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Show MAKING AN IMPRESSION AT THE STATE CAPITAL The. Herald-Republican has the following follow-ing to say of our state senator: A stickler for right procedure in every detail, a member of many important' committees and a hard consistent work- j J er, Senator G. A. Iverson, known among his conferees as "Gus," is making his influence felt in the upper house of the ninth Utah Legislature, although this is his fi.-st session and first term. Senator "Gus" was born November 17 1871, m Christiania, Norway, and came with his parents to Utah four years later, locating in Ephraim. He lived there until he was 18 years of age, and then wenttoProvo, where he graduated from the Brigham Young academy, now university. Possessing a natural legal mind no other pursuit but law appealed ap-pealed to him, and in 1907 he graduated from the Ann Arbor law school. Suspended from his watch chain is a gold charm representing a tori: flyleaf, and this has been the subject of much comment by members of the Senate who were at a loss to understand its meaning. Senator Iverson explained that twenty of them are awarded at Ann Arbor each year and that only two have been awarded to Utahns. The other was owned by the late Philip S. Maycock. By reason of the fact that "Gus" was an associate editor of the Michigan Law Review the charm was presented to him and he is certainly proud of it. For several years he taught school at Manti, where he was married. He was court reporter for the Seventh district from 19U0 to 1005. He has always been a Republican. Senator Iverson is president pres-ident of the Carbon stake of the Mormon church. His home is at Price, where he practices law, and he is also interested inter-ested in several irrigation projects in Eastern Utah. |