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Show - file for EsrcsE. "' . I Li.,,, tl I Mr. Larsea - Mr, Wlealey - Two Republican judicial candidates candi-dates got in under the wire Friday, Fri-day, last day for GOP aspirants who must file their candidacies with the secretary of state. O. A. Wiesley, former state Industrial In-dustrial commissioner, came out for the state supreme court, and Salt Lake City Judge Leland G. Larsen will make his bid for the Third judicial district bench. Mr. Wiesley, now a University of Utah law school lecturer, was born 07 years ago in Coal City, I1L, and reared in the Illinois and Pennsylvania coal fields He taught' school in Iowa, . attended at-tended State college and Highland Park college, Des Moines, and then taught In Iowa high schools until serving in World War L After the war, he went Into the lumber and hardware business In Colorado and in Richmond, Cache county, before studying law at the University of Utah. k Mr. Wiesley practiced law in Salt Lake City until 1937. when he was appointed to the public service commission. In 1941, he was named to the Industrial commission com-mission and the state labor relations rela-tions board, where he served untfl March 15, 1947. He is a member of the Argents lodge No. S, F. A A. M, and of the American Legion, in which he served 14 years as department adjutant, ad-jutant, one year as department commander and a year as national executive committeeman. Judge Larsen was appointed to the city bench last March 15 to succeed Judge Clifford L. Aahton, who had resigned. He is a native of Castle Dale, Emery county, but has lived in Salt Lake City for 20 years. He is a graduate of Brigham Young university uni-versity and received his law degree de-gree from the University of Utah in 1933. He has served In party organisation organi-sation offices and twice has sought the district judgeship. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Judge Larsen served in the eastern states mission mis-sion from 1924 to 1928. 1 |