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 Utah History Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jake Garn was born in Richfield, Utah, on 12 October 1932.
Garn served in the U.S. Navy on active duty from June 1956 to January 1960, and he was designated a naval aviator in 1957.
Garn entered politics and was elected to the Salt Lake City Commission in 1967, and served for four years.
www.media.utah.edu /UHE/g/GARN,JAKE.html   (508 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Sen. Jake Garn
Jake Garn, now 74, the former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, serves on numerous national and international corporate boards, including the Morgan Stanley financial firm, a Japanese bank, Nu Skin and Franklin Covey.
Garn also serves on 13 volunteer boards, for groups ranging from the Primary Children's Medical Center Foundation to the Kidney Foundation.
Garn adds that he remains active in politics, but as a campaign adviser and helper to other Republicans.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,650196716,00.html   (424 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Big things from little Jake Garn
Garn supposedly took his first flight before he was even born — his mother was four months pregnant.
Garn still acts like a kid with a schoolboy crush on Kathleen, and both encourage and foster a loving memory of Hazel in the family and in their relationship.
Garn actually saw more of his family after that, because he was in Utah two to three weekends a month, plus during congressional recesses.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595066547,00.html   (3288 words)

  
 Garn
BIRHPLACE AND DATE: Jake Garn was born in Richfield, Utah, on 12 October 1932.
Garn entered politics and was elected to the Salt Lake City Commission in 1967.
Garn was reelected to the Senate in 1980, and again to a third term in 1986.
www.astronautix.com /astros/garn.htm   (490 words)

  
 Jake Garn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Senator Garn married the late Hazel Rhae Thompson in 1957.
Jake was remarried in 1977 to Kathleen Brewerton, who had a son, Brook, from a previous marriage.
Today, Senator Garn is has 13 children (including in-laws), and 17 grandchildren ranging from ages from 21-newborn.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jake_Garn   (623 words)

  
 Biography of Jake Garn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Prior to his election to the Senate in 1974, Senator Garn served on the Salt Lake City Commission for 4 years and was elected Mayor in 1971.
Senator Garn was elected to a second term in the Senate in November 1980.
Senator Garn is the first member of congress to fly in space.
biography-1.qardinalinfo.com /g/Garn_Jake.html   (364 words)

  
 Hill Aerospace Museum - Utah Aviation Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Senator Garn was born in Richfield, Utah, and attended local public schools.
Garn served as a Salt Lake City Commissioner and Mayor, and was instrumental in the development and implementation of the Salt Lake City International Airport Master Plan.
Garn served three terms in the United States Senate, working tirelessly for a strong national defense.
www.hill.af.mil /museum/history/egarn.htm   (149 words)

  
 Interview with Sen. Jake Garn: Shortsighted Congress Blocks U.S. Vision of Space Frontiers
Garn: No, I don't think it was political, because I don't think that, with the budget situation right now, the deficit and all the problems, and the Presidential election year, politically you would do it right now.
Garn: The original plan was for the Shuttle to be retired, at the latest, by 2003, 2005—when I was still in the Senate.
Garn: I don't mean to be argumentative with you, but with the budget situation the way it is right now, if he tried the approach of big expenditures, he'd be laughed right out of the White House.
www.larouchepub.com /other/interviews/2004/3109jake_garn.html   (4127 words)

  
 Jake Garn - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Jake Garn - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Garn, Jake, born in 1932, American politician, United States senator (1974-1992), and the first U.S. official to fly in space while holding elected...
Beckley, Jake (1867-1918), American baseball player, who was nicknamed Old Eagle Eye for his ability to read pitches.
encarta.msn.com /Jake_Garn.html   (99 words)

  
 Astronaut Bio: Senator E.J. "Jake" Garn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Senator Garn is a graduate of the University of Utah.
In November 1984, Senator Garn was invited by NASA to fly as a payload specialist on the space shuttle Discovery Mission STS-51-D. During the seven-day flight, he performed various medical tests.
E.J. "Jake" Garn, a U.S. Senator from Utah, was the first public official to fly aboard the Space Shuttle.
vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov /er/seh/garn.htm   (285 words)

