 Paul Dominque Laxalt (born August 2, 1922) was a Governor and U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of Nevada. He is a Republican. Image File history File links Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt. ...
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Paul Laxalt was born in Reno, Nevada, the son of a Basque shepherd and a Basque mother who had a restaurant in Carson City, the capital of Nevada. He served as a medical corpsman in the U.S. Army during World War II seeing action in the Battle of Leyte Gulf during the Philippine invasion. Prior to the war, he had attended Santa Clara University. After the war, he graduated from the University of Denver in 1949. He was the district attorney for Ormsby County, Nevada between 1950 and 1954. City nickname: The Biggest Little City in the World Downtown Reno at night Founded May 13, 1868 County Washoe County Mayor Bob Cashell Area - Total - Land - Water 179. ...
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Paul Laxalt was elected lieutenant governor of Nevada in 1962 and served until 1966. In 1964 he ran for the U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Howard Cannon and lost a controversial election by less than one hundred votes. Two years later, he was elected Governor of Nevada|, defeating a two-term incumbent (Grant Sawyer) and served until 1970 when he decided against seeking re-election. He ran for the U.S. Senate in the Watergate year of 1974, defeating Lieutenant Governor Harry Reid in an election that was decided by less than 1,000 votes. Laxalt served two terms in the U.S. Senate (1974 to 1987). A Lieutenant Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ...
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Howard Walter Cannon (January 26, 1912–March 5, 2002) was an American politician. ...
During his time as governor, Paul Laxalt became close friends with Ronald Reagan, who was then in his first term as governor of California. They worked on many issues of mutual interest to the two states, principally those dealing with the preservation of Lake Tahoe. During Reagan's presidency, Senator Laxalt was sometimes referred to as the "First Friend" (cf. First Lady). Paul Laxalt was national chairman of all three Reagan presidential campaigns and placed Reagan's name in nomination at the Republican National Conventions of 1976, 1980 and 1984. At the behest of President Reagan, Laxalt served in the then-unprecedented role of General Chairman of the Republican Party from 1983-1987. Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989), and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ...
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President Reagan's trust and confidence in Senator Laxalt was once again demonstrated in 1985 when Reagan asked his friend to travel to the Philippines to warn President Ferdinand Marcos about the U.S. government's increasing concerns about the state of the Philippine economy and the threat posed by a communist insurgency. At the height of the Philippine crisis, Marcos called Senator Laxalt to ask for his advice. Laxalt famously said that Marcos should "cut and cut cleanly." Sixteen hours later, Ferdinand Marcos, after 21 years as President of the Philippines, departed the country, never to return. A potential bloodly Civil War was thus averted.
Paul Laxalt's brother, Robert Laxalt, was a noted and prolific writer. His book "Sweet Promised Land" which told the story of his father returning to his Basque homeland after almost 50 years in the American West, was an internationally acclaimed book that won several literary awards. Robert Laxalt is a Spanish-American writer from Nevada, brother of Paul Dominique Laxalt, former governor and senator from the state of Nevada. ...
Between his terms as Governor and Senator, Paul Laxalt built and operated the Ormsby House hotel and casino in Carson City, Nevada. In 1984 Paul Laxalt sued McClatchey Newspapers of California for $250 million for libel because a Sacramento Bee reporter wrote an article stating that the Ormsby House had been "skimmed" during the period the Laxalt family owned the hotel/casino. In 1987, Paul Laxalt dropped the lawsuit after the Bee acknowledged that there was no evidence to support its claim that the casino had been skimmed. Under the terms of the settlement, the question of attorneys' fees and court costs was determined by a panel of retired federal judges. The three judges eventually awarded the Laxalt side $647,452.52. One of the panelists, Griffin Bell, former President Jimmy Carter's Attorney General, said that he would have awarded even more but felt that the panel's decision was fair. [citation needed] Laxalt felt vindicated by the outcome and said that the reason he filed the suit in the first place was because "there's nothing more valuable, in my book, than one's reputation and the reputation of one's family as well." The Ormsby House is a hotel/casino in Carson City, Nevada. ...
Paul Laxalt was married to Jackalyn Ross, the daughter of a prominent Federal judge in Nevada. Paul and Jackie had five daughters and one son. Paul later married his second wife, Carol, who had one daughter from a previous marriage.
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