Maw, Herbert Brown

Maw, Herbert Brown[1, 2]

Male 1893 - 1990  (97 years)      Has 61 ancestors and 25 descendants in this family tree.


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    Birth 11 Mar 1893  Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    MMI - I1471 - I11542 - Herbert Brown Maw and Hermina Florence Maw (nee Buehler)
    MMI - I1471 - I11542 - Herbert Brown Maw and Hermina Florence Maw (nee Buehler)
    MMI - I1471 - I11542 - Herbert Brown Maw and Hermina Florence Maw (nee Buehler)

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    Gender Male 
    AFN 1JHH-WD 
    Census 1900 (6 years)  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    US Census 1900 
    • «i»Name:Herbert Maw
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      Residence:Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
      Birth Date:Mar 1893
      Birthplace:Utah
      Relationship to Head-of-Household:Son
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      Father Name:Ephram Maw
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      Father Birthplace:Utah
      Mother Name:Emma Maw
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      Mother Birthplace:Kentucky
      Race or Color (expanded):White
      Head-of-household Name:Ephram Maw
      Gender:Male
      Marital Status:Single
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      Enumeration District:0011
      Sheet Number and Letter:10B
      Household ID:201
      Reference Number:72
      GSU Film Number:1241684
      Image Number:00262
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      Parent «u»Ephram Maw «/u» M
      Parent «u»Emma Maw «/u» F
      Herbert Maw M
      «u»Raymond Maw «/u» M
      «u»Byron Maw «/u» M
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    Obituary
    • Birth: Mar. 11, 1893 Ogden Weber County Utah, USAntbl Death: Nov. 17, 1990 Utah, USArdrdbrdrw10 rdrdbrdrw10 ntbl Politician. Governor of Utah from 1941 to 1949. His two terms as Governor were marked by progressive legislation that lowered utility rates, regulated the extraction of mineral ores, and enlarged the state's industrial base. Maw's liberal stance regarding labor and welfare legislation and land reclamation produced much conservative hostility. He attempted to win a third term as Governor in 1948, but was soundly defeated by Republican J. Bracken Lee. (bio by: Thomas Fisher) Search Amazon for Herbert Maw <http:/​/​www​.amazon​.com/​exec/​obidos/​external-search?tag=findagrave&keyword=Herbert+Maw&mode=blended>ntblntbl Burial: Salt Lake City Cemetery Salt Lake City Salt Lake County Utah, USAntbl Maintained by: Find A Grave Record added: Jul 04, 2006 Find A Grave Memorial# 14813743
    Wikipedia Herbert B. Maw  [4
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    Death 17 Nov 1990  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5
    MMI - I1471 - I11542 - Herbert Brown Maw and Hermina Florence Maw (nee Buehler)
    MMI - I1471 - I11542 - Herbert Brown Maw and Hermina Florence Maw (nee Buehler)
    MMI - I1471 - I11542 - Herbert Brown Maw and Hermina Florence Maw (nee Buehler)

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    Burial 21 Nov 1990  Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
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      Birth: Mar. 11, 1893 Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA
      Death: Nov. 17, 1990 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA

      Politician. Governor of Utah from 1941 to 1949. His two terms as Governor were marked by progressive legislation that lowered utility rates, regulated the extraction of mineral ores, and enlarged the state's industrial base. Maw's liberal stance regarding labor and welfare legislation and land reclamation produced much conservative hostility. He attempted to win a third term as Governor in 1948, but was soundly defeated by Republican J. Bracken Lee. (bio by: Thomas Fisher)

      Family links:
      Parents:
      Ephraim Goodman Maw (1868 - 1954)
      Emma Brown Maw (1870 - 1958)

      Spouse:
      Hermina Florence Buehler Maw (1896 - 1984)

      Children:
      Florence LaRue Maw Hathaway (1925 - 2017)*
      Emma Jeanne Maw Nibley (1930 - 2017)*

      Sibling:
      Herbert Brown Maw (1893 - 1990)
      Raymond Brown Maw (1895 - 1981)*

      *Calculated relationship

      Burial: Salt Lake City Cemetery
      Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
      Plot: West 1-12

      Maintained by: Find A Grave
      Originally Created by: Thomas Fisher
      Record added: Jul 04, 2006
      Find A Grave Memorial# 14813743
    Herbert Brown Maw (1893-1990) - Find a Grave Memorial
    Herbert Brown Maw (1893-1990) - Find a Grave Memorial
    MMI - I1471 - I11542 - Herbert Brown Maw and Hermina Florence Maw (nee Buehler)
    MMI - I1471 - I11542 - Herbert Brown Maw and Hermina Florence Maw (nee Buehler)
    MMI - I1471 - I11542 - Herbert Brown Maw and Hermina Florence Maw (nee Buehler)

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    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Maw  
              d. Yes, date unknown  (11 x Great Grandfather) 
    Baldwin, Fanny
              b. 14 Jul 1838,, Orange, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 12 Aug 1905, Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)  (Grandmother) 
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    Person ID I1471  The Family Maw
    Last Modified 10 Mar 2023 

