12 Facts About Kevin Garn

Kevin Stacy Garn was born on January 14,1955 and is an American politician and the former Republican majority leader of the Utah House of Representatives.

Kevin Garn was born in Ogden, Utah and graduated from Layton High School.

Kevin Garn dropped out to focus on his business, KSG Distributing, a music and movie distribution company that he started while still in high school.

In 2004 Kevin Garn, partnered with Layton and Davis County, developed the Davis Conference Center, a 43,000-square-foot multi-use conference center connected to a Hilton Gardens.

Since 2000, Kevin Garn has served as the chairman of the board for The First National Bank of Layton.

Kevin Garn first became involved in politics in 1989 when Franklin Knowlton, a family friend and politician, retired from the Utah House of Representatives.

Knowlton asked Kevin Garn to run for his soon-to-be vacant 16th District's seat.

Kevin Garn served in the Utah House of Representatives from January 1,1991, to June 19,2002, serving as Assistant Majority Whip in 1995 and 1996.

In 2002, Kevin Garn ran for the seat of Utah's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, but lost the Republican primary to Rob Bishop.

At the close of the 2010 legislative session, Kevin Garn admitted to a nude encounter with an underage female, Cheryl Maher, in a hot tub in 1985 when he was 28.

Kevin Garn paid Maher $150,000 for signing a confidentiality agreement in 2002 when she threatened to expose the incident during his failed US congressional campaign.

Kevin Garn, who was married at the time, denied the activities went beyond sitting nude in the hot tub, but called the incident "clearly inappropriate".