Every day, during his 30 years as executive director of the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, Kenneth Wynn walked a fine line — always working to provide alcohol for legal adults, while appeasing the state’s predominantly Mormon population, which is taught to abstain from liquor.
With a no-nonsense attitude, a sharp sense of humor and an uncanny ability to mediate both sides of a hot-button issue, Wynn — who died Saturday at 82 — was often referred to as Utah’s “Mr. Liquor."
Born on May 24, 1936, in Thermopolis Wyo., Wynn was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.