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Adam M. Duncan (1927–2000) was a member of the Utah state legislature and a prominent attorney and civil rights leader in
Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
. Duncan was born in
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. As a young man Duncan served a mission for
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in South Africa. He received his law degree from the
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. He was a trial attorney. He was a founder of the Utah branches of the
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and the
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.


Sources


Deseret News obituary
* Russell W.Stevenson. ''For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013'' Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013. p. 108-109. 1927 births 2000 deaths Latter Day Saints from Utah Lawyers from Salt Lake City American Mormon missionaries in South Africa University of Utah alumni 20th-century American lawyers {{Utah-bio-stub