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  Burton, Laurence J.
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NameLaurence J. Burton
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Ogden, Utah , United States
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Born October 30, 1926
DiedNovember 27, 2002 (76 years)
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InfoLaurence Junior Burton

Representative from Utah; born in Ogden, Weber County, Utah, October 30, 1926; graduated from Ogden High School in 1944; enlisted in the United States Navy Air Corps and served from January 1945 to July 1946; graduated from Weber College at Ogden, Utah, in 1948, from the University of Utah at Salt Lake City in 1951, and from Utah State University at Logan in 1956; took postgraduate work at Georgetown and George Washington Universities, Washington, D.C., in 1957 and 1958; public relations director and athletic manager at Weber College, 1948-1956; regional director for American College Public Relations Association in 1954 and 1955; editor of National Junior College Athletic Association magazine, 1951-1961; legislative assistant to U.S. Representative Henry Aldous Dixon in 1957 and 1958; assistant professor of political science at Weber College, 1958-1960; administrative assistant to Utah Governor George Dewey Clyde, 1960-1962; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1968; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelection in 1970, but was an unsuccessful nominee in 1970 to the United States Senate;

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  11/03/1970 UT US Senate Lost 42.48% (-13.68%)
  11/05/1968 UT District 1 Won 68.12% (+36.24%)
  09/10/1968 UT District 1 - R Primary Won 72.25% (+44.50%)
  11/08/1966 UT District 1 Won 66.50% (+32.99%)
  11/03/1964 UT District 1 Won 55.97% (+11.95%)
  11/06/1962 UT District 1 Won 50.88% (+1.76%)
  09/11/1962 UT District 1 - R Primary Won 63.72% (+27.44%)
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