25 Apr 1889 – 13 Oct 1965
Grandson of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn
Son of Thomas Barthelemy Cardon and Lucy Smith
Philip V. Cardon, 76, Washington, D.C., first Utahn to hold a high United Nations post, died Wednesday morning in a Salt Lake City rest home of natural causes.
He was the father-in-law of Gov. Calvin L. Rampton. Mr. Cardon, former Utah State Agriculture College Experiment Station director, served as director-general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO) until his resignation March 6, 1956. He was named to the post in 1954, making his office in Rome Italy, with responsibility to 72 member nations.
Mr. Cardon began his professional career at Nephi in 1909 as as a USDA research superintendent.
In 1945 Mr. Cardon became the USDA’s bureau of research administrator, and in 1952 he was named USDA graduate school director.
He was UNFAO division director when he was elected to the organization’s top post in 1954 as the third person to hold the position.
He was a native of Logan. He graduated from Utah State Agricultural College in 1919. He also attended the University of California and held honorary degrees from USAC and Montana State College.
He received a USDA distinguished service award in 1948.
Mrs. Rampton canceled her Wednesday appearance at the Utah State University leadership school at Logan because of Mr. Cardon’s death.
Mr. Cardon was born April 25, 1889, at Logan, to Thomas B. and Lucy Smith Cardon. He married Leah Ivins in 1913.
Surviving are the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Calvin L. (Lucybeth) Rampton, Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Gerald (Margarett) Wessler, Gulfport, Miss., and a son, Phillip Jr., Wheaton, Md.; nine grandchildren; a brother, Ariel F., Los Altos, Calif., and two sisters, Mrs. Theodore (Grehta) Rechow, Logan, and Mrs. A. C. (Claire) Sullivan, Los Angeles.
Funeral services will be Friday at 10:30 a.m. at 260 E. South Temple, where friends may call from 10 to 10:30 a.m. prior to services. Burial wiJl be in Logan City Cemetery.
-Salt Lake Tribune, October 14, 1965, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
CARDON–Funeral services for Dr. Philip Vincent Cardon will be held Friday 10:30 a.m. in the Larkin Mortuary. Friends may call at the mortuary Friday 10 a.m. to time of services.
Interment. Logan City Cemetery, Friday 1 p.m. Funeral directors, Larkin Mortuary.
-Salt Lake Tribune, October 14, 1965, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Funeral services will be held Friday for Philip V. Cardon, 76, Washington, D. C., who died Wednesday in Salt Lake City.
He was the father-in-law of Gov. Calvin L. Rampton and was the first Utahn to hold a high United Nations post.
Cardon served as director-general of the U. N. Food and Agriculture Organization until his resignation March 6, 1956.
-Ogden Standard Examiner, October 14, 1965, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
