Herbert B. Maw; Former Governor of Utah

Herbert B. Maw, 97, who served two terms as governor of Utah in the 1940s. Maw was born in 1893, in Ogden, the Territory of Deseret, three years before Utah became a state. He received a law degree from the University of Utah in 1916 and a doctorate from Northwestern University in 1927. During World War I, Maw served as a pilot and was among the Army’s first Mormon chaplains. A Democrat, he was elected to the Utah Senate in 1930 and won the governorship in 1940. At 93, Maw was still practicing law, often for free to those who could not afford legal services. In an interview in 1984, he said he walked three miles a day, a habit from the days when he could not afford a streetcar ride. In Salt Lake City on Saturday.