| Show f Jf J I H. H Moyle Moyle i r ri i Utah loses in the death of James H H. H Moyle one of its outstanding outstanding out out- standing citizens and a man who for many years has been intimately inti inti- fately conn connected ted with national political state and L D S church fairs affairs V t C In In rec recent nt yea years Mr Moyle because of adv advanced age age he was 87 e. e When h died i d had id not riot been so active However during a period pe pe- e- e nod of some 50 years starting before the turn of the century and nd continuing until just a few years ago he was a dominant f rl force in the life of this state I Mr Moyle first entered act ve political l life e when he was elected Salt Lake county attorney in 1886 He served lat later r in inc ine e c state legislature was twice Demo Democratic candidate for gov- gov or and ran against Reed Smoot for the U. U S S. S senate in 1914 During Buring all this time he was actively connected with Democratic I party arty activities in Utah and in 1916 became Democratic national committeeman for Utah a post which he held for 16 years J As a result of his prominence in p party affairs he was appointed ap ap- pointed during President Wilsons Wilson's administration to the post of assistant secretary of the treasury and for three years during the llie time he held that position he was acting secretary in the Absence of William Villiam G G. McAdoo With the return to power of the Democratic party in 1933 Mr Moyle became U. U S. S commissioner of customs i t J James H H. Moyle had an unusual life in in many respects ts He was born in Salt Lake City back in the pioneer era in the year 1858 1858 the son of or Mormon Monnon pioneers who came to the city from Nauvoo Ill TIl While hile a lad ho assisted his father who was a stonecutter stonecutter stone stone- cutter in the construction of the Salt Lake L D S temple He had met every president of the United States since Ul Ulysses S S. S Grant rant and knew intimately every president of the L D S church since ince Brigham Young i His was an extremely interesting forceful and influential life Perhaps as much as any other man in the history of Utah l he e exerted a dominant influence on national and state political affairs His death at the age of 87 is an occasion not so much for mourning as for tribute to the outstanding career of an outstanding outstanding out out- standing man f i |