  
 Utah Insurance Department - Industry Resources
Jake has 20 years of experience in state and local tax, regulatory compliance issues and internal audit.
As the son of Senator Jake Garn, Jake has seen the value and importance of being involved in ones community and government.
So, when the opportunity came to apply for the position of chief examiner, Jake considered it to be an chance to become more involved in government and the broadening of his horizons.
www.insurance.utah.gov /Newsletter9-06.html   (1706 words)

  
 Jake Garn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jake Garn was a private pilot, then a Navy pilot on active duty for four years.
Senator Garn piloted the several different aircrafts, flying reconnaissance missions over the Sea of Japan.
Garn was elected to the US Senate from Utah in 1974.
www.newinformation.com /Speakers/Garn-Jake.htm   (86 words)

  
 kutv.com - Jake Garn, Boy Scout   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Garn has been a Navy pilot, a Utah Air National Guard pilot and Brigadier General, a Salt Lake City mayor and a U.S. Senator.
And now Jake Garn was going to give him an Eagle Scout badge.
Garn admitted he felt inadequate because he never became an Eagle Scout.
kutv.com /peterrosen/local_blogentry_242130603.html   (267 words)

  
 TIME.com: Jake Skywalker -- Apr. 22, 1985 -- Page 1
As chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees NASA's budget, Jake Garn once joked that if he did not get to fly on the space shuttle, he would not appropriate "another cent" to the agency.
Garn is also in superb physical condition; he carries a muscular 170 lbs.
Garn retorts, with some logic, that he is not a private citizen.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,966871,00.html   (789 words)

  
 Headwaters Incorporated
Senator Garn has had a long and distinguished career in national politics.
Senator Garn was re-elected to the Senate in 1980 and again in 1986.
Garn retired from the Senate in 1992 to pursue business and consulting activities.
www.headwaters.com /pressrelease/details.asp?ID=74   (322 words)

  
 Space Politics: Jake Garn and the "crusade for Mars"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City has a brief article about former senator and astronaut Jake Garn's role in promoting the Vision for Space Exploration.
Garn is heading the relatively little-known organization Global Space Travelers (which the article reveals was founded several years ago by Buzz Aldrin, but has done virtually nothing in public to date) that recently joined the Space Exploration Alliance.
The article notes that Garn himself won't be participating in the Moon-Mars Blitz next week because of speaking engagements in Utah.
www.spacepolitics.com /archives/000224.html   (2744 words)

  
 Goddard News - Top Feature
Garn is a strong supporter of education and has volunteered countless hours inspiring future scientists, engineers and space explorers which he continued when he met with the summer interns at Goddard.
Garn describes his flight in a replica of Wright Brothers' aircraft
In addition, Garn toured the Center and gave an interesting presentation on his extraordinary experience as US Senator and NASA Astronaut.
www.gsfc.nasa.gov /goddardnews/20030718/garn.html   (81 words)

  
 Healingfield - Dec. 5, 2003 Senator Jake Garn
Healingfield - Dec. 5, 2003 Senator Jake Garn
Jake Garn, two time U.S. Senator, former U.S. Navy Pilot and U.S. astronaut, has accepted the position of national spokesperson and chairman of the Executive Advisory Board for The Healing Field.
The Healing Field originated in Utah on September 11th 2002 as a memorial to the victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on the one year anniversary.
www.healingfield.org /article.php/20031206142752376   (223 words)

