1. Milward Lee Simpson was an American politician who served as a US Senator and as the 23rd Governor of Wyoming, the first born in the state.
20 Facts About Milward Simpson
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In June 1917, at age 19, Milward Simpson graduated from the Tome School for Boys in Port Deposit, Maryland.
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Milward Simpson was in the same fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega, as Glenn Parker, whom he appointed to the Wyoming Supreme Court when he became Governor in 1955.
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In 1924, while studying at Harvard, Milward Simpson took over his father's law practice.
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Milward Simpson was admitted to the Wyoming Bar Association in 1926 and practiced law in Cody until 1955 when he became governor.
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Milward Simpson served as a Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives for one two-year term, from 1926 to 1927.
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Milward Simpson was a member of the board of trustees of the University of Wyoming in 1939 and president of the board from 1943 to 1954.
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Milward Simpson was a member of the National Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions and served as president of the body from 1952 to 1953.
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Milward Simpson defeated the Democrat William Jack, 56,275 to 55,163.
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Milward Simpson won a special election on November 6,1962, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Republican Senator-elect Edwin Keith Thomson in the term ending January 3,1967; he was not a candidate for Senate reelection in 1966 but was succeeded by outgoing Governor Clifford Hansen of Jackson.
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Milward Simpson lived in Cody until his death in 1993 at the age of 95.
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Milward Simpson voted in favor of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Milward Simpson has been chronicled as the first to simultaneously serve as captain of three intercollegiate sports at the university.
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In 1996, Milward Simpson was inducted into the University of Wyoming Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Around 1921 and 1924, Milward Simpson played semi-professional baseball in Red Lodge, Montana, and Cody.
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On June 29,1929, Milward Simpson married Lorna Helen Kooi in Sheridan, Wyoming.
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Alan Milward Simpson was the Senate Republican Whip during the early 1990s.
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Milward Simpson's grandson, Colin M Simpson, is a former member of the Wyoming House from Cody, who lost a Republican primary for governor in 2010 to Matt Mead.
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Milward Simpson died on June 11,1993 at a nursing home in Cody, Wyoming from Parkinson's disease at the age of 95.
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Milward Simpson was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Cody, Wyoming.