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Show A.M. Marsden j Files for County Attorney Attorney A. M. (Jim) Marsden has filed for the office of county coun-ty attorney on the Republican ticket. Mr. Marsden opened offices of-fices here in the C S A Building Build-ing the latter part of April of this year. A life-long Republican, Republi-can, he was active in the Young Republican League prior to leaving leav-ing Salt Lake City to practice his profession here and at Parowan. In 1936 he joined the firm of Shay and Shay and practiced law here with that firm for several sev-eral years. The firm was then known as Shay, Marsden & Shay. After the Shay brothers left this community, Mr. Marsden resided here and practiced alone, using the same offices occupied by the firm to which he belonged. He has been practicing law here and at Parowan for the past 19 years. Prior to coming to southern Utah he opened offices in the Continental Conti-nental Bank Building in Salt Lake City with Fred Finlinson and F. Henri Henriod, a present Justice of the Utah Supreme Court. In 19.16 Mr. Marsden was elected elect-ed a delegate lrom Utah to the National Republican Convention at Cleveland, Ohio and in the same year was a delegate to the National Convention of the Young Republican League of America at which time he was I called upon by the supporters of Harold Stassen to second his nomination as President of the Young Republicans belonging to the afore mentioned league. In 1910, in conjunction with Mr. Henriod, he managed the campaign cam-paign of the late Senator Arthur Vandenberg in Utah for the nomination as President of the United States and attended the I National Republican Convention that year in Philadelphia in behalf be-half of his candidacy. Mr. Marsden has served several sev-eral terms as chairman of the voting district where he used to reside in Parowan, and has also served as a member of the county coun-ty and State Central Republican committees. He is a graduate of the college of arts and sciences and the school of law of the University of Utah and is a member of the Utah Bar Association, Associa-tion, the Delta Theta Phi national na-tional law fraternity and the Sigma Phi national collegiate fraternity. He is a son of the late Sen. L. N. Marsden and a brother bro-ther of former Sen. L. Nelson Madsden, a Cedar City businessman. |