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