Former Salt Lake City mayor and lifelong adventurer Ted Wilson died on April 11, 2024. He was 84 years old.
The family of the three-term mayor said on Thursday that Wilson died of congestive heart failure and Parkinson’s disease.
In the closing weeks of the race, polls showed Wilson with a sizable lead over Republican Norm Bangerter and independent Merrill Cook in a three-way race, but Bangerter eked out the victory by just over 11,000 votes. No Democrat has held the office since. During his tenure as mayor, Wilson oversaw the reconstruction and expansion of the Salt Lake City airport and the city’s response to massive flooding that saw City Creek turn part of downtown into a river, and initiated a change in the city government to its current council format.
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