Governor Daniel Thornton. 1961.

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Governor Daniel Thornton. 1961.

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This envelope contains three photographs of Daniel Thornton, two of which are of him wearing a cowboy hat and throwing a football.

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Thornton, Dan, 1911-1976

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Daniel Thornton was born and raised in Tex. in 1911. He attended Texas Technological University for two years and earned his degree at UCLA. Thornton began ranching in 1937 in Springerville, Ariz. He later established the White Mountain Hereford Ranch in the early 1940s when he and his wife, Jessie Willock, moved to Gunnison, Colo. Here they established the Thornton Ranch where he developed the Triumphant Type Hereford. Thornton sold two of his bulls for a record $50,000 each in the 1945 Nationa...