It's a Small World
With your indulgence, I want to convey one last Cal Rampton anecdote. And while there have been many related since the former three-term governor's death on Sept. 16, I believe it's worth it.
It seems that Rampton's political nemesis time and time again was Republican stalwart and former Brigham Young University President Ernest Wilkinson. They constantly seemed to be butting heads in the political fray.
Wilkinson was heavily involved in the campaign to re-elect GOP Gov. George Dewey Clyde in 1960 while Rampton was involved in the campaign of Clyde's Democratic opponent Bill Barlocker. Then, in 1964, the year Rampton was elected governor, Wilkinson was the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate against Rampton's good friend, Sen. Ted Moss.
Both campaigns were bitter, to say the least.
But long before those political battles, when Rampton was a young administrative assistant to a Utah congressman in the 1930s, he met and became enchanted with a legal secretary in Washington, D.C. by the name of Lucybeth Cardon, who eventually would become his wife of 64 years.
They began to date then, but as Rampton mused in his memoirs, every time he had a date with Lucybeth in Washington, her boss had extra work for her to do which would always make her late.
The boss? Ernest Wilkinson.
"Even then Ernie Wilkinson was causing me problems," Rampton used to joke.
One postscript.
Years later, in 1971, a young couple, marrying in the Salt Lake LDS Temple, had planned the wedding reception for the LDS Stake Center in the Federal Heights area next to the old Governor's Mansion.
After the invitations were sent, they were informed that Ernest Wilkinson had planned a youth meeting at the same church on the same night, so there was a conflict.
The Ramptons heard about their dilemma and let them have the reception at the Governor's Mansion.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
It seems that Rampton's political nemesis time and time again was Republican stalwart and former Brigham Young University President Ernest Wilkinson. They constantly seemed to be butting heads in the political fray.
Wilkinson was heavily involved in the campaign to re-elect GOP Gov. George Dewey Clyde in 1960 while Rampton was involved in the campaign of Clyde's Democratic opponent Bill Barlocker. Then, in 1964, the year Rampton was elected governor, Wilkinson was the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate against Rampton's good friend, Sen. Ted Moss.
Both campaigns were bitter, to say the least.
But long before those political battles, when Rampton was a young administrative assistant to a Utah congressman in the 1930s, he met and became enchanted with a legal secretary in Washington, D.C. by the name of Lucybeth Cardon, who eventually would become his wife of 64 years.
They began to date then, but as Rampton mused in his memoirs, every time he had a date with Lucybeth in Washington, her boss had extra work for her to do which would always make her late.
The boss? Ernest Wilkinson.
"Even then Ernie Wilkinson was causing me problems," Rampton used to joke.
One postscript.
Years later, in 1971, a young couple, marrying in the Salt Lake LDS Temple, had planned the wedding reception for the LDS Stake Center in the Federal Heights area next to the old Governor's Mansion.
After the invitations were sent, they were informed that Ernest Wilkinson had planned a youth meeting at the same church on the same night, so there was a conflict.
The Ramptons heard about their dilemma and let them have the reception at the Governor's Mansion.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
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