Editing Rob Bishop (section)

{{Short description|American politician (born 1951)}}
{{About|the politician|the baseball coach|Rob Bishop (baseball)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Rob Bishop
| image               = Rob Bishop official portrait.jpg
| office              = Ranking Member of the [[United States House Committee on Natural Resources|House Natural Resources Committee]]
| term_start          = January 3, 2019
| term_end            = January 3, 2021
| predecessor         = [[Raúl Grijalva]]
| successor           = [[Bruce Westerman]]
| office1             = Chair of the [[United States House Committee on Natural Resources|House Natural Resources Committee]]
| term_start1         = January 3, 2015
| term_end1           = January 3, 2019
| predecessor1        = [[Doc Hastings]]
| successor1          = [[Raúl Grijalva]]
| state2              = [[Utah]]
| district2           = {{ushr|UT|1|1st}}
| term_start2         = January 3, 2003
| term_end2           = January 3, 2021
| predecessor2        = [[Jim Hansen (Utah politician)|Jim Hansen]]
| successor2          = [[Blake Moore]]
| office3             = Chair of the [[Utah Republican Party]]
| term_start3         = May 10, 1997
| term_end3           = August 25, 2001
| predecessor3        = Frank Suitter<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/285576027/ |title=11 May 1997, 5 - The Daily Spectrum at Newspapers.com |website=Newspapers.com |access-date=9 July 2019 |archive-date=9 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709050258/http://www.newspapers.com/image/285576027/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
| successor3          = [[Joseph A. Cannon]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/471912201/ |title=26 Aug 2001, 2 - The Daily Herald at Newspapers.com |website=Newspapers.com |access-date=9 July 2019 |archive-date=9 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709050254/http://www.newspapers.com/image/471912201/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
| office4             = Speaker of the [[Utah House of Representatives]]
| term_start4         = 1992
| term_end4           = 1994
| predecessor4        = [[Craig Moody]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gllgDwAAQBAJ&q=Craig+Moody+Rob+Bishop+Mel+Brown+Speaker+Utah&pg=PT163 |title=Utah Politics and Government: American Democracy Among a Unique Electorate |isbn=9781496207838 |last=Brown |first=Adam R. |date=August 2018|publisher=U of Nebraska Press }}</ref>
| successor4          = [[Melvin R. Brown]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/285756999/|title=The Daily Spectrum from Saint George, Utah on November 13, 1994 · 1|date=13 November 1994|access-date=7 September 2019|archive-date=20 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020210410/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/285756999/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| office5             = Member of the<br />[[Utah House of Representatives]]
| term_start5         = 1978
| term_end5           = 1994
| predecessor5        = Willis Hansen (61st)<br />Stephen Holbrook (2nd)
| successor5          = Richard Ellertson (61st)<br />[[Peter C. Knudson]] (2nd)
| constituency5       = 61st district {{nowrap|(1978–1982)}}<br />2nd district {{nowrap|(1982–1994)}}
| birth_name          = Robert William Bishop
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1951|7|13}}
| birth_place         = [[Kaysville, Utah|Kaysville]], [[Utah]], U.S.
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse              = Jeralynn Hansen
| children            = 5
| education           = [[University of Utah]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| website             = 
| module              = {{Listen|pos=center|embed=yes|filename=Rep. Rob Bishop Speaks on BLM's Failed Survey of the Red River in Texas.oga|title=Rob Bishop's voice|type=speech|description=Rob Bishop criticizes failures of the [[Bureau of Land Management]] to properly survey the [[Red River of the South|Red River in Texas]]<br/>Recorded December 9, 2015}}
}}
'''Robert William Bishop''' (born July 13, 1951) is an American politician who served as the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] for {{ushr|UT|1}} from 2003 to 2021. A member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], he became the dean of [[United States congressional delegations from Utah|Utah's congressional delegation]] after the retirement of [[Orrin Hatch]] from the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] in 2019.

Prior to his congressional tenure, Bishop was a [[Utah House of Representatives|Utah State Representative]] (1978–1994), including two final years as Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives, as well as Chair of the [[Utah Republican Party]] (1997–2001). He was a candidate for [[Lieutenant Governor of Utah]] as [[Thomas Wright (Utah politician)|Thomas Wright]]'s running mate in the [[2020 Utah gubernatorial election|2020 election]].