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Southern Utah Republicans picked prominent attorney V. Lowry Snow to fill the vacancy left by Rep. Dave Clark, who resigned last month to run for Congress.
Snow is a former president of the Utah Bar Association and is a founding partner of the St. George firm of Snow Jensen & Reece. He practices real estate law, land use planning and telecommunications law.
Delegates in House District 74 picked Snow by a large margin over three other candidates seeking the office — Pat Bradley, Diane Adams, who both hold positions in the local party, and Bradley Root.
Snow's name will be sent to the state party and then to Gov. Gary Herbert who will make the selection to fill the vacancy. The governor routinely accepts the party's recommendation.
Clark, a regional vice president with Zions Bank, resigned from the Legislature in December after serving nearly 11 years in the Utah Legislature, including time as majority leader and a term as House speaker. He was at the forefront of Utah's health reform efforts.
He stepped down to concentrate on his congressional bid in Utah's 2nd District, which stretches from southern Utah, up the western side of the state and takes in Salt Lake City and much of Davis County.