Norman Livermore was the only member of California governor Ronald Reagan's cabinet to serve during the full eight years of his administration.
37 Facts About Norman Livermore
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Norman Livermore played baseball at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
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An ancestor, Elijah Norman Livermore, built a grist mill and a saw mill on the Androscoggin River in 1791.
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The town of Norman Livermore Falls, Maine, is named after that ancestor.
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Norman Livermore's father, Norman Banks Livermore, was a founding board member of Pacific Gas and Electric.
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Norman Livermore's mother, Caroline Sealy Livermore, was a conservationist in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on protection of the Marin Headlands and Richardson Bay; Mount Livermore on Angel Island is named after her.
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Norman Livermore had four brothers, geologist John Livermore, Putnam Livermore, Robert Livermore, and George Livermore.
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Norman Livermore was born in San Francisco in 1911, and grew up on Russian Hill.
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Norman Livermore climbed the Grand Teton in tennis shoes as a youth.
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Norman Livermore went on to study briefly at the Harvard Business School after graduation.
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Norman Livermore's thesis was called The Economic Significance of California's Wilderness Areas.
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Norman Livermore had been the captain of the Stanford University baseball team.
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In 1929, Norman Livermore rode a motorcycle up and down the Sierra Nevada, searching for a summer job.
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Norman Livermore worked a bit in the summer of 1933, and business picked up for the summer of 1934.
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Norman Livermore compiled a list of 71 pack stations operating in California's wilderness areas.
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Norman Livermore was the largest wilderness outfitter in the Sierra Nevada for a number of years in the 1940s.
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Norman Livermore was commissioned a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II, and participated in the amphibious landings on Sicily, Iwo Jima, Palau and Okinawa.
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Norman Livermore was the outfitter for many of its High Trips and served on the board of directors of the Sierra Club from 1941 to 1949.
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In 1979, Livermore received the Sierra Club's Walter A Starr Award for service to the club by a former director.
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Norman Livermore served as treasurer for the Pacific Lumber Company from 1952 to 1967, when it was committed to sustainable yields, in the years long before the company was acquired by Maxxam, Inc and went bankrupt.
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Norman Livermore, who did not know Ronald Reagan before he was elected Governor of California in 1966, was selected to serve as Reagan's Secretary of Resources.
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Norman Livermore served from 1967 to 1975, and was the only Reagan cabinet official who served during the entire eight years of Reagan's administration.
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Norman Livermore developed a close friendship with Reagan during those years.
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Norman Livermore convened a meeting between Governor Reagan and Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt that resulted in an agreement to preserve the Lake Tahoe basin.
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Norman Livermore worked with Reagan to defeat the proposed Trans-Sierra Highway, which would have divided the longest stretch of wilderness area in the contiguous 48 states and would have bisected the John Muir Trail.
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Norman Livermore organized a wilderness trip by Ronald Reagan beginning on June 27,1972.
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Norman Livermore negotiated the compromise land deal that made it possible for the Reagan administration to endorse the campaign for a Redwoods National Park, leading to its success.
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Norman Livermore convinced Reagan to oppose construction of the Dos Rios Dam on the Eel River in Round Valley, saving the ancestral home of the local Indian tribe.
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Norman Livermore never criticized Reagan to outsiders, and he wrote letters to newspapers extolling his environmental record.
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Norman Livermore was not only a cabinet member but a personal friend.
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Norman Livermore was a good person to have there because he was so pro-wilderness.
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Norman Livermore served on the boards of many organizations, including the National Audubon Society, the Save the Redwoods League, the Thacher School, the Sierra Club, The Peregrine Fund and the Stanford Business School Advisory Council.
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Norman Livermore chaired the Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Commission.
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Norman Livermore was a longtime member of the California Fish and Game Commission, and served as its president from 1982 to 1983.
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Norman Livermore served as Grand Marshal of the Bishop Mule Days.
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Norman Livermore was a longtime advocate of restoring the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park by removing O'Shaughnessy Dam.
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Norman Livermore served on the advisory committee for the grassroots advocacy group "Restore Hetch Hetchy" until his death.