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Columbia Encyclopedia: Udall, Stewart Lee
('dôl) , 1920–, U.S. cabinet member, b. St. Johns, Ariz. After serving in World War II, Udall practiced law in Tucson until elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954. As a member of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs he gained a reputation as a conservationist and as an advocate of public works. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy for the presidency, he became in Jan., 1961, the first Arizonan to hold a cabinet post. As Secretary of the Interior under both Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, he stressed government dam building to generate increased public power and advocated enlargement of the national park system. He subsequently wrote a syndicated newspaper column.

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See his National Parks of America (1966), The Quiet Crisis (1963, repr. 1967), and 1976: Agenda for Tomorrow (1968).

 
 
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"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."

 
Wikipedia: Stewart Udall
Stewart Udall
Stewart Udall

In office
January 21, 1961 – January 20, 1969
President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by Fred Andrew Seaton
Succeeded by Walter Joseph Hickel

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona's 2nd district
In office
January 3, 1955 – January 21, 1961
Preceded by Harold Patten
Succeeded by Mo Udall

Born January 31 1920 (1920--) (age 87)
Flag of Arizona St. Johns, Arizona
Political party Democratic
Religion The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Stewart Lee Udall (born January 31, 1920) is a former American politician.

Born in St. Johns, Arizona, he is the son of Levi Stewart Udall. He was educated at the University of Arizona, and he saw combat as a gunner in the Army Air Corps during the Italian Campaign of World War II. Stewart Udall graduated from the University of Arizona Law School in 1948, and began his own law practice in Tucson shortly thereafter.

Udall became increasingly active in public service, being elected to the School Board of Amphitheater Public Schools (District 10) in Tucson in June 1951. He became the President of Amphitheater School Board in 1952.

Stewart Udall served as U.S. Representative from Arizona from 1955 to 1961 and then as Secretary of the Interior under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1969, when he described his nation's ecological attitudes as the "myth of superabundance"[1]. Udall was largely responsible for the enactment of environmental laws in Johnson's Great Society legislative agenda, including the Clear Air, Water Quality and Clean Water Restoration Acts and Amendments, the Wilderness Act of 1964, the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the Land and Water Conservation [Fund] Act of 1965, the Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965, the National Trail System Act of 1968, and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968.

He was the brother of Congressman and 1976 presidential candidate Mo Udall; he served as Mo's campaign manager during the primary election, which Mo lost to Jimmy Carter. Stewart's son Tom Udall and nephew Mark Udall are currently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Point Udall, the easternmost place in the United States, was named for him.

He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He is the author of numerous books, including his most well known, The Quiet Crisis, published in 1963. In 1968 Udall received an LL.D. from Bates College.

Udall, along with Robert McNamara and W. Willard Wirtz are the only three surviving members of the Kennedy administration cabinet.

  1. ^ Vanity Fair, May 2007 issue 561, p. 163

See also

Udall family

External links/References

  • Stewart Udall at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress


Preceded by
Harold A. Patten
U.S. Representative, Arizona 2nd Congressional District
1955–1961
Succeeded by
Mo Udall
Preceded by
Fred Seaton
United States Secretary of the Interior
1961–1969
Succeeded by
Walter Joseph Hickel

 
 

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