Brian Doughty is a former member of the

Utah House of Representatives The Utah House of Representatives is the lower house of the Utah State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. The House is composed of 75 representatives elected from single member constituent districts. Each district cont ...

, representing the 30th District in

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. He was selected on July 16, 2011 by local Democratic delegates to replace state representative

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, who had resigned when she moved out of the district. He was sworn in on July 20, 2011. In the

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process that followed the 2010 census, Doughty's home was placed in the 26th district, along with that of House Minority Leader David Litvack. A contested Democratic primary between the two incumbents seemed to be on the cards until, in March 2012, Litvack announced that he would retire rather than seek re-election. Doughty lost his bid for re-election in the new district at the Salt Lake County Convention. Doughty is openly gay and previously served on the board of

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Utah House of Representatives - Brian Doughty
official UT House profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Doughty, Brian 1971 births Gay politicians LGBT state legislators in Utah Living people Democratic Party members of the Utah House of Representatives Politicians from Salt Lake City 21st-century American LGBT people