--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Unknown collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 28 number: 4 published: 1925-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Unknown, “Governor George H. Dern,” *Improvement Era 28, no. 4 (February 1925)*: 379–379." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2804unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2804unse start_page: 379 end_page: 379 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1925-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2804unse publication_year: 1925 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1925, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Governor George H. Dern GOVERNOR GEORGE H. DERN Elected Governor of the State of Utah. November 4, 1924, on the Democratic ticket, was inducted into office, January 5, 1925, the oath of office being ad- ministered by Chief Justice Valentine Gideon. Governor Dern was born September 8, 1872, on his father's farm, in Dodge county, Nebraska; he came to Utah in 1894, and has been prominent ever since in business and mining, was elected State Senator from Salt Lake county in 1914, and has practically served ever since. He is the author of the Workmen's Compensation Act, The Corrupt Practice Act, Absent Voters' L^w, State Mineral Land Leasing Law, and many other progressive measures.