Former Utah Rep. Chris Cannon has died. He was 73.
Oct. 20, 1950 — May 8, 2024 • Chris Cannon, a “visionary” businessman turned politician, represented the 3rd District for a dozen years and took interest in emerging technology.
A descendant of a family prominent for generations in Western politics, Cannon graduated with several degrees from Brigham Young University, pursued a successful business career and was an associate solicitor for the Interior Department before defeating Democraturging Clinton’s conviction, Cannon implored Democrats and Republicans alike “to set aside partisanship, politics, polls and personalities, and exchange them for loftier inclinations, those of procedure, policy and precedent.
Cannon and brother Joe, who is 74 and survives him, are also remembered for acquiring faltering Geneva Steel in Provo from U.S. Steel in the late 1980s and operating it until its closure in 2001. Rep. Celeste Maloy, from Utah’s 2rd District, said Cannon served “with integrity for more than a decade.” “He was ahead of his time on where technology was taking the world,” said Lockhart, now a lobbyist. “He often talked about the potential harms as well as the potential good.”
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