Famous RAMPTONs

Henry Rampton

Henry was a Mormon Pioneer. He founded the dynasty of Utah Ramptons, and most recently his descendant Calvin L. Rampton held office 3 times as Governor of Utah between 1965 and 1977.

Richard Rampton

British Barrister.

James Rampton

British Journalist.

Calvin L. Rampton

Calvin Rampton was born on 6 November 1913 in Bountiful, Utah, the eldest of three children of Lewellyn Smith Rampton and Janet Campbell Rampton. He married Lucybeth Cardon on 10 March 1940, and they had four children. Following his graduation from Davis High School in 1931, he took over the family automobile business, due to his father's death that same year. He sold the business in 1933 and entered the University of Utah, graduating in 1936. Four years later, after having also attended George Washington University Law School, he received his law degree from the University of Utah.

Rampton was Davis County Attorney from 1939 to 1941 and Assistant Attorney General for Utah from 1941 to 1942. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army in Europe and at war's end was Chief of the Senior U.S. Army Claims Commission in Paris. Following the war, he returned to Salt Lake City, where he practiced law until his election as governor in 1964, becoming an authority on transportation and taxation law and developing a wide range of political and corporate ties.

Kenny Rampton

Jazz Trumpeter.

Sheldon Rampton

American Writer and Journalist.