Saving the Governor’s Bacon: Thomas L. Kane’s Political Defense of Alfred Cumming, 1859

WILLIAM P. MACKINNON is a Fellow and Honorary Life Member of the Utah State Historical Society. Since 1963 his articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in eighteen issues of Utah Historical Quarterly. He has been presiding officer of the Mormon History Association, the Santa Barbara Corral of the Westerners, Yale Library Associates, and Children’s Hospital of Michigan. He is an alumnus or veteran of Yale College, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, General Motors Corporation, and the US Air Force. He resides in Montecito, California.