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Senate Years of Service: 1959-1983 Party: Democrat
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CANNON, Howard Walter, a Senator from Nevada; born in St. George, Washington County, Utah,
January 26, 1912; graduated from Arizona State Teachers College in 1933, and
University of Arizona Law School in 1937; admitted to the bar in Arizona in
1937, Utah in 1938, and Nevada in 1946; reference attorney, Utah State senate
in 1939; elected county attorney of Washington County, Utah, in 1940; during
the Second World War served in the United States Army in 1941 and the United
States Army Air Corps 1942-1946, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel;
served in the Air Force Reserve and retired as a major general; elected city
attorney of Las Vegas, Nev., in 1949 and served for four consecutive terms;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1958; reelected in 1964,
1970 and 1976 and served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1983; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1982; chairman, Joint Committee on Inaugural
Arrangements (Ninety-second Congress), Select Committee on Standards and
Conduct (Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth Congresses), Committee on Rules and
Administration (Ninety-third through Ninety-fifth Congresses), Joint Committee
on Inaugural Ceremonies (Ninety-fourth Congress), Joint Committee on Library
(Ninety-fifth Congress), Joint Committee on Printing (Ninety-fifth Congress),
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Ninety-fifth and
Ninety-sixth Congresses); died in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 5, 2002;
interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
BibliographyScribner Encyclopedia of American Lives;
Gilbertson, John. Plane Politics: Lyndon Johnson, Howard Cannon, and Nevadas
1964 Senatorial Election.
Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 46 (Winter 2003): 257-85;
Titus, A. Costandina. Howard Cannon, the Senate and Civil-Rights Legislation,
1959-1968.
Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 33 (Winter 1990): 13-29;
Venetti, Michael.
Senator Howard Canon of Nevada: A Biography. Reno: University
of Nevada Press, 2008.
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