Stewart L. Udall

1920–2010 (age 90)

Politician

Biography

Stewart L. Udall (1920-2010) brought a compassionate vision to his service as Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, championing wilderness preservation, public lands, and the Clean Air and Water Acts.

He spent decades afterward teaching, writing, and encouraging new stewards of the environment, leaving a treasury of ideas that still inspire protectors of the natural world as he rests at St. Johns Cemetery.

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