MCKAY, Koln Gunn

McKAY, Koln Gunn
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
1925–2000

Concise Biography

McKAY, Koln Gunn, a Representative from Utah; born in Ogden, Weber County, Utah, February 23, 1925; attended the Weber County public schools and Weber State College, 1958-1960; B.S., Utah State University, Logan, 1962; served in the United States Coast Guard, 1943-1946; businessman and teacher; served in the Utah house of representatives, 1962-1966 and legislative council, 1963-1966; administrative assistant to Governor Calvin L. Rampton of Utah, 1967-1970; president of Ogden Stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1967-1970; chairman, Utah Long Range Goals and Planning Committee, 1965-1967; member, legislative task force on Utah Government Reorganization Committee (Little Hoover Commission), 1965-1967; delegate, Utah State Democratic conventions, 1962-1970; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; president, Scottish Mission, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1981-1984; died in Huntsville, Utah, on October 6, 2000; interment at the Huntsville Cemetery, Huntsville, Utah.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

Utah State University
Special Collections and Archives

Logan, UT
Papers: ca. 1970-1980, amount unknown. The Gunn McKay papers include correspondence files, case files (included here are military liaison files and Ogden constituent files), legislative files, central files, public affairs files, personal files and democratic party files. Material documents much of the government involvement in Utah during the 1970s. Topics include environmental issues, including materials concerning the Golden Spike National Historic Site upgrade, the creation of several of the national parks in southern and eastern Utah, the question of wilderness policy in the west, and the growth of the Central Utah Project; also includes defense issues, including materials which discuss the planned deployment of the Mx missile system, the ongoing controversy over the army's testing of nuclear bombs in the 1950s, and copies of the radiation victims hearings held in Utah. In addition to these Utah topics, the collection contains material about the Vietnam war, the environmental movement, Watergate and other national issues of the time. Some restrictions apply to the records. An inventory for the papers is available in the repository.

University of Oklahoma
The Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive, Department of Communication

Norman, OK
Videocassettes: 1980-1988, 15 commercials on 4 videocassettes. The commercials were used during Gunn McKay's campaigns for the 1980, 1986, and 1988 U.S. congressional elections in District 1 of Utah, Democratic Party.
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Bibliography / Further Reading

Ralph Nader Congress Project. Citizens Look at Congress: K. Gunn McKay, Democratic Representative from Utah. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers, 1972.

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