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H. Jay Platt
Region IV
California, Nevada, Arizona, and Hawaii

H. Jay Platt is a
third-generation native Arizonan and cow/calf producer. He and his wife Tricia
are the parents of five children and live in Saint Johns, Ariz., where they own
and manage a family partnership cow/calf operation. The business owns and
leases ranches both in Arizona and New Mexico. Two sons also are involved in
the business which is solely cow/calf, with no stockers.
Attending Brigham Young
University and Arizona State University, Platt graduated from the latter with a
bachelor’s degree in finance and in 1978 received a doctor of jurisprudence from
Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, Calif. After working three years
in the tax department of an international accounting firm, he spent another
three years practicing law with a downtown Phoenix firm. Since 1984, he has
managed the family ranching operations.
Platt has been active in
Farm Bureau, having served as a county president, on the executive committee of
the Arizona Farm Bureau, and has given testimony before a congressional
subcommittee on behalf of the American Farm Bureau supporting repeal of the
death tax. He joined R-CALF USA in 2001, believing it to be the only
organization truly representing cattle producers and their interests.
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