Jerry Twiggs | |
Birth Date: | March 25, 1933 |
Death Date: | January 10, 2000 (aged 66) |
Office: | 38th President pro tempore of the Idaho Senate |
Term Start: | 1993 |
Term End: | 2000 |
Predecessor: | Mike Crapo |
Successor: | Robert L. Geddes |
State Senate1: | Idaho |
District1: | 31st |
Term Start1: | 1986 |
Term End1: | 2000 |
Successor1: | J. Stanley Williams |
Party: | Republican |
Birth Name: | Jerry Thomas Twiggs |
Birth Place: | Bingham County, Idaho, U.S. |
Death Place: | Boise, Idaho, U.S. |
Children: | 2 |
Spouse: | Sandra |
Jerry Thomas Twiggs (March 25, 1933 – January 15, 2000)[1] [2] was an American politician who served as a member of the Idaho Senate for the 31st district from 1986 to 2000.[3]
Outside of politics, Twiggs worked as a farmer. He was elected to the Idaho Senate in 1986 and later served as Republican floor leader.[4] He also served as the 38th president pro tempore of the Senate from 1993 until his death in 2000.[5] Twiggs was a regional leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[6]
Twiggs married his wife, Sandra, in the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple in 1951. They had two sons.