Political Offices
Snow was first elected to the Utah Territorial Council, the upper house of the territorial legislature, in 1855. He started out serving for Weber County along with Lorin Farr. At that point, Weber County encompassed all of Utah north of Davis County. By 1857, Box Elder County, Cache County and the short-lived Malad County were added to the area Snow and Farr represented. In 1863, Weber and Box Elder Counties were broken off from Cache County (Malad County was by then defunct) and made a single-representative district, with Lorenzo Snow remaining as their lone councilmember. (Ezra T. Benson had replaced Farr as the other councilor in 1861; he was a resident of Cache County and remained the other councilor after the district was split.) In 1872, Snow became the president of the council. He held this position for through the end of 1881. In 1882, Snow remained a member of the council but he was succeeded as president by Joseph F. Smith. In 1884, Snow was succeeded as a member of the council by Franklin S. Richards.
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