As of the latest count Tuesday, Cox had just over 36% of the vote, to just under 35% for Huntsman, 21% for Hughes and less than 8% for Wright.The solution is either a run-off election among the top two vote-getters in a primary or returning to just the caucus and convention system to select candidates. Jon Huntsman Jr. returned to Utah from Moscow last fall after serving as President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to Russia and jumped into the governor’s race, many assumed the popular, twice-elected leader would be tough — if not impossible — to beat. Jon Huntsman Jr. served as U.S. ambassador to China from fall of 2009 through April of this year. Courtesy Image The Huntsman family wasn't always wealthy. Many of our employees knew him personally, and he knew many of them by name. In June 2017, on his 80"I can still hear Mr. Huntsman’s words: 'Cancer moves fast…and we have to move faster,'" Dr. Mary Beckerle, CEO of the Huntsman Cancer Institute, said in a statement.Huntsman is survived by his wife Karen and 8 children, including their son Jon Huntsman Jr., a former governor of Utah and current U.S. Former Gov. SALT LAKE CITY — When former Gov. “He leaves an unparalleled legacy of good, from which generations will benefit,” his family said in a statement.Huntsman was chairman emeritus of publicly-traded specialty chemicals firm Huntsman Corp. Mary Kaye Huntsman was born in Orlando, Florida, but when she was 14, her family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. “That type of experience isn’t what it’s kind of cracked up to be.” Dave Hansen, a former Utah GOP chairman who ran campaigns for former Sen. Orrin Hatch and many others, including Davis County Commissioner Bob Stephenson’s unsuccessful bid this year in the party’s 1st Congressional District primary, said voters seemed to be willing to overlook experience for “a bright, shiny, new thing.”Hansen said had there been a runoff election in the governor’s race, Huntsman would be the nominee.“The system is screwed up,” he said, since nearly 64% of the votes cast in the four-way GOP governor’s race were for one of the candidates who lost. In 1974 he came up with the polystyrene “clam shell” container used by fast food restaurants like McDonald’s and Burger King.Huntsman was born in Idaho, the son of a schoolteacher, and grew up working jobs after school that included mowing lawns and picking potatoes for 6 cents per sack. If Jon Huntsman Jr. wins the GOP primary on Tuesday to return to his old job as Utah governor, he may have a gay, Greek, ex-Mormon Democrat … In 2008, Huntsman bested a little-known challenger, Bob Springmeyer, with nearly 78% of the vote.His past popularity and experience wasn’t enough, given who Huntsman faced in the GOP primary, said Jessica Taylor, Senate and governors editor for the Cook Report, a Washington, D.C.-based online newsletter that analyzes and rates campaigns nationwide.“If he had been running against someone that maybe was a political novice, that argument might have worked,” Taylor said. I mean, I think we’re all eager to see what the next chapter holds for Jon Huntsman because clearly, there is more that he would like to do and can do.”Trump visits areas damaged by Hurricane Laura, NBA resumes playoffs, MTV VMA Awards: 5 things to know this weekendHow to Stuff a Turkey the Right Way (for the Juiciest, Most Flavorful Result)What went wrong with former Gov.
I oversee the massive reporting effort that goes into Forbes' annual World's Billionaires List and the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list. He'll decide once he's back in Utah and has had an opportunity to talk with family and friends, a source told the Deseret News Tuesday, saying Huntsman is "keeping an open mind" about entering the … She then enrolled in Highland High School, where she met her future husband, Jon. We believe that we have a lot in common with Ambassador Huntsman, and a lot of the things (voters) were looking for in him, they’ll also find in us.”For Huntsman and his supporters, the loss is difficult to understand. Tim Pawlenty, who also ran for president in 2012 and was unable to secure the GOP nomination for a third term as governor six years later.“He was sort of like Huntsman in that maybe he had some time on the national stage,” Coleman said of Pawlenty, who was considered as a running mate by the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, now Utah Sen. Mitt Romney.