Hall: Leader Of Idaho’s Rebel Pack

Perry Swisher was a rebel with many causes. He wasn’t born to tolerate the status quo. Swisher, who died Wednesday at 88, was one of the most colorful and effective politicians and journalists in Idaho history. During a lifetime in the thick of politics, he was a highly opinionated writer, a Republican state legislator, a Democratic state legislator and a candidate for both lieutenant governor and governor. (He was also night managing editor of the Lewiston Tribune.) He was a teacher in the formal way, lecturing on occasion at the university level, and a teacher in the informal way, hammering common sense into dozens of fledgling politicians and writers, including yours truly. He was an original thinker and he expected everyone he knew to be the same. He scoffed at people on the both the left and the right who practiced group-think and let their favorite mental mob tell them what to believe/ Bill Hall , Lewiston Tribune. More here .

Question: Who would you say is a larger-than-life Idahoan today?