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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Donald William "Don" Samuelson
|image=Don Samuelson of ID.jpg
|office=25th [[Governor]] of [[Idaho]]
|term_start=January 2, 1967
|term_end=January 4, 1971
|preceded=[[Robert E. Smylie]]
|succeeded=[[Cecil Andrus]]
|birth_date=July 27, 1913
|birth_place=Woodhull, Henry County,<br>[[Illinois]]
|death_date=January 20, 2000 (aged 86)
|death_place=[[Seattle]], [[Washington]]
|death_cause=Heart attack
|resting_place=Pinecrest Memorial Park in Sandpoint, Idaho.
|spouse=Ruby A. Samuelson (married 1936-2000, his death)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aKFfAAAAIBAJ&pg=5223,443150|publisher=''Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune''|title=Former first lady of Idaho dies at 88|date=April 17, 2002|page=8A}}</ref>
|children=Two children
|alma_mate=Attended Knox College<br>
(Galesburg, Illinois)
|occupation=Sporting goods
|residence=Sandpoint, Bonner County,<br>Idaho
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|serviceyears=1944–1946
|branch=[[United States Navy]]
|rank=Gunner's mate
|unit=Farragut Naval Training Station, Idaho;<br>Weapons instructor
|battles=[[World War II]]}}
'''Donald William Samuelson''', known as '''Don Samuelson''' (July 27, 1913 – January 20, 2000), was the 25th [[governor]] of [[Idaho]], having served a single term from 1967 to 1971. A [[conservative]] [[Republican Party|Republican]], he defeated in the 1966 [[primary]], 61 to 39 percent, Governor [[Robert E. Smylie]], a [[Moderate Republican]] who had pushed to passage the state's first [[sales tax]]..<ref name=xgdcdis86>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V7VeAAAAIBAJ&pg=4603%2C1731177 |publisher=''Lewiston Morning Tribune''|author=Mark Warbis|title=Ex-Gov. Don Samuelson dies at 86 of heart attack|date=January 21, 2000|page=C1|accessdate=September 8, 2021}}
Samuelson was born in Wodhull in Henry County in western [[Illinois]]. He attended the private liberal arts institution, Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He served in the [[United States Navy]] in [[World War II]], a weapons instructor and gunsmith at the Farragut Naval Training Station in Lake Pend Oreille in northern Idaho. After his military service, Samuelson relocated his family from Illinois to Sandpoint in Bonner County, at which he owned a sporting goods store.
After he defeated Smylie, Samuelson defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Cecil Andrus]], 41.4 to 37.1, with three [[Independent]]s holding the remaining vote. Andrus turned the tables on Samuelson in 1970, unseating the Republican, 52.2 to 47.8 percent.
Samuelson died of a heart attack at the age of eighty-six in [[Seattle]], [[Washington]]. He and his wife, Ruby A. Samuelson, are interred in Sandpoint at Pinecrest Memorial Park.
==References==
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[[Category:Idaho]]
[[Category:Illinois]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:Republican Governors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:United States Navy]]
|name=Donald William "Don" Samuelson
|image=Don Samuelson of ID.jpg
|office=25th [[Governor]] of [[Idaho]]
|term_start=January 2, 1967
|term_end=January 4, 1971
|preceded=[[Robert E. Smylie]]
|succeeded=[[Cecil Andrus]]
|birth_date=July 27, 1913
|birth_place=Woodhull, Henry County,<br>[[Illinois]]
|death_date=January 20, 2000 (aged 86)
|death_place=[[Seattle]], [[Washington]]
|death_cause=Heart attack
|resting_place=Pinecrest Memorial Park in Sandpoint, Idaho.
|spouse=Ruby A. Samuelson (married 1936-2000, his death)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aKFfAAAAIBAJ&pg=5223,443150|publisher=''Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune''|title=Former first lady of Idaho dies at 88|date=April 17, 2002|page=8A}}</ref>
|children=Two children
|alma_mate=Attended Knox College<br>
(Galesburg, Illinois)
|occupation=Sporting goods
|residence=Sandpoint, Bonner County,<br>Idaho
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|serviceyears=1944–1946
|branch=[[United States Navy]]
|rank=Gunner's mate
|unit=Farragut Naval Training Station, Idaho;<br>Weapons instructor
|battles=[[World War II]]}}
'''Donald William Samuelson''', known as '''Don Samuelson''' (July 27, 1913 – January 20, 2000), was the 25th [[governor]] of [[Idaho]], having served a single term from 1967 to 1971. A [[conservative]] [[Republican Party|Republican]], he defeated in the 1966 [[primary]], 61 to 39 percent, Governor [[Robert E. Smylie]], a [[Moderate Republican]] who had pushed to passage the state's first [[sales tax]]..<ref name=xgdcdis86>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V7VeAAAAIBAJ&pg=4603%2C1731177 |publisher=''Lewiston Morning Tribune''|author=Mark Warbis|title=Ex-Gov. Don Samuelson dies at 86 of heart attack|date=January 21, 2000|page=C1|accessdate=September 8, 2021}}
Samuelson was born in Wodhull in Henry County in western [[Illinois]]. He attended the private liberal arts institution, Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He served in the [[United States Navy]] in [[World War II]], a weapons instructor and gunsmith at the Farragut Naval Training Station in Lake Pend Oreille in northern Idaho. After his military service, Samuelson relocated his family from Illinois to Sandpoint in Bonner County, at which he owned a sporting goods store.
After he defeated Smylie, Samuelson defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Cecil Andrus]], 41.4 to 37.1, with three [[Independent]]s holding the remaining vote. Andrus turned the tables on Samuelson in 1970, unseating the Republican, 52.2 to 47.8 percent.
Samuelson died of a heart attack at the age of eighty-six in [[Seattle]], [[Washington]]. He and his wife, Ruby A. Samuelson, are interred in Sandpoint at Pinecrest Memorial Park.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Samuelson, Don}}
[[Category:Idaho]]
[[Category:Illinois]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:Republican Governors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:United States Navy]]