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7 unusual facts about Mike Leavitt


Gary Lee Price

In November 2001, he received the "Governor's Mansion Artist Award," from Governor Michael Leavitt of Utah, for his support of the arts.

Matthew B. Durrant

In 1997, three years before taking a seat on the Utah Supreme Court’s bench, Governor Michael O. Leavitt appointed Durrant to Utah’s 3rd Judicial District bench.

Mike Leavitt

While Governor, Leavitt and Roy Romer of Colorado were the two key founders of Western Governors University in 1997, one of the first exclusively online schools in the nation.

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

Remembrances of the Mountain Meadows massacre

Both the descendants and LDS Church were opposed to this plan, so on September 8 Utah Governor Michael Leavitt ordered that all the remains, including the skulls, were to be reinterred during the family service in two days.

San Rafael Swell

In 2002, then-governor Mike Leavitt of Utah proposed the creation of a San Rafael Swell National Monument.

Ted Stewart

From 1998 until becoming a federal judge in 1999, Stewart served as a chief of staff to then-Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt.


Korean Central Presbyterian Church

About 400 Asian-Americans attended this meeting with Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt present to discuss the Medicare D prescription drug program.


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