wife and son, Hansen was also survived by a brother, Robert Hansen, and a sister, Ordeen Hansen, five grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren. Hansen lay in state in a casket draped with the Wyoming flag at the state capitol in Cheyenne. State funeral services were held on October 24 at the Cheyenne Civic Center. Governor Freudenthal eulogized Hansen: I think that without a doubt we can see Cliff Hansen was beloved and always will be. ... And more than any stone monument, we will carry him with us throughout our lives because he is woven into who we are and through the fabric of this wonderful state. Mrs. Hansen recalled her husband's faith in the American people: "Everybody is important, and his actions both inside and outside politics bore that out." In 1995, Hansen was inducted, along with the Texas artist and illustrator Thomas C. Lea, III, into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as a "Great Westerner." Pete Williams recalled his former boss as follows: "He was an honest man, of rock solid integrity, who loved his wife, his children, and his state. And when his service to his nation was over, he went back to Wyoming, where he died, not far from the log house where he was born." In 1995, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. References External links Clifford P. Hansen Papers at the University of Wyoming - American Heritage Center |- |- |- |- 1912 births 2009 deaths 20th-century American politicians American people of Danish descent American people of English descent County commissioners in Wyoming Republican Party governors of Wyoming People from Jackson, Wyoming Ranchers from Wyoming Republican Party United States senators from Wyoming University of Wyoming alumni People from Teton County, Wyoming 20th-century American Episcopalians