John C. Ostlund
| John Chapman Ostlund | |
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| Wyoming State Senator from Campbell and Johnson counties | |
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In office 1973–1978 |
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| Preceded by | Richard A. Mader |
| Succeeded by | Catherine M. Parks |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 29, 1927 Gillette, Campbell County, Wyoming, USA |
| Died | April 27, 2004 (aged 76) Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Virginia Ryan Ostlund (married 1952 – his death) |
| Children |
Peg Ostlund |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
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(1) Ostlund came within 2,378 votes (1 percent) of winning the Wyoming gubernatorial general election of 1978. (2) Ostlund's Wyoming State Senate service focused primarily on mineral development and promoting economic progress in the nation's least populous state. (3) Before he held public office, Ostlund spent more than a decade as a county chairman and a state committeeman within the Wyoming Republican Party. (4) Diabetes caused Ostlund to lose his eyesight and rely on seeing-eye dogs for the last nineteen years of his life. |
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Peg Ostlund
John Ostlund, Jr.
Nancy Ostlund Essery
Tom Ostlund
Karin Ostlund
Patrick Ostlund
Jane Ostlund Gebhart
(1) Ostlund came within 2,378 votes (1 percent) of winning the Wyoming gubernatorial general election of 1978.
(2) Ostlund's Wyoming State Senate service focused primarily on mineral development and promoting economic progress in the nation's least populous state.
(3) Before he held public office, Ostlund spent more than a decade as a county chairman and a state committeeman within the Wyoming Republican Party.
John Chapman Ostlund (September 29, 1927 – April 27, 2004) was a diversified businessman from Gillette and Cheyenne, Wyoming, who served in the Wyoming State Senate from 1973 to 1978, when he resigned to seek the Republican gubernatorial nomination. As the GOP nominee, he came within 1 percentage point of unseating Democratic Governor Edgar Herschler of Kemmerer in Lincoln County in western Wyoming. Ostlund lost his sight in 1985 because of complications from diabetes. Thereafter, he became an advocate of the blind and penned his memoirs to benefit the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind in Smithtown, New York.
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