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George Q. Cannon

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(January 11, 1827 — April 12, 1901) Cannon was an editor, publisher, chancellor, and politician. George Cannon was born in Liverpool, England and immigrated to the United States in 1842, where he and his family settled in Nauvoo, Illinois. He moved to Utah, then the Mexican Territory, in 1847. While in Utah, Cannon served as a member of the Territorial Council from 1865 to 1866 and 1869 to 1872, and was elected by the Utah constitutional convention in 1872 to present the constitution and memorial to Congress. Cannon was elected as a Republican to the Forty-Third, Forty-Fourth, Forty-Fifth, and Forty-Sixth Congresses from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1881. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000119]

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