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8 unusual facts about Jake Garn


Atlanta Georgia Temple

Special guests at the ground breaking included Georgia Governor George Busbee, Georgia Speaker of the House Tom Murphy, Joe Frank Harris, United States Senators Jake Garn and Paula Hawkins, United States Congressman Elliott Levitas, State Senators Nathan Dean, Joe Thompson, Joe Burton, and Wayne Garner, State Representatives Bill Cummings and Doug Vandiford, and Fulton County Commissioner Michael Lomax.

Chatter Telephone

In 1985, Fisher-Price offered to donate a Chatter Telephone, Rock A Stack, and Activity Center to NASA for Senator Jake Garn to play with while on the STS-51-D space shuttle mission.

Children's Way

Some notable members of the advisory board for Children's Way include 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist Wrestler Rulon Gardner, entertainer and philanthropist Alan Osmond, and former U.S. Senator Jake Garn.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

A few weeks later, Huntsman went on a 10 day business trip to Asia with his friend U.S. Senator Jake Garn, who was chairman of Governor Bangerter's campaign.

RaDene R. Hatfield

While attending USU, Hatfield served an internship in then Republican U.S. Senator Jake Garn's office in Washington, D.C. While working as an intern, Hatfield met her husband, Harlan M. Hatfield, and after a year of courtship and Hatfield finishing up her undergraduate program, they were married in the Salt Lake Temple in June 1983.

Space adaptation syndrome

The most extreme reaction yet recorded was that felt by Senator Jake Garn in 1985.

Voskhod 1

The Soviet space program viewed its crews as passengers more than pilots; the new cosmonauts received only three to four months of training, perhaps the briefest in space history other than that received by the American politicians Jake Garn and Bill Nelson for Space Shuttle flights in the 1980s.

Wayne Owens

He ran an unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign against Jake Garn in 1974, then served as a mission president of the LDS Canada Montreal Mission from 1975 to 1978, after which he returned to Salt Lake City to practice law.


Mike Leavitt

He worked on a number of U.S. Senate campaigns through the 1980s for Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch.


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