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Show Monson Elected ! Head of Group Dr. E. E. Monson, secretary of state, was elected unanimously to the office of president of the Na- tional Association of Secretaries of State at the annual convention held at Savannah, Georgia, Saturday, Satur-day, June 15. This is the first j time that this honor has come to a secretary of state west of the Mississippi river. Dr. Monson was secretary of the association in 1938, and elected vice-president at the 1939 convention He extended extend-ed an invitation to the convention to hold its 1941 meeting in Salt Lake City. If the invitation is accepted ac-cepted a delegation of leaders in public life from all 48 states will come to Salt Lake City. The National Association of Secretaries of State held their fifteenth annual convention in Salt Lake City in August, 1931, when Milton H. Welling was Utah secretary of state. 'Dr. E. E. Monson, newly elected president of the organization, has been Utah secretary of state for nearly four years, and prior to his election to that office served in the lower house of the Utah legislature from 1932 to 1936. He is a native of Richmond, Cache county, but has resided in Salt Lake City for a number of years, having been engaged in the profession pro-fession of dentistry. M |