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Herbert Brown Maw (11 March 1893-17 November 1990) was the Democratic Governor of Utah from 6 January 1941 to 3 January 1949, succeeding Henry H. Blood and preceding J. Bracken Lee.

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Herbert Brown Maw was born in Ogden, Utah in 1893, and he was raised in Salt Lake City. He practiced law and served in the US Aviation Corps during World War I, and he taught at the LDS Business College from 1916 to 1917 and from 1919 to 1923 and as a professor at the University of Utah from 1927 to 1940. Maw also served in the State Senate from 1928 to 1938 and as Governor from 1941 to 1949, pushing through reductions in utility rates and regulations on ore extraction in the state; however, he opposed liberalizing Utah's drinking laws. He died in 1990.

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