Utah Republican Party

Utah Republican Party

Senate leader	Wayne Niederhauser
House leader	Greg Hughes
Founded	1854
Headquarters	117 E. South Temple Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
Ideology	Conservatism Fiscal conservatism Social conservatism
National affiliation	Republican Party
Colors	Red
Seats in the Upper House	24 / 29
Seats in the Lower House	63 / 75
Website
www.utgop.org

The Utah Republican Party works to nominate and support the election of Republican candidates in partisan races for public office in the state of Utah. Promote the principles of the State Party Platform and abide by the elections laws, constitution, and bylaws of the Party.

History

The state of Utah politics was reorganized after the 1890 Manifesto led by Wilford Woodruff. The 1890 Manifesto officially ended the traditionally Mormon practice of Polygamy. Many prominent polygamist Mormons were imprisoned, punished and harassed since the 1890 Manifesto prohibited plural marriage. This action granted the Utah Territory statehood in 1896 on the condition that polygamy was banned in the state constitution. The Republican Frank J. Cannon was the first delegate elected to congress by the state of Utah in 1894.

The state of Utah rapidly gained overwhelming support for the Republican Party. Although the Republican Party had played a major part in abolishing polygamy, the Republican U.S. Senator Reed Smoot rose to political power. Smoot led a political alliance of Mormons and non-Mormons that created a strong Republican party in many parts of the state.^[1]

The Republican Party is currently dominant in Utah politics: no Democrat has won statewide office since 1996, when Jan Graham was elected attorney general;^[2] and when Mia Love replaced Jim Matheson in congress in 2014, Utah's congressional delegation became all-Republican.^[3]^[4]

Constitution

The Members of the Utah Republican Party are grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty. The members desire the perpetuation of the free government principles and the blessings of liberty. The Party is governed by the Utah State Constitution, Party By-laws, and Robert's Rules of Order Current Edition.^[5]

Current elected officials

The Utah Republican Party controls all five statewide offices and holds a supermajority in the Utah House of Representatives and the Utah State Senate. Republicans also hold both of the state's U.S. Senate seats and all four of the state's U.S. House seats.

Members of Congress

U.S. Senate

U.S. House of Representatives

Statewide offices

Governor: Gary Richard Herbert
Lieutenant Governor/Secretary of State: Spencer Cox
Attorney General: Sean Reyes
State Treasurer: David Damschen
State Auditor: John Dougall

State Legislature

President of the Senate: Wayne L. Niederhauser
- Senate Majority Leader: Ralph Okerlund
Speaker of the House: Greg Hughes
- House Majority Leader: Brad R. Wilson

State party organization

Office	Office-holder
Chair	Rob Anderson
Vice Chair	Joni Crane
Secretary	Lisa Shepherd
Treasurer	Abram Young
Executive Director	BJ Griffin

In off election years the Utah Republican Party holds organizing conventions where state delegate elect a chair, vice-chair, secretary and treasurer. The state party officers are elected for a term of two (2) years.

Central Committee

The State Central Committee has representatives from every county in Utah. Along with the automatic members, each county chair and vice-chair, counties are allocated representative based on the number of voting republicans in that county. These representatives are voted in by each county's central committee which in turn is made up of precinct chairs and vice chairs elected at neighborhood caucuses.

State Party Caucuses

Party Caucuses are held every two years in Utah.

County party organizations

Each of Utah's 29 counties has a party organization, which operates within that county and sends delegates to the State Central Committee.

County Party	Website
Cache	http://cachegop.com/
Davis	http://www.davisgop.org/
Morgan	http://www.morganutahgop.org/
Salt Lake	http://www.slcogop.com
Sanpete	http://www.sanpetecountyrepublicans.com
Summit	http://www.summitcountygop.org
Utah	http://ucrp.org
Weber	http://www.wcrgop.org

References

↑ Utah Republican Party. "Utah Republican Party". Utgop.org. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
↑ "Money-burning Dems pamper neglected reds," The Salt Lake Tribune, June 12, 2006
↑ "Jim Matheson Dropout Shocks Mia Love's Campaign," US News and World Report, December 17, 2013
↑ "Republican Mia Love wins Utah House race," Associated Press, November 5, 2014
↑ Utah Republican Party. "Utah Republican Party". Utgop.org. Retrieved 13 December 2014.

External links

United States Republican Party

Chairpersons
of the RNC

Presidential tickets

Parties by state
and territory

State

Territory

Conventions
(list)

Affiliated
organizations

Fundraising groups	National Republican Congressional Committee National Republican Senatorial Committee Republican Conference of the United States House of Representatives Republican Conference of the United States Senate Republican Governors Association
Sectional groups	College Republicans Chairmen Congressional Hispanic Conference International Democrat Union Log Cabin Republicans Republican Jewish Coalition Republican National Hispanic Assembly Republicans Abroad Teen Age Republicans Young Republicans
Factional groups	Republican Main Street Partnership Republican Majority for Choice Republican Liberty Caucus Republican National Coalition for Life Republican Study Committee ConservAmerica Liberty Caucus Freedom Caucus Ripon Society The Wish List

Republican Party portal

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.