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Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)

Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah

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A guide to finding information in committee timelines, about particular documents, or about particular individuals

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If you are looking for a particular phrase within the written texts considered by this negotiation, you can search for moments when this phrase was introduced for consideration or decided upon. This is often the most helpful starting-point for legal research.

Alternatively, you may wish to search the descriptions of each event within this negotiation. This will not search for phrases under consideration, but rather the text of the various minutes upon which this edition of the negotiation is based.

Committee view

You can view a list of all committee sessions or you can view committee sessions scheduled for the future.

To search the minutes of a particular committee it is easiest to use the committee visualization pages (from here you can further drill down to individual sessions)

The Convention Committee on Credentials Committee on Site and Furniture Committee on Standing Committees Committee on Stenographer Committee on Rules and Methods of Procedure Committee on Federal Relations Committee on the Preamble and Declaration of Rights Legislative Committee Judiciary Committee Executive Committee

Committee on Elections and Right of Suffrage Committee on Apportionment and Boundaries Committee on Education and School Lands Committee on Public Buildings and State Institutions Committee on Water Rights, Irrigation, and Agriculture Committee on Municipal Corporations Committee on Corporations other than Municipal Committee on Public Lands Committee on Revenue, Taxation, and Public Debt Committee on Salaries of Public Officers Committee on Mines and Mining

Committee on Labor and Arbitration Committee on Printing Committee on the Militia Committee on Manufactures and Commerce Committee on Ordinance Committee on Schedule, Future Amendments, Miscellaneous Committee on Accounts and Expenses Committee on Engrossment and Enrollment Committee on Compilation and Arrangement Committee of the Whole Committee on Address

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Document list view

You can discover the complete list of documents considered by the negotiation (and find where they were introduced) on The Convention Document Map.

If you are interested only in the documents as they appeared at the end of the negotiation (with any rejected documents removed), you can use the The Convention Current Document Library.

Individual & Delegation view

You can browse the contributions by individuals or delegations to this negotiation using the relevant visualization

Delegations

Beaver County Delegation Box Elder County Delegation Cache County Delegation Davis County Delegation Emery County Delegation Garfield County Delegation Grand County Delegation Iron County Delegation Juab County Delegation Kane County Delegation Millard County Delegation

Morgan County Delegation Piute County Delegation Rich County Delegation Salt Lake All Other Areas Delegation Salt Lake Precinct 1 Delegation Salt Lake Precinct 2 Delegation Salt Lake Precinct 3 Delegation Salt Lake Precinct 4 Delegation Salt Lake Precinct 5 Delegation San Juan County Delegation Sanpete County Delegation

Sevier County Delegation Summit County Delegation Tooele County Delegation Uintah County Delegation Utah County Delegation Wasatch County Delegation Washington County Delegation Wayne County Delegation Weber County Delegation Elected Officers Other Speakers Delegation

Individuals

Louis Bernhardt Adams Rufus Albern Allen Andrew Smith Anderson John Richard Barnes John Rutledge Bowdle John Sell Boyer Theodore Brandley Herbert Guion Button William Buys Chester Call L.C. Camp George Mousley Cannon George Q. Cannon John Foy Chidester Parley P. Christensen Parley Christiansen Henrietta Clark Thomas H. Clark Jr. R. Clawson Louis Laville Coray Elmer Ellsworth Corfman Charles Crane William Creer George Cunningham Arthur John Cushing William Driver Dennis Clay Eichnor Alma Eldredge George Rhodes Emery Andreas Engberg Abel John Evans David Evans Lorin Farr Clara Shortridge Foltz Samuel Francis William Henry Gibbs Charles Carroll Goodwin James Frederic Green Francis Asbury Hammond Charles Henry Hart Harry Haynes

Robert W. Heyborne Samuel Hood Hill John Daniel Holladay William Howard Henry Hughs Joseph Alonzo Hyde Anthony Woodward Ivins William F. James Bruce Johnson Lycurgus Johnson Joseph Loftus Jolley Thomas Kearns David Keith William Jasper Kerr Frederick John Kiesel Andrew Kimball James Nathaniel Kimball Richard G. Lambert Christen Peter Larsen Lauritz Larsen Hyrum Lemmon Theodore Belden Lewis James Paton Low Peter Lowe William Lowe Anthony Canute Lund Richard Mackintosh Karl G. Maeser Thomas Maloney William H. Maughan Robert McFarland Frank E. McGurrin George Parcust Miller Jacob Moritz Elias Morris James David Murdock John Riggs Murdock Joseph Royal Murdock Aquila Nebeker Jeremiah Day Page Edward Partridge

John David Peters James Christian Peterson Mons Peterson Frank Pierce William B. Preston Alonzo Hazelton Raleigh Charles S. Rapp Charles Comstock Richards Franklyn Snyder Richards Joel Ricks Brigham Henry Roberts Jasper Robertson Joseph Eldredge Robinson Willis Eugene Robison George Ryan William Gibson Sharp Harrison Tuttle Shurtliff John Henry Smith Joseph A. Smith Edward Hunter Snow Hiram Hupp Spencer George B. Squires David Brainerd Stover Charles Nettleton Strevell Charles William Symons James E. Talmage Erasmus W. Tatlock Moses Thatcher Daniel Thompson Ingwald Conrad Thoresen John H. Thorne Joseph Ephraim Thorne Samuel R. Thurman William Grant Van Horne Charles Stetson Varian Noble Warrum Jr. Thomas Watson Heber M. Wells Caleb Walton West Orson Ferguson Whitney Joseph John Williams

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