Glenden died in 1983, his mother Lola in 1984, and his brother Marvin in 2002. Funeral Services were held March 2, 2006 at St. Paul´s Episcopal Church in Chittenango, N.Y.
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