Ken Ivory is an American politician and lobbyist serving as a 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 conta ...

for the 47th district.

Career

Ivory is the president of Ivory Law and the American Lands Council. ALC is a controversial non-profit organization (founded by Ivory) to promote Ivory's desire to see states assume control of federal lands within state's boundaries. Ivory and ALC have been the subject of complaints filed with Utah's attorney general, citing Ivory's conflict of interest for writing legislation to benefit ALC while he was a sitting legislator. ALC has paid Ivory a wage over $100,000 while also paying Ivory's wife Rebecca nearly $20,000 for working as ALC's communications director. He was elected to the

in November 2010 and assumed office on January 1, 2011. He left office in August 2019 to take a position with the Utah-based corporation, Geomancer. In November 2021, Ivory was re-appointed to his old seat in the House after Steve Christiansen resigned.

Committee assignments

During the 2016 legislative session, Ivory served on the Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environmental Quality Appropriations Subcommittee, the House Public Utilities (which he was the chair), the House Revenue and Taxation Committee, and the House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee. During the interim, Ivory serves on the Revenue and Taxation Interim Committee, and the Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Interim Committee. He is also a member of the Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands, Commission on Federalism and the Federal Funds Commission.

Transfer of Public Lands Act

Representative Ivory is a strong supporter of states' rights and has frequently advocated for

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 ...

to gain control of

federal lands Federal lands are lands in the United States owned by the federal government. Pursuant to the Property Clause of the United States Constitution ( Article 4, section 3, clause 2), Congress has the power to retain, buy, sell, and regulate federal l ...

. In 2012, Ivory sponsored HB 148, the

Utah Transfer of Public Lands Act The State of Utah passed legislation in 2012—the Utah Transfer of Public Lands Act—to require the Federal government to grant the majority of federal land in the state to the state of Utah after 2014. According to Donald J. Kochan, the federal ...

, which asserted that the federal government must grant federal land to the state of

. Though the bill was signed into law in 2012, federal lands have remained in control of the

United States Department of the Interior The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government headquartered at the Main Interior Building, located at 1849 C Street NW in Washington, D.C. It is responsible for the ma ...

. Since the federal lands have not been relinquished to Utah, in December 2015 the state legislature has voted to pursue a lawsuit against the federal government.

Elections

*2022: Ivory won the race for District 39 in the November 8 general election. *2014: Ivory was unopposed for the 2014 Republican Convention and won the November 4, 2014 General election with 4,634 votes (65.8%) against Democratic nominee Alena M. Balmforth. *2012: Ivory was unopposed for the June 26, 2012 Republican Primary and won the three-way November 6, 2012 General election with 7,354 votes (62.5%) against Democratic nominee Joseph Huey and Libertarian candidate Chase Lantis. *2010: Ivory challenged District 47 incumbent Republican Representative Steven Mascaro and was chosen by the Republican convention for the November 2, 2010 General election; Ivory won with 4,384 votes (61%) against Democratic nominee John Rendell.

Family

Ken Ivory is related to Clark Ivory, who owns Ivory Homes. Both grew up in the small town of Mount Pleasant in Sanpete County, Utah—where their family has lived since the early 1900s

References

External links

Official page
at the

Utah State Legislature The Utah State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. It is a bicameral body, comprising the Utah House of Representatives, with 75 state representatives, and the Utah Senate, with 29 state senators. There are no term li ...

Campaign site

Ken Ivory
at Ballotpedia
Ken Ivory
at the National Institute on Money in State Politics
The American Lands Council
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