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Jeremiah Clark
Jeremiah Clark (Republican Party) ran for election to the Utah House of Representatives to represent District 40. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Clark completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jeremiah Clark was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah in 1987, a master's degree from Idaho State University in 1994, and a Ph.D. from Brigham Young University in 1998. Clark's career experience includes working as a religious educator.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Utah House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Utah House of Representatives District 40
Incumbent Stephanie Pitcher defeated Jeremiah Clark and David Else in the general election for Utah House of Representatives District 40 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Stephanie Pitcher (D) | 69.4 | 13,261 |
 | Jeremiah Clark (R)  | 30.6 | 5,841 | |
| David Else (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 7 | ||
| Total votes: 19,109 | |||
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Democratic convention
Democratic convention for Utah House of Representatives District 40
Incumbent Stephanie Pitcher advanced from the Democratic convention for Utah House of Representatives District 40 on April 25, 2020.
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Republican convention
Republican convention for Utah House of Representatives District 40
Jeremiah Clark advanced from the Republican convention for Utah House of Representatives District 40 on April 25, 2020.
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| ✔ | | Jeremiah Clark (R) |
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Endorsements
To view Clark's endorsements in the 2020 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jeremiah Clark completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Clark's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My wife Rachel and I were born and raised in what is now Millcreek. We attended local public schools, including Granite High, Olympus High, and the University of Utah (BS). We are delighted to be back home (since 2015) after 18 years in Virginia and North Carolina. We love this community and our state. I will work to preserve our local treasures: the canyons, trails, and parks.
I am an educator with an M.Ed. from Idaho State University and a Ph.D. in Sociology from BYU.
I am running to be YOUR representative in the Utah Legislature. Throughout my career and personal life, I have led and facilitated compromise, consensus, and trust between unique and diverse individuals and groups. Today, we need to build trust between public servants and those they serve. Working together, trusting one another we will successfully meet today's challenges of improving physical and mental health care, air quality, and education (specifically teacher salaries) while building a strong economy.
- Poor air quality negatively impacts our physical and mental health as well as Utah's economy. I support legislative partnerships with UCAIR and Breathe Utah, as well as employers, and citizen groups eager to improve air quality.I will work closely with clean air advocates and within the legislature to improve Utah's air quality. I encourage government and large private-sector employers to create or increase work-from-home opportunities and optional 4-day work weeks to reduce daily commute emissions. In recent months we have seen the significant, almost miraculous, improvement of air quality from reduced emissions due to the pandemic. We can have clean air!
- I am thankful to live in this day! We are witnessing diverse and powerful voices coming together and calling for the eradication of racial inequality and prejudice. This is the great ideal that this country was founded upon, and which divided our country with brother killing brother before a "new birth of freedom" was won. Today there remains racial inequality and disharmony. I am eager to listen and expose all systemic and personal prejudice, to courageously work together and bring an end to every kind of discrimination and bias.
- I have a deep personal interest in improving mental health care and services. A solution for homelessness must include access to mental health treatment and ongoing support. Utah has adequate resources from our caring health professionals, citizens, and the business community to greatly improve access to quality mental health care.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 27, 2020
