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Stewart Udall

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The Resume

    (January 31, 1920-March 20, 2010)
    Born in St. Johns, Arizona
    US Representative from Arizona (1955-61)
    Secretary of the Interior (1961-69)
    Wrote 'The Quiet Crisis' (1963)
    Last surviving member of John F. Kennedy's original cabinet

Why he might be annoying:

    As an Arizona Congressman he lobbied for federal funding for hydroelectric dam projects similar to the ones he would oppose as Interior Secretary.
    He was named to the cabinet partly as a reward for persuading the Arizona delegation at the 1960 Democratic convention to switch its support from LBJ to Kennedy.
    He was replaced in Congress by his brother Morris.
    He wrote, 'The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was married to Erma Lee Webb for 54 years until her death.
    He was a B-52 tail gunner during World War II.
    He organized the first White House conference on conservation since the Teddy Roosevelt administration.
    He presided over the preservation of 3.85 million acres of land, creating 4 new national parks, 8 national seashores and 50 wildlife refuges.
    He helped draft the legislation that provided compensation and a formal apology to uranium miners who contracted cancer from their exposure to radiation (1990).
    He hiked the Grand Canyon well into his mid-80s.

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 19 Votes: 68.42% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 21 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 24 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 86 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 851 Votes: 45.83% Annoying