When Edward Gerald Proctor was born on 20 July 1929, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, William Thomas Proctor, was 26 and his mother, Helen Meier, was 24. He married Hazel Charlene Hanley on 23 December 1950, in Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Election Precinct 4, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 24 February 2011, in Sequim, Clallam, Washington, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Port Angeles, Clallam, Washington, United States.
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The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Being supported through Salt Lake City taxes, the Hogle Zoo has been at its present location at the mouth of Emigration Canyon since 1931 on land donated by Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hogle. In 1936, the zoo purchased Princess Alice, an elephant, from a traveling circus. She gave birth to the first elephant born in Utah. His name was Prince Utah and he died at eleven months old. Current exhibits include various birds, mammals, and reptiles from around the world.
Before the Twenty-second Amendment, the Presidency didn’t have a set number limit on how many times they could be elected or re-elected to the office of President of the United States. The Amendment sets that limit to two times, consecutively or not, and sets additional conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.
English (northern): occupational name from Middle English prok(e)tour ‘steward’ (shortened from Old French procurateour, Latin procurator ‘agent’, from procurare ‘to manage’). The term was used most commonly of an attorney in a spiritual court, but also of other officials such as collectors of taxes and agents licensed to collect alms on behalf of lepers and enclosed orders of monks.
History: John Proctor (died 1757) was a prominent citizen of Boston, MA, and is buried in the King's Chapel Burying Ground there.
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