Howard Cannon

Howard Walter Cannon ( born January 26, 1912 in St. George, Utah; † March 5, 2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and from 1959 to 1983 as the representative of Nevada Member of the Senate of the United States.

Biography

Cannon visited the Arizona Teachers College and then went to the University of Arizona to study law. He then worked as a lawyer in Arizona, Nevada and Utah. In 1939 he took over as State Senator in Utah his first political mandate; the following year he was prosecutor in Washington County. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army.

In 1949 he was elected as a litigator of Las Vegas, what should succeed him three more times until he entered the U.S. Senate in 1958. Cannon voted there in 1964 for civil rights (Civil Rights Act ) and was generally attributed to the moderate wing of the Democratic Party. In the elections of 1964, 1970 and 1976 he was again elected to the Senate in each case; until 1982 he was defeated by Republican Chic Hecht.

Since Cannon also chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee was, which dealt with the deregulation of the transport industry, planned in charge of the Transport Workers Union of Teamsters to bribe him. The mobster Joseph Lombardo was indicted for this experiment, but acquitted. However, the attempt to bribe Roy Williams cost the presidency of the union and, although Cannon himself was getting on no attempt to have contributed to his electoral defeat in 1982. Cannon retired then retired from politics.