In 1961 , at the age of forty-five , he left the newspaper business to attend Harvard law school at the University of Wyoming . He returned to Rock Springs , a heavily Democratic community , to practice law from 1963 until retiring in 1996 . His state Senate service spanned three four-year terms , including two years as the Democratic floor leader and two others as the chairman of the Senate Labor Committee . He also chaired a special committee to rewrite the Wyoming education code . He was the Chairman floor leader for House Bill 208 , which expanded the trona industry . In 1972 , he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach , Florida , which nominated the U.S. Senator George S. McGovern of South Dakota for the U.S. presidency . He was an alternate delegate to several other Democratic conventions
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1972 Democratic National Convention
Robert H. Johnson