  
 Space Politics: Comment on Jake Garn and the "crusade for Mars"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Space Politics: Comment on Jake Garn and the "crusade for Mars"
Garns establishing of a mission launch site on the moon only makes sense if all the materials to create the rockets that one would go in are processed from the moons resources.
Jake Garn wrote a book "Why I Believe" I wonder if that book influences his interest in space.
www.spacepolitics.com /mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=224   (2650 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Edwin Jacob 'Jake' Garn, served as mayor of Salt Lake City and U.S. Senator from Utah, 1975-1993.
NASA Photograph Collection of Jake Garn on Space Shuttle Discovery, 1985, Utah State Historical Society.
The NASA Photograph Collection of Jake Garn on Space Shuttle Discovery is the physical property of the Utah Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.
history.utah.gov /FindAids/C00978/c0978.html   (236 words)

  
 Votes by Jake Garn | Congress votes database | washingtonpost.com
Members of Congress / Jake Garn / Votes
Vote 150: On the Cloture Motion: Cloture on Dodd amdt.
No.84; To provide for a more gradual period of transition to the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977 as such changes apply to workers born in years after 1916 and before 1927 and for other purposes.
projects.washingtonpost.com /congress/members/g000072/votes/page5   (2350 words)

  
 AirNav: 17U - Jake Garn Airport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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www.airnav.com /airport/17U   (293 words)

  
 Former "Republican Senator Jake Garn Shows Total Constitutional Ignorance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Former "Republican Senator Jake Garn Shows Total Constitutional Ignorance
In the body of an article regarding college students right to carry concealed weapons, former RINO US Senator and current Trustee of University of Utah dropped this little gem.
According to Garn, the Bill of (God-Given) Rights is actually Government Given.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1141315/posts   (579 words)

  
 Garn,Jake Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Senator Jake Garn, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for NASA and the first U.S. senator actually to go up into space, gives us a sizzling new suspense novel that asks the unthinkable: What if the space shuttle were hijacked?
International terrorists are ready to hijack the space shuttle.
It is a glasnost-shattering stroke aimed at destroying the fragile bond between the superpowers.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Garn,Jake   (186 words)

  
 STS51D
S85-26541 image text Sen. Jake Garn trains in use of equipment for medical experiments
S85-30450 image text Sen. Jake Garn and payload specialist Charles Waler in middeck simulation
STS51D-07-026 image text Payload specialists Sen. Jake Garn plugs in food warmer in middeck area
science.ksc.nasa.gov /mirrors/images/html/STS51D.htm   (1045 words)

  
 Current Weather Conditions and Forecast at Jake Garn Airport (17U)
Current Weather Conditions and Forecast at Jake Garn Airport (17U)
Jake Garn Airport (17U) - Weather & Forecast
Do NOT use these information for navigation, flight planning, or for use in flight.
www.airport-data.com /airport/17U/weather.html   (67 words)

  
 Jake Garn and Space   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Suggests site to help students learn the history and biography of Jake Garn.
Students will indexes, glossaries, and newspapers to find additional information about social studies topics.
One member is to compile information about the birth of Jake Garn and his family.
www.davis.k12.ut.us /etc/tcip/TCIP317.htm   (120 words)

  
 Eagle Mountain : : Jake Garn Airport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Find a Home Colonial Park Development Jake Garn Airport Community Lifestyle Contact Us
Our private airport is open to the public with a 5,000-foot taxiway currently functioning.
The next phase of development of the Jake Garn Airport includes a 10,000-foot runway and major facilities for general aviation.
www.eaglemountainutah.com /jake-garn-airport.htm   (77 words)

  
 Jake Garn Airport (17U).   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Airport Information for: JAKE GARN, EAGLE MOUNTAIN, UTAH
FBO's located at Jake Garn : All posted fuel prices are with Taxes included!
For these purposes reference should be made to existing government and technical sources.
www.globalair.com /airport/airportinfo~/AptCode=17U   (68 words)

  
 17U - Eagle Mountain [Jake Garn Airport], UT, US - Airport - Great Circle Mapper
17U - Eagle Mountain [Jake Garn Airport], UT, US - Airport - Great Circle Mapper
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gc.kls2.com /airport/17U   (71 words)

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