Howard C. Nielson

Howard Curtis Nielson ( born September 12, 1924 in Richfield, Utah) is an American politician.

Nielson ended 1942, the High School and served from 1943 to 1946 in the United States Army Air Forces. He studied at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1947, where he received his Bachelor of Science. Then Nielson studied at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where he received his Master of Science in 1949 got. 1956 followed by a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in 1958 at the same university. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as an economist, he worked from 1951 to 1957 as a consultant and was finally from 1957 to 1982 professor at Brigham Young University.

In the 1960s, Nielson was elected to the House of Representatives from Utah and he owned from 1967 to 1974 at from 1973 to 1974 he was the Chairman ( Speaker). From 1976 to 1978 he held the post of Associate Commissioner of Higher Education in Utah. Nielson was elected as a Republican to Congress and represented there, from 3 January 1983 to 3 January 1991 State of Utah House of Representatives of the United States.

One of the midterm elections in 1990, he no longer went to get along with his wife, with whom he had been married since 1948 and had seven children, to do missionary work for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. The two were active here in Australia and Hungary. 2003 his wife died and Nielson later married the sister of Republican Congressman Ron Packard.