Correspondence, 1902-1987

File — Box: 61, Folder: 1-5

Identifier: IV

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Sub-Series: Mark W. Cannon was the youngest child of Joseph J. Cannon and Ramona Wilcox Cannon. Mark spent two years at a junior college in California from 1944-1946. He then transferred to the University of Utah and became student body president in 1948. Marked served an LDS mission in Argentina from 1949-1951; this box has numerous letters from his mission. From 1952-1955, Mark attended Harvard University and obtained a Master's of Public Administration and a PhD in Political Economy and Government. Mark's PhD thesis was titled, "The Mormon Issue in Congress, 1872-1882: Drawing on the Experience of Territorial Delegate, George Q. Cannon." After completing school, Mark was an administrative assistant to Congressman Henry Aldous Dixon from 1956-1960. From 1961-1963, Mark was the legislative assistant to Senator Wallace F. Bennet. He married Ruth Dixon in 1962 and they had three children, Lucile, Mark, and Kristen. During this time, Mark was also the chairman of Brigham Young University's Political Science Department. In 1964, Mark and his entire family moved Caracas, Venezuela where he was the director of the Venezuelan Urban Development Project. After returning from Venezuela, Mark became the director of the Institute of Public Administration in New York City. In 1972, Mark became the first administrative assistant ever to be appointed to serve with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was the first non-lawyer to be admitted to the American Bar Association.

Dates

1902-1987

Conditions Governing Access

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