Uintah Basin Standard | 1962-07-05 | Page 3 | A. Pratt Kessler Files for State Attorney

GO I HOT A. current Attorney General for seeks GOP nomination as 1002 candidate for same A. Pratt Kessler files for state Utah's Attorney A. Pratt this week announced his candidacy to succeed himself as the State's Chief legal a has been ney General since Prior to assuming his present served for eight years as United States Attorney for Utah during the of President D. In addition to his on both the state and federal levels of Kesler also represented Salt Lake City for a number of years as city prosecutor and assistant city In the private practice of he has been a member of the law firms of Kesler and and Cal-lister and both of Salt Lake He is a past president of both the State and Salt Lake County Bar and Is currently a of House of Delegates of the American Bar He is also chairman of the Utah Commission on Uniform State In Republican party Kesler has a record of long and active He served two terms as Republican state has been a member of the Republican National Committee and has held numerous other positions on a state and county Kesler is a native of Salt Lake He received both his undergraduate and law training at the University of He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day having served as a missionary in France for that He is mar- i ried to the former Ellen They have two children and reside at 1875 Yale