Wayne Owens
Douglas Wayne Owens ( born 2 May 1937 in Panguitch, Utah, † December 18, 2002 in Tel Aviv, Israel ) was an American politician. Between 1973 and 1975, and between 1987 and 1993, he was the second electoral district of the state of Utah in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Early years
Wayne Owens attended the public schools of his home. In 1955 he graduated from the Panguitch High School. Then he studied from 1955 to 1957 and again from 1960 to 1961 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. After studying law, he also graduated from this university, Owens made his law degree in 1964. He had interrupted 1957-1960 to be active in mission for his Mormon church in France His study time. After qualifying as a lawyer, he worked in this profession.
Political career
Owens was a member of the Democratic Party. In the following years and decades, he worked for U.S. Senators Frank Moss of Utah, Robert F. Kennedy of New York and Edward Kennedy, whose brother, from Massachusetts. 1968 and 1980 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions. During these years he was also in the western states campaign manager of presidential campaigns of Robert and Edward Kennedy later.
1972 Wayne Owens was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he defeated the Republican incumbent Sherman P. Lloyd with 55 % of the vote. He was able to complete a term in Congress between January 1973 and January 3, 1975 3. In the elections of 1974, he opted not to run again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate.
Between 1975 and 1978, Owens was the head of the Mormon mission in Montreal. He then worked as a lawyer in Salt Lake City. In 1984 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Utah; he lost the Republican Norman H. Bangerter. In the congressional elections of 1986 he managed to return to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced David Smith Monson on January 3, 1987. After several re- elections he could be exercising mandate until January 3, 1993. In 1992, he applied no longer a further term. Instead, he ran again for the U.S. Senate. These candidacy remained as the 1974, without success.
Further CV
After retiring from Congress, Owens pulled partially back out of politics. But he continued to monitor the political development. During his time as a politician, Owens has been used for the environment. He also supported the so-called Central Utah Project, which helps supply water to the central region of the state should be improved. He was at that time against the Vietnam War and fought for a peaceful solution in the Middle East. To this end, he founded the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation. Wayne Owens died on 18 December 2002 during a trip to the Middle East in Tel Aviv, where he wanted to carry out further peace talks. He was married to Marlene Wessel, whom he had met in the late 1950s during his missionary work in France.