Richard Johnson Maughan (November 13, 1917 – July 8, 1981) was an American judge who served as an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah from 1975 to 1981 and as
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah in 1981.
Born in
Cache Valley
Cache Valley is a valley of northern Utah and southeast Idaho, United States, that includes the Logan metropolitan area. The valley was used by 19th century mountain men and was the site of the 1863 Bear River Massacre. The name, Cache Valley i ...
, Maughan received a
JD from the
University of Utah and was
admitted to the bar in 1951.
He was an Assistant State Attorney General in Utah from 1951 to 1969.
In 1968 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the
United States House of Representatives for
Utah's 1st congressional district.
Maughan ran as a
Democrat
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Politics
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, and was defeated in a landslide by
Republican incumbent
Laurence J. Burton
Laurence Junior Burton (October 30, 1926 – November 27, 2002) was a U.S. Representative from Utah.
Born in Ogden, Utah, Burton graduated from Ogden High School in 1944.
Enlisted in the United States Navy Air Corps and served from January ...
, who received over 68% of the vote with 139,456 votes to Maughan's 65,265.
The following year, however, Maughan was appointed to the
Utah State Board of Higher Education.
In 1974, Maughan ran for a seat on the Utah Supreme Court, defeating incumbent
E. R. Callister Jr.
References
External links
Mountain West Digital Library page on Richard J. Maughan
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1917 births
1981 deaths
Justices of the Utah Supreme Court
Utah Democrats
Chief justices of the Utah Supreme Court
20th-century American judges
S.J. Quinney College of Law alumni