Editing Larry Echo Hawk (section)

{{short description|Attorney and legal scholar}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = Larry Echo Hawk
|image        = LarryEchoHawkDOI.JPG
|caption      = Echo Hawk in 2009
|office       = 11th [[Bureau of Indian Affairs|Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs]] 
|president    = [[Barack Obama]]
|term_start   = May 22, 2009
|term_end     = April 27, 2012
|predecessor  = [[Carl J. Artman|Carl Artman]]
|successor    = [[Donald Laverdure|Del Laverdure]] (acting)
|office1      = 30th [[Idaho Attorney General|Attorney General of Idaho]]
|governor1    = [[Cecil D. Andrus|Cecil Andrus]]
|term_start1  = January 7, 1991
|term_end1    = January 2, 1995
|predecessor1 = [[Jim Jones (judge)|Jim Jones]]
|successor1   = [[Al Lance]]
|state_house2 = Idaho
|district2    = [[Bannock County, Idaho|Bannock County]]
|term_start2  = 1982
|term_end2    = 1986
|birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1948|8|2}}
|birth_place  = [[Cody, Wyoming|Cody]], [[Wyoming]], U.S.
|death_date   = 
|death_place  = 
|nationality  = American<br>[[Pawnee people|Pawnee Nation]]
|party        = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|spouse       = Terry Echo Hawk
|children     = 6
|education    = [[Brigham Young University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br>[[University of Utah]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])<br>[[Stanford University]] ([[Master of Business Administration|MBA]])
|branch       = {{flag|United States Marine Corps}}
}}
'''Larry J. Echo Hawk''' (born August 2, 1948) is an American [[Lawyer|attorney]], legal scholar, and politician. A member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], Echo Hawk served under [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Barack Obama]] as the [[Bureau of Indian Affairs|United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs]] from 2009 to 2012.<ref>{{citation |access-date= 2012-03-31 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/05/20/20greenwire-senate-confirms-3-nominees-for-doe-1-for-inter-19116.html |title= Senate confirms 3 nominees for DOE, 1 for Interior |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |author= Ling, Katherine |date= 2009-05-20}}</ref> He previously served as the [[Attorney General of Idaho]] from 1991 to 1995, the first Native American elected to the position,<ref name="doi">[http://www.doi.gov/whoweare/larryechohawk.cfm "Profile: Larry Echo Hawk"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805035412/http://www.doi.gov/whoweare/larryechohawk.cfm |date=2012-08-05 }}, Department of the Interior Profile</ref> and spent two terms in the [[Idaho House of Representatives]]. In 2012, he was [[Calling (LDS Church)|called]] as a [[general authority]] of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/leader/larry-echo-hawk?lang=eng|title = Elder Larry J. Echo Hawk}}</ref> As of 2022, Echo Hawk is the last Democrat to have served as Attorney General of Idaho.