Ivan M. Matheson | |
State: | Utah |
State Senate: | Utah |
District: | 29th |
Term Start: | 1977 |
Term End: | 1988 |
Party: | Republican |
Birth Date: | 9 November 1926 |
Birth Place: | Enoch, Utah, U.S. |
Death Place: | Cedar City, Utah, U.S. |
Profession: | Dairy farmer |
Residence: | Cedar City, Utah |
Spouse: | Etta Louise Warren (m. 1948–2010; her death) |
Ivan Mack Matheson (November 9, 1926 – February 21, 2016), was an American politician and farmer.
Matheson was elected to the Iron County Commission in 1962. He served four terms on that body.
Matheson served as a Republican member of the Utah State Senate from 1977 until 1989. He also served on the Iron County Commission.[1] Matheson is an alumnus of Oregon State University and was a dairy farmer.[2] He died on February 21, 2016, in Cedar City.[3] [4]
Matheson was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was the first bishop of the Enoch 2nd Ward. He later served with his wife as a missionary in the Florida Tallahassee Mission, was assigned to work with the church's addiction recovery program, and for several years was a temple worker in the St. George Temple.[5]