    Father Ancestors Maw, Ephraim Goodman
              b. 19 Feb 1868, Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 28 Sep 1954, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Ancestors Brown, Emma
              b. 30 May 1870, Paintsville, Johnson, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 9 Nov 1958, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years) 
    Marriage 17 Feb 1892  Logan, Cache, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age at Marriage He : 24 years - She : 21 years and 9 months. 
    Family ID F444  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ancestors Buehler, Hermina Florence
              b. 1 Feb 1896, Manti, Sanpete, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 14 Nov 1984, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years) 
    Marriage 22 Jun 1921  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age at Marriage He : 28 years and 3 months - She : 25 years and 4 months. 
    Children 5 children 
    Family ID F3526  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 25 Oct 2017 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 11 Mar 1893 - Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - US Census 1900 - 1900 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 22 Jun 1921 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - Maw, Captain Herbert Warren - 25 Nov 1922 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - Maw, Florence LaRue - 15 Mar 1925 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - Maw, Emma Jeanne - 19 Jun 1930 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - Maw, Shirley Bea - 16 Feb 1934 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - Maw, Ralph Buehler - 2 Sep 1936 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 17 Nov 1990 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 21 Nov 1990 - Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Herbert Brown Maw was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1893 to Emma Brown and Ephraim Goodman Maw. He later moved with his family to Salt Lake City where he attended LDS High School and the University of Utah Law School. He received a master's degree and a doctor of law degree from Northwestern University. During World War I he served as a Mormon chaplain in the military. He married Florence Buehler in 1921, and they had four children.

      Maw taught speech and political science at the University of Utah and was dean of men from 1928 to 1936. He served for ten years in the state senate and was senate president for four years. He promoted direct primary elections, old-age assistance programs, and government control of public utilities. A member of the Democratic party's liberal wing, he failed in three attempts to win his party's gubernatorial nomination against conservatives, including Governor Henry Blood, whom he challenged in a bitter convention fight in 1936. When the state's first direct primary was held in 1940, Maw defeated Henry D. Moyle for nomination as governor, and went on to win election as Utah's eighth state governor over Republican Don B. Colton, a former congressman.

      Maw's top priority in 1941 was the reorganization of numerous commissions, boards, and bureaus under the direction of a handful of departments, one of which, Publicity and Industrial Development (PID), Maw saw as promoting tourism and new business. The PID department built access roads to scenic attractions and film locations in southern Utah, and also built a natural history museum in Vernal; but funding for PID remained controversial throughout Maw's administration.

      During World War II, Maw helped to lead a successful campaign to attract major military facilities and related war industries to Utah; this created thousands of jobs, reviving the economy and enabling the state to retire its debts. In 1944, with support from conservative Democrats being only lukewarm, Maw supporters created a controversial pamphlet, Morals and the Mayor, that purported to expose lax law enforcement in Price under its colorful mayor, J. Bracken Lee, the Republican nominee. Maw eked out a slim 1,056-vote victory, unsuccessfully contested by Lee.

      Stated goals during Maw's second term were economic security and equal civil rights for all citizens; however, by 1947 he was warning the legislature about the cost of new health, education, and welfare programs. He promoted a major highway building program and approved creation of a state water and power board to oversee development of Colorado River water in Utah. Funding requested by Maw for the pioneer centennial celebration in 1947 attracted many tourists to the state and built the "This Is the Place Monument" at the mouth of Emigration Canyon.

      Public criticism of a state welfare system that lent itself to political interference, a highly publicized case against two state liquor system employees, the dissatisfaction of conservative Democrats, and a campaign letter to fellow Mormons that backfired, all helped lead to Maw's defeat by Republican J. Bracken Lee in 1948.

      Maw sought a U.S. Senate seat in 1956 but was defeated in the primary. He continued active in private life and maintained a private law practice until he was into his nineties. He died on 17 November 1990.


      Social Security Number: 529-38-1880

      The state listed in the birth locality field
      is where the Social Security Number was issued.

  • Sources 
    1. [S54] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United States Social Security Death Index, (This data is only accurate as of 30 Sep 2000).

    2. [S100] Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Maw&GSsr=1&).

    3. [S100] Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Maw&GSsr=1&), https:/​/​www​.findagrave​.com/​memorial/​14813743 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S39] Websites, https:/​/​en​.wikipedia​.org/​wiki/​Herbert_​B​._​Maw (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S113] Social Security Death Index, "Rootsweb," database, ((http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ : 1/2/2010)), entry for Herbert B Maw, 17 Nov 1990, SS no. 529-38-1880, accessed 1 Feb 2010 (Reliability: 3).
      Birth: 11 Mar 1893 - Death: 17 Nov 1990 - Last residence: (not specified) - Last Benefit: (none specified) - SSN: 529-38-1880 - Issued: Utah