Pete Simpson

Pete Simpson
Wyoming State Representative from Sheridan County
In office 1981–1984
Preceded by	Victor Garber
Succeeded by	Hardy H. Tate
Republican nominee for Governor of Wyoming, 1986
Preceded by	Warren A. Morton
Succeeded by	Mary Mead
Personal details
Born	Peter Kooi Simpson 1930 Cody, Wyoming, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Lynne Alice Livingston
Relations	Milward L. Simpson Alan K. Simpson Colin M. Simpson
Children	3
Alma mater	University of Wyoming University of Oregon
Profession	Historian; college and university administrator

Peter Kooi "Pete" Simpson, Sr. (born 1930), is a retired historian and a member of the Simpson political family in the U.S. state of Wyoming. From 1981 to 1984, he was a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives from Sheridan, where at the time he was employed in administration by the community college, Sheridan College.

In 1986, Simpson was the Wyoming Republican gubernatorial nominee. He polled 46 percent of the vote in his race against the Democrat Michael J. Sullivan of Douglas in Converse County in southeastern Wyoming. In a nationally Democratic year, Sullivan defeated Simpson for the right to succeed fellow Democrat Edgar Herschler.

A native of Cody in Park County, Wyoming, Simpson is one of two sons of the late Governor and U.S. Senator Milward L. Simpson and the former Lorna Kooi (1900-1995), a native of Chicago. The senior Simpson was a lawyer and businessman remembered for his political career. Mrs. Simpson worked in the radio station KODI, the Cody Enterprise newspaper, and the management of their family-owned Cody Inn. She served on the municipal planning and zoning commission, in which capacity she worked in a campaign to beautify Cody into one of Wyoming's most attractive cities and a mecca of tourism. Pete Simpson's great-grandparents, Maggie and John Simpson, platted and named Jackson, Wyoming. Another great-grandparent, Finn Burnett, knew Sacajawea and was an advisor the Shoshone chief, Washakie.

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