| LC control no. | n 83163127 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Clyde, George D. |
| Variant(s) | Clyde, George Dewey, 1898-1972 |
| See also | Utah. Governor (1957-1965 : Clyde) |
| Birth date | 1898-07-21 |
| Death date | 1972-04-21 |
| Place of birth | Springville (Utah) |
| Field of activity | Irrigation Civil engineering |
| Affiliation | Utah Agricultural College University of California (1868-1952) |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians Governors College teachers |
| Found in | Rohwer, C. Canal lining manual, 1946: t.p. (George D. Clyde, chief, Div. of Irrigation and Water Conservation) Address presented by Governor George D. Clyde to the 35th Utah State Legislature, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 15, 1963. Utah State Historical Society, via WWW, March 9, 2004 (George Dewey Clyde, b. July 21, 1898, d. April 21, 1972; Governor of Utah 1957-1965 ; Republican) Utah historical quarterly, 2016: volume 84, number 3, page 237 (George Dewey Clyde; irrigation engineer for Utah Agricultural College in Logan, Utah; baccalaurette, Utah Agricultural College, 1921; masters, UC Berkeley) page 238 (dean of the School of Engineering, Utah Agricultural College until 1946; federal service as Chief of Irrigation Investigations for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, 1947-1952; director of the Utah Water and Power Board, 1953; Utah Governor from 1957 to 1965) Our heritage of freedom, 1959 (speech by George Dewey Clyde) An Enduring Legacy, 1985 page 353(George Dewey Clyde was born in Springville, Utah in 1898 and died in April of 1972.) Wikipedia, October 5, 2016 (George Dewey Clyde; George Dewey Clyde (July 21, 1898-April 2, 1972) was an American politician and the tenth Governor of Utah, serving two terms from 1957 until 1965 as a Republican; although Clyde was on the faculty of Utah State University for twenty two years, serving as Dean of the agricultural college's College of Engineering and Technology, he is best known for an eight-year battle with Utah school teachers that eventually resulted in the first statewide teachers strike in United States history during May 1964; he was also involved in the creation of Canyonlands National Park; he was the younger brother of W. W. Clyde, wealthy philanthropist and founder of W.W. Clyde Company and Geneva Rock) |
| Associated language | eng |
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