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Show The UTAH INDEPENDENT Page 8 Who Mark E. Anderson, an June 2, 1972 Is Mark freedom because of a coalition insurance broker and a former LDS Church mission president, with the government Communists. a Republican candidate for college after returning from Europe. He graduated from BYU with a history degree and then he received an LLB from the University of Utah Law School. Later, in 1957, he joined the Utah State Bar Association. In 1954 Mark married Marilyn Jeanne Felt of Salt Lake City. For five years they lived in various communities in northern Colorado while Mark built and operated several service stations and an insurance office and at is in Utah's second congressional district. Rep. Sherman P. Lloyd, also a Congress Republican, is the incumbent. The two candidates are fighting for delegate votes that will be cast at the GOP state convention July 15 in the Salt Palace. Lloyd served in the state legislature before being elected to Congress. His voting record has been steadily moving to the left. Anderson is an outspoken conservative who does not hesitate to make his stand known on any of the major Anderson? E. Anderson attended the same time served in various church positions including missionary, branch president, and district president. In 1961 while working as a trust officer for the United California Bank in Los Angeles, Mark received a call to preside over the Finnish Mission. In 1964 they lived in Frankfurt, Germany almost a year while Mark was legal counsel to the Mormon Church in Europe, Closely associated with Elder Ezra Taft Benson in the European Mission in Frankfurt that year, the Andersons became familiar and schooled in the proper principles of government, the Constitution, and the evils of collectism and communism. Returning home in 1964, Mark immediately became active in community and state affairs. From 1966 to 1968 he traveled throughout Utah, Idaho and Wyoming setting up chapters of the John Birch Society. As coordinator for the Society he lectured and traveled extensively. It was necessary for Mark to resign his position, although he remained a chapter leader, when he filed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1968. Even though a newcomer to politics and running against a senior senator, he received 52,000 votes out of 130,000 cast, more votes than received by either Democrat in the primary. Since 1968 Mark has been working as an insurance broker in the partnership His Belnap-Anderso- n. partner, Austin Belnap, is a life member of the Million Dollar Round Table and Mark has been a Round Table member all three years. Mark reportedly is a man who understands the principles upon which this nation was founded and which have made it great. He seems committed to those principles and will not be bought or pressured into abandoning principle for the sake of expediency. issues. Mark E. Anderson was born in Pocatello, Idaho in 1926 and was the fourth of seven children. His father, Jared Anderson, served in the state legislature, was chairman of the school board, was a stake president in the LDS Church, founded his own business, and was an active Rotarian. In high school Mark was a member of a national honor society and received the Danforth Award upon graduation. Following high in enlisted the Army school he Air Corps Cadet Program and was honorably discharged at the close of World War II. From 1946 to 1949 Mark was a Mormon missionary in Sweden and Finland. He rapidly learned the Finnish language and served as counselor to the mission president. In Finland in 1947 he observed the near loss of 5 Subscriptions Minimum (Sligl Sibscriptiois $5 pir Y a r ) 0 We need more subscribers! O You and your friends need the Utah Independent! Send at least $5.00 and 5 names. 10 names, you will receive at no extra cost a copy of you send at least $10.00 and If one of these books (your choice) FREE! Clip and mail today FENCE Call tfc ABC Fencing aid Welding mm Dsdcgtq To !h 2459 Major C 6 Independent Myaw or S Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 For All Your Fence Needs Name 1 990 W. 400 South Centerville, Utah Phone 295-100- 6 LORAN HERBERT (City) Send the free book Send book to: (State) (Zip Code) have checked below: Richard Nixon; The Man Behind the Mask Teddy Bare The Naked Capitalist I |