Howard C. Nielson

Howard C. Nielson (1985)

Howard Curtis Nielson (born September 12, 1924 in Richfield , Utah - † May 20, 2020 ) was an American politician .

Nielson graduated from high school in 1942 and served in the United States Army Air Forces from 1943 to 1946 . He studied at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City , where he received his Bachelor of Science in 1947 . Then Nielson studied at the University of Oregon in Eugene , where he got his Master of Science in 1949 . 1956 followed a Master of Business Administration at Stanford University and 1958 a Ph.D. at the same university. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as an economist , then from 1951 to 1957 as a consultant and finally from 1957 to 1982 was a professor at Brigham Young University .

In the 1960s Nielson was elected to the Utah House of Representatives and was a member of it from 1967 to 1974, from 1973 to 1974 he was its chairman ( speaker ). From 1976 to 1978, he held the post of Associate Commissioner of Higher Education in Utah. Nielson was elected as a Republican in Congress and represented there from January 3, 1983 to January 3, 1991 the state of Utah in the House of Representatives of the United States .

He did not run for the 1990 congressional elections to serve missionary work for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with his wife, whom he had been married to since 1948 and had seven children . The two were active in Australia and Hungary . In 2003, his wife died and Nielson later married the sister of Republican Congressman Ron Packard .

Web links

• Howard C. Nielson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Howard C. Nielson in nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former Utah Congressman Howard Nielson dies
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