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3	3	- 82nd Session (2023)
4	4	Senate Resolution No. 4–Senators Cannizzaro, Seevers Gansert;
5	5	Buck, Daly, Donate, Dondero Loop, Flores, Goicoechea,
6	6	Hammond, Hansen, D. Harris, Krasner, Lange, Neal,
7	7	Nguyen, Ohrenschall, Pazina, Scheible, Spearman, Stone
8	8	and Titus
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10	10	FILE NUMBER..........
11	11	SENATE RESOLUTION—Inducting Richard Bryan into the Senate
12	12	Hall of Fame.
13	13	WHEREAS, The Senate of the Legislature of the State of Nevada
14	14	has established a Senate Hall of Fame whose members are selected
15	15	by leadership from those past Senators who have served with
16	16	distinction and who have made exemplary contributions to the State
17	17	of Nevada; and
18	18	WHEREAS, Richard Hudson Bryan was born in Washington,
19	19	D.C. but moved at a very young age with his family to Las Vegas,
20	20	where he graduated from Las Vegas High School; and
21	21	WHEREAS, Richard received his bachelor of arts degree from the
22	22	University of Nevada, Reno, and his bachelor of laws degree from
23	23	the University of California, Hastings College of the Law; and
24	24	WHEREAS, Richard served as a Second Lieutenant in the United
25	25	States Army, and became a Captain in the Army Reserve, where he
26	26	served in the Judge Advocate General Corps; and
27	27	WHEREAS, In 1966, Richard was appointed to the position of
28	28	Clark County Public Defender, the youngest Public Defender in the
29	29	nation at the time; and
30	30	WHEREAS, In 1968, Richard was elected to the Nevada
31	31	Assembly and in 1972, he was elected to the Nevada Senate, serving
32	32	4 years in the Assembly and 6 years in the Senate; and
33	33	WHEREAS, During his 10 years as a Legislator, Richard served
34	34	as the Chair of the Senate Education and Senate Taxation
35	35	Committees, and helped pass the Corporate Gaming Act, which
36	36	expanded the gaming industry in this State; and
37	37	WHEREAS, After completing his legislative service in 1978,
38	38	Richard was elected Nevada Attorney General, where he worked to
39	39	remove organized crime from Nevada’s gaming industry; and
40	40	WHEREAS, In 1982, Richard was elected as the 25th Governor
41	41	of Nevada, where he prioritized diversifying Nevada’s economy and
42	42	attracting new businesses to the State, and served as President of the
43	43	Council of State Governments; and
44	44	WHEREAS, Richard was elected as a United States Senator
45	45	where he served until 2001, and during his tenure he passed the
46	46	– 2 –
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49	49	- 82nd Session (2023)
50	50	Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act and lead the fight
51	51	against the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump; and
52	52	WHEREAS, Richard will be remembered for his resounding
53	53	integrity, support of Nevada’s gaming industry, and longstanding
54	54	friendship with former Senator Harry Reid; now, therefore, be it
55	55	RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, That, for
56	56	his many years of devoted service to the State of Nevada as a
57	57	member of both the Nevada Senate and Assembly, as the Nevada
58	58	Attorney General, the Governor of Nevada, and as a member of the
59	59	United States Senate, Richard Hudson Bryan is hereby inducted into
60	60	the Senate Hall of Fame of the Legislature of the State of Nevada;
61	61	and be it further
62	62	RESOLVED, That this resolution becomes effective upon
63	63	adoption.
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