Six-term Utah House member and former Salt Lake school board member T. Quentin Cannon died May 18, 1994, at home following a short illness.
Mr. Cannon, 88, served in the Utah House from 1968 to 1980. He served on the school board in the 1950s and was elected chairman in 1959. He also was president of the Salt Lake County Board of Recreation.He chaired the committee that built the original Utah Trade Technical College. President Gerald Ford appointed him to the National Highway Safety Advisory Council.
Mr. Cannon's first real job was as a Deseret News carrier, area supervisor and district manager. He went on to law school and a career in the law, politics and church service.
Mr. Cannon graduated from East High School, the University of Utah and received his law degree from Georgetown University.
He worked for the Reconstruction Finance Corp. in Washington, D.C., while in school and clerked for Utah Supreme Court Justice David W. Moffet.
During World War II, Mr. Cannon worked for the Office of Price Administration, rising to become an enforcement attorney and special assistant to the U.S. attorney for Utah.
For most of his professional life Mr. Cannon practiced law in Salt Lake City, much of the time with his firm of Cannon and Duffin.