13 Facts About Pete Simpson

Pete Simpson polled 46 percent of the vote in his race against the Democrat Michael J Sullivan of Douglas in Converse County in southeastern Wyoming.

Pete Simpson graduated in 1953 from the University of Wyoming in Laramie, where he was a member of the student senate, lettered in basketball with the UW Cowboys, and received a Bachelor of Arts, the first of his three degrees in the field of history.

Pete Simpson returned to University of Wyoming and in 1962 earned his Master of Arts degree, with his thesis, A History of the First Wyoming Legislature.

Pete Simpson would be a member of that body some two decades thereafter.

Pete Simpson is a member of the fraternity Alpha Tau Omega.

Pete Simpson then became dean of instruction at Sheridan College.

Pete Simpson resigned from UW to run for governor but returned in 1987 as vice president for development and alumni affairs.

The Simpson Fund has financed various speakers of different backgrounds and disciplines to UW, including former United States Secretary of State James A Baker, III, former United States Secretary of the Interior James G Watt, US President Gerald R Ford, Jr.

Pete Simpson narrated the hour-long documentary Over Wyoming which was produced by WyomingPBS in 2016.

Pete Simpson is an uncle of former State Representative Colin M Simpson of Cody, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in the Republican primary election held on August 17,2010.

Colin Pete Simpson was Wyoming House Speaker in his last term from 2009 to 2010.

In 2010, he appeared at UW as Prince Hamlet in a theatre production of the Shakespearean play, with Pete Simpson cast as the Ghost of Hamlet's father.

In June 2012, still involved in occasional acting, Simpson played the celebrated frontiersman William F Cody at the opening of the redesigned Cody museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody.