From Deseret News archives:
Utah's Power Players: 1 - 20
1 LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley, 90. Became church president in 1995 after 14 years in the church's First Presidency. In the Quorum of The Twelve since 1961. Worked as a church employee or a general authority since 1935.
2 Gov. Mike Leavitt, 50. Only the second Utah governor to be elected to a third term. First elected in 1992. Previous experience: CEO of family insurance company, The Leavitt Group. Part-time political consultant to U.S. senators, governors and President Ronald Reagan.
3 Jon M. Huntsman Sr., 63. Chairman and principal owner of Huntsman Corp., the largest privately held petrochemical corporation in the world. Philanthropist, giving $350 million to Utah-based charities. Founded the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Medical Center.
5 Larry Miller, 57. Owner of 38 car dealerships in the West. Owner of the Utah Jazz, Delta Center and Jordan Commons.
Also listed as No. 1 dealmaker in the state in newspaper study.
6 Spencer Eccles, 66. Former chairman of First Security Bank, at one time the largest bank in Utah. Now Western states chairman of Wells Fargo Bank. Philanthropist through various Eccles family foundations. SLOC board member.
7 Mitt Romney, 54. President of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. Previous experience: founded and ran Bain Capital in Boston, a $15 billion venture capital firm. Republican U.S. Senate candidate against Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1994. Possible Massachusetts GOP gubernatorial candidate in 2002.
8 Utah House Speaker Marty Stephens, 46. Starting his second, two-year term as speaker; 12-year GOP veteran of the House. Current and previous experience: manager at Zions Bank, real estate and insurance sales.
9 Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson, 49. Entering his second full year as mayor. Previous experience: as a Democrat, lost the 1996 2nd Congressional District race; longtime trial attorney and community activist.
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