MILWARD L. SIMPSON was born in Jackson, Wyoming. Raised on the Wind River Indian Reservation, he worked as a coal miner, day laborer, cowpuncher, and semi-professional baseball player, and served…

JOHN JOSEPH HICKEY was born in Rawlins, Wyoming. He attended the University of Wyoming, graduating with an LL.B. degree in 1934 and an LL.D. degree in 1959. He established a…

JACK ROBERT GAGE born in McCook, Nebraska, enlisted in the Army Coast Artillery Corp immediately after graduating from Worland, Wyoming High School in 1918. Discharged one year later, he went…

CLIFFORD P. HANSEN was born in Zenith, Teton (then Lincoln) County, Wyoming, on October 16, 1912. His family were pioneers who homesteaded and settled in the Jackson Hole area. Hansen…

STANLEY K. HATHAWAY was born July 19, 1924, in Osceola, Nebraska. He was adopted upon his mother's death by Franklin E. and Velma Hathaway. Hathaway graduated from Huntley High School…

EDWARD HERSCHLER was born in Lincoln County, Wyoming, in 1918. He served in World War II with the U.S. Marine Corps. In 1949, he received a law degree from the…

MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and grew up in Douglas, Wyoming. He received a bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering in 1961 and a law degree…

JIM GERINGER was born in Wheatland, Wyoming, and raised on the family farm. He received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Kansas State University. He was on active duty…

Wyoming native Dave Freudenthal graduated from Amherst College in 1973 and then returned to Wyoming to take a position as an economist for the Wyoming Department of Economic Planning and…

J. MILLARD TAWES was born in Crisfield, Maryland on April 8, 1894. His education was attained in public schools in Somerset County, Maryland, at Wilmington Conference Academy in Dover, Delaware,…

Matt Mead was sworn in as governor of Wyoming on January 3, 2011, and was sworn for his second term on January 5, 2015. Born in Jackson, Wyoming, Mead was…