Howard C. Nielson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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United States Congressman from Utah
Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1924
Place of Birth: Richfield, Utah, United States
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Howard C. Nielson
- Howard Curtis Nielson (born September 12, 1924) is a U.S.
- Republican politician. Nielson was born in Richfield, Utah; his paternal grandparents were immigrants from Denmark.
- After graduating from Richfield High School in 1942, he served as a sergeant in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II from 1943 to 1946.
- He continued his education, earning his B.S.
- from the University of Utah in 1947, M.S.
- from the University of Oregon in 1949, and M.B.A.
- and Ph.D from Stanford University in 1956 and 1958, respectively.He later founded the Department of Statistics at Brigham Young University, Provo. Nielson first served in political office as a member of the Utah House of Representatives from 1967 to 1974, serving as Speaker of the House in his last term.
- He was an associate commissioner on the Utah Commission for Higher Education for two years.
- He was a delegate to the Utah State Republican Conventions from 1960 to 1982.He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives from Utah and served four terms, from January 3, 1983 to January 3, 1991.
- While in Congress, Nielson sponsored two resolutions calling on Israel to reopen Palestinian schools and colleges.
- In 1985 he was one of just two "nay" voters on a resolution urging Taiwan to extradite gangster Chen Chi-li, who had murdered dissident journalist Henry Liu in San Francisco the previous year.
- He also cosponsored a bill to limit tobacco advertising.
- He also was a leading proponent of releasing the names of people who tested positive for AIDS to Public Health Officials.
- Nielson was also one of the main negotiators of the 1990 Clean Air Act.
- Nielson was an early promoter of rating of song lyrics.Nielson and his wife Julie had seven children - 3 sons and 4 daughters.
- He retired from Congress so he could serve as a Mormon missionary with his wife.
- They served as missionaries in both Australia and Hungary.In 1996, Nielson was elected to the Utah State Senate.Nielson's first wife died in 2003.
- He later married Donna Esther Brown, herself a widow and the sister of one of his former House colleagues, Ron Packard of California.
- Donna died in 2015 of bone marrow cancer.One of Nielson's children, Howard Jr., is a Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Utah beginning in 2019.
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