Justin LeMour

  

The Honorable Justin LeMour MP
LeMour in 2018.
Chair of the House Conservative Conference
In office August 18, 2014 – September 1, 2018
Preceded by	Andrew Dice
Succeeded by	Elizabeth Chamberlain
Member of the House of Delegates for Wyoming Proper (Wyoming's 1st district)
In office December 3, 1989 – September 1, 2018
Preceded by	George Keaton
Succeeded by	Anietta Johnson
Member of the Diet of Wyoming for the 20th district
In office January 20, 1980 – December 3, 1989
Preceded by	Mike Davis
Succeeded by	George Carter
Personal details
Born	February 3, 1944 Gillette, Wyoming, Superior
Died	July 22, 2022 (aged 78) Loveland, Colorado Province, Brazoria
Political party	United Conservative
Other political affiliations	United Popular Front (1978–2002) Conservative (1964–1978)
Spouse(s)	Dianna Buckley (m. 1970)
Children	3
Education	University of Denver

Justin James LeMour (February 3, 1944 – July 22, 2022) was a Superian author, public speaker, and politician who served as a Member of the House of Delegates of Superior for Wyoming Proper (Wyoming's 1st parliamentary district) between 1989 and 2018. Prior to be elected to the House of Delegates, LeMour served in the Diet of Wyoming from 1980 until 1989 when he resigned to run in the 1989 Superian federal election. A member of the United Conservative Party, LeMour was one of the longest-serving members of the House of Delegates from Wyoming and rose through the party's ranks serving as Chair of the House Conservative Conference.

Born in 1944 in the city of Gillette, LeMour was born to a Lutheran family who had a farm just outside of the city, but lived in the suburbs with his grandparents, an uncle and aunt working on the farm, of which he frequently visited in his youth. He attended the University of Denver after graduating high school in 1962 and stayed in college where he avoided being drafted into the Superian Royal Army during Great War II due to having a college exemption and being in West Colorado, Kingdom of Sierra, during the war. He later graduated in 1972 and returned home to Superior wanting to wait for the war to end before returning home. Due to hsi upbringing, he held conservative views and was initially a member of the Conservative Party of Superior having registered with the party in 1964, however he would switch his political affiliation to the United Popular Front in 1978 and would remain a member until its dissolution.

During the 1989 federal election, LeMour ran for the House of Delegates to represent Wyoming Proper and ran on the United Popular Front ticket. His opponent was incumbent Conservative House Delegate George Keaton and would emerge victorious over him in the ensuing election. During the 1990s, he would be a staunch opponent of the New Liberal Initiative undertaken by the Liberal Democratic Party which remained the governing party throughout the decade. During the latter half of the 1990s, he would support the United the Right movement and call for unity within the fractured conservative movement. During the 1998 United Popular Front leadership election, he would endorse Alexander Harper and supported him as he neogotiated with the Conservative Party to merge the two parties resulting in the creation of the United Conservative Party in 2002.

Following the 2003 Superian federal election, LeMour became a staunch supporter of Harper after he became President and supported most of his legislative and political agenda including opposing warm relations with the United Commonwealth and other Landonist states, opposing LGBT rights, and supporting economic deregulation. He would only deviate his support in regards to the Syrian Civil War where he opposed any efforts to withdrawal Superian troops from Syria until 2011 when he believed that it was now the time to bring Superian troops back home. Following the election of Jennifer Granholm in the 2015 Superian federal election, he would be a staunch critic of her and became one of the most conservative members of the House of Delegates opposing almost all of her legislative agenda and all of her cabinet and judicial appointments.

In 2018 while visiting his home state of Wyoming, LeMour was injured in automobile crash and was hospitalized and sent his formal letter of resignation on September 1. A special election would take place to fill his seat with LeMour endorsing Joseph Keyes of the Wyoming Senate helping him win the United Conservative nomination. During the ensuing election, it would be Anietta Johnson of the Constitution and Unionist Party who emerged victorious in one of the biggest political upsets in Superian electoral history. LeMour congratuated Johnson on her victory and was released from the hospital in late 2018 returning home in December.

After 2019, LeMour would remain politically active despite retiring from federal politics. On January 20 of that year, he joined United the Right, a political organization founded by former President Alexander Harper, and became one of its co-chairs. He later served as a keynote speaker and organizer for the 2019 Unite the Right Conference and later as a speaker for the 2019 Conservative National Convention where he spoke on the issue of foreign policy and opposition towards Landonism. He also appeared as a panel host for the 2020 Conservative National Convention and would endorse Anna Cooper during the 2019 Arrowhead gubernatorial election.

In 2022, LeMour died from a stroke while visiting Loveland in Colorado Province, Brazoria.

Personal life

Death

Justin LeMour visited Loveland, Colorado Province in Brazoria as part of a vacation in the summer of 2022. On July 21, LeMour suffered a stroke and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he would be pronounced dead the next day. LeMour's body would be brought back to Superior three days later and a funeral was held in Gillete where he was buried at a local cemetary in his hometown per his own request and that of his family. The funeral was attended by numerous friends, family and politicians, including Isaac Dillon, Charles Griffith, Alexander Harper, and other conservative politicians. Anietta Johnson, LeMour's successor in the House of Delegates, remarked that his death was "an untimely tragedy" and that he was a "man of strong and consistant character".

Electoral history

Main article: Electoral history of Justin LeMour

See also

• Unite the Right (Superior)