Henry Hooper Blood (1 October 1872-19 June 1942) was the Democratic Governor of Utah from 2 January 1933 to 6 January 1941, succeeding George Dern and preceding Herbert B. Maw.
Biography[]
Henry Hooper Blood was born in Kaysville, Utah Territory in 1872, the son of English Mormon immigrants. He served as recorder of Kaysville in 1893, as Davis County treasurer from 1896 to 1900, as a Mormon missionary in England from 1901 to 1904, on the Davis County School Board, on the Utah Public Utilities Commission, on the Utah State Road Commission, as the manager of a milling company, and as Governor of Utah from 1933 to 1941. Blood put his state on a "pay as you go" basis, although he also supported the New Deal. He oversaw his state's recovery from the Great Depression by instituting new programs, decreasing state employees' wages, and slashing state departments' size, while supporting New Deal programs to build new public buildings and irrigation. He died a year after leaving office.