As a business executive，he has held several leadership positions with Huntsman Corporation，most recently as Chairman and CEO of its holding company．His public service career includes serving as a White House staff assistant to President Ronald Reagan．Under President George H．W．Bush，he was deputy assistant secretary of commerce for trade development，deputy assistant secretary of commerce for East Asian and Pacific Affairs，as well as U．S．ambassador to Singapore（the youngest U．S．ambassador in a century）．He is fluent in Mandarin（普通话）．He also served as a deputy U．S．trade representative and U．S．trade ambassador under President George W．Bush．
Jon is a seventh generation Utahn，his wife Mary Kaye is a first generation Utahn．Together they have six children，one of whom is adopted from China．
State Bird州鸟
加利福尼亚鸥在1955年2月14日成为本州州鸟。这种鸥身长2英寸，羽毛是青灰色的，有时还有暗灰色的条纹。它们是空中飞行的高手，能随着风势调整飞行状态。它们是一种恬静的鸟，当人靠近它们时，它们既不对人们表现出对抗状态，也不表现出亲近状态。它们栖息在北美洲内陆的沼泽地区，冬天则迁徙到南美洲的太平洋沿岸。
The California gull（Larus californicus）became the official state bird on February 14，1955，when House Bill 51was signed into law by Gov．J Bracken Lee．The bill was introduced by Richard C．Howe a member of the House of Representatives．
The gull was first protected under Utah law because it is an insectivorous（食虫的）bird（feeds on insects）．It was protected along with the owl（［动］猫头鹰），hawk（鹰），lark（云雀，百灵鸟），whippoorwill（［鸟］北美夜鹰），thrush，swallow，snowbird，and any other insectivorous or song birds．The California gull was chosen as the state bird because it was credited with saving the pioneer’s crops from complete destruction in the summer of 1848．
Chiefly found in the interior regions，the California gull breeds on inland lakes from Canada south to Mono Lake，California，Great Salt Lake，and Yellowstone Lake，Wyoming．It winters along the Pacific Coast and inland in Utah，Oregon，and California．The mature California gull measures from twenty to twenty－three inches in length and has greenish yellow feet，a medium gray mantle，and a bill with an orange spot near the tip of the lower mandible（下颚）．The outer primaries are black，tipped with white，the first two with subterminal（几乎在末端的）white spots．
The gull is about two feet long．The color of this bird is pearly－blue．It is sometimes barred or streaked with blackish gray．Aeronautic wizards，gulls are gymnasts of the sky，making the seemingly impossible appear effortless（容易的）．They can appear motionless in midair（半空中）by catching wind currents with perfect timing and precision while positioning their bodies at just the right angle．They are quiet birds，considered quite beneficial by agriculturalists，and are usually gentle creatures，exhibiting neither antagonism（对抗）to nor fondness for man．
This is identification
Length：17inches
Wingspan（［空］翼展）：52inches
Medium－sized gull
Fairly large bill with distinct gonydeal angle
Fairly rounded forehead and smaller bill give more“gentle”appearance than Herring Gull
Adult alternate
Bright yellow bill with complete black ring distal（末梢的）to red spot at gonys［（鸟类）嘴底］
Bright yellow legs
Brown eye
White head，neck，breast，and belly
Gray back and upperwings
White tertial crescent（新月，月牙）
Black primaries with white tips and two white mirrors on outer primaries
Adult basic Like adult alternate but blurry brown streaking and spotting on head and nape（颈背）
Juvenile／First－year
Black bill quickly developing pale pink base
Wholly brown body plumage
Dark brown primaries
Dark brown secondaries and greater secondary coverts appears as double dark bar on trailing edge of wing in flight
Black legs quickly become pink
Dark outer primaries
Dark tail Pale rump（尾部）marked with bark bars and appears dark
Second－year Green－yellow bill with black tip
Pale head，neck，upper breast，and belly with brown streaking
Dull brown upperwing coverts
Dark brown primaries and tail
Gray back White tail with dark terminal band
State Flower州花
百合花在1911年3月18日成为本州州花。百合花在夏季草原和牧场上能长到6—8英寸。这种花对与犹他人很重要，不仅因为它很美丽，而且在于早期摩门教徒殖民者在冬天食物缺少的情况下，百合花的茎可以用于充饥。在摩门教徒殖民者来这里之前，印第安人也吃百合花的茎来维持生计。
The flower is important to Utah not only for its beauty but because the bulbs（鳞茎）were eaten by the early Mormon settlers during their first winter in the valley when food was scarce．The bulb，which is walnut－sized，was also eaten by the Indians before the Mormon settlers turned to it for sustenance and serves today as food for rodents（啮齿动物）and other animals．
The sego lily was made the official state flower of Utah on March 18，1911，when Senate Bill 225was signed into law by Gov．William Spry．The bill was introduced by William N．Williams，according to Heart Throbs of the West，after a census was taken of the state’s schoolchildren as to their preference for a state flower．
The sego lily grows six to eight inches high on open grass and sage rangelands（〈美〉牧场，放牧地）in the Great Basin during the summer months．This member of the mariposa family typifies the lilies，with sepals（萼片），petals（花瓣）and stamens（雄蕊）in the combinations of three with ivory－colored petals which may be tinted（带色彩的）from yellow to pink．A horizontal bar of darker color crosses the base of each petal within the flower cup．
The flower is important to Utah not only for its beauty but because the bulbs（鳞茎）were eaten by the early Mormon settlers during their first winter in the valley when food was scarce．The bulb，which is walnut－sized，was also eaten by the Indians before the Mormon settlers turned to it for sustenance and serves today as food for rodents（啮齿动物）and other animals．
State Flag州旗
犹他州1896年使用最初的旗帜，在1913年做了修改。此州旗底色为蓝色，上面有本州州印。展翅的鹰脚上抓着6把箭，象征保护和平防止战争。蜜蜂象征着勤劳，百合花象征着和平，有着褶皱的美国国旗象征祖国对本州的支持。“1847”年是摩门教徒先驱进入盐湖谷的时间，“1896”年是本州成为美国第45州的时间。
The original Utah State Flag was adopted by the State Legislature in 1896and revised（修改）in 1913．
The Utah State Flag has a blue background with the State Seal inscribed（记下）in the center and is easily distinguished from other state flags．
American Eagle with wings outspread（扩张的，延伸的），grasping six arrows in its talons（爪），symbolizes protection in peace and war．
Bee Hive is the symbol of hard work and industry．
Sego Lily is a symbol of peace．