Category: Nevada

Governor | Republican | RUSSELL, CHARLES HINTON, A Representative from Nevada; born in Lovelock, Pershing County, Nev., December 27, 1903; attended the public schools; was graduated from Elko County High School in 1922 and the University of Nevada at Reno in 1926; taught school in 1926 and 1927; employed in a mine office in Ruth,… Continue reading Charles Russell

Lt. Governor | Republican | LAXALT, PAUL DOMINIQUE, A Senator from Nevada; born in Reno, Washoe County, Nev., August 2, 1922; attended the public schools of Carson City, Nev.; attended Santa Clara (Calif.) University 1940-1943; served in the U.S. army during the Second World War; graduated, University of Denver 1949 and University of Denver Law… Continue reading Paul Laxalt

Senator | Republican | JONES, JOHN PERCIVAL, a Senator from Nevada; born at ‘The Hay,’ Herefordshire, England, January 27, 1829; immigrated the same year to the United States with his parents, who settled in the northern part of Ohio; attended the public schools in Cleveland, Ohio; moved to California and engaged in mining and farming… Continue reading John P. Jones

Senator | Democrat | PITTMAN, KEY, a Senator from Nevada; born in Vicksburg, Warren County, Miss., September 12, 1872; educated by private tutors and at the Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville, Tenn.; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in Seattle, Wash.; joined in the gold rush to Klondike, Alaska, in 1897… Continue reading Key Pittman

Representative | Democrat | REID, HARRY, a Senator and a Representative from Nevada; born in Searchlight, Nev., December 2, 1939; graduated, Southern Utah State College 1959, Utah State University 1961, and George Washington School of Law 1964; member,United States Capitol Police Force 1961-1964; admitted to the Nevada bar in 1963; city attorney, Henderson, Nev., 1964-1966;… Continue reading Harry Reid

Representative | Democrat | SCRUGHAM, JAMES GRAVES, a Representative and a Senator from Nevada; born in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., January 19, 1880; attended the public schools and graduated from the engineering department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington 1906; served in an engineering capacity successively in Cincinnati, Ohio, Chicago, Ill., and San Francisco,… Continue reading James Scrugham

Attorney General | Democrat | BRYAN, RICHARD H, a Senator from Nevada; born in Washington, D.C., July 16, 1937; attended public school in Las Vegas, Nev., graduated from University of Nevada, Reno, 1959; received law degree from University of California (Hastings) College of Law, 1963; United States Army 1959-1960; admitted to the bar and commenced… Continue reading Richard Bryan

Secretary of State | Republican | HELLER, DEAN, a Senator and a Representative from Nevada; born in Castro Valley, Alameda County, Calif., May 10, 1960; graduated from Carson High School, Carson City, Nev.; B.S., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif., 1985; member of the Nevada state assembly 1990-1994; Nevada secretary of state 1995-2007; elected… Continue reading Dean Heller

Treasurer | Democrat | Dan Franks on Wikipedia