Education
Weber State University. Utah State University.
United States representative politician
Weber State University. Utah State University.
Stallings also served in several other state and local political offices over the course of a 22-year political career. Born in Ogden, Utah, Stallings earned degrees from Weber State College, Utah State University and Colorado College. Beginning in 1969, Stallings taught history at Ricks College (now Brigham Young University-Idaho) in Rexburg, Idaho.
Idaho Democrats nominated Stallings to challenge four-term Republican incumbent George Hansen in 1982, but he lost in the general election.
In 1984, after Hansen was censured by the House of Representatives, Stallings defeated him in a hotly contested race by fewer than 200 votes. Despite representing a heavily Republican district, Stallings was re-elected three times by comfortable margins.
Stallings was the Democratic nominee in 1992 for an open seat in the United States Senate, but lost to Dirk Kempthorne, the popular two-term mayor of Boise. In 1993, Stallings was appointed United States Nuclear Waste Negotiator by President Bill Clinton and served in that capacity until the office was eliminated in early 1995.
The seat was open, as three-term incumbent Mike Crapo successfully ran for an open seat in the United States. Senate.
After leaving Congress, Stallings later served as executive director of the Pocatello Neighborhood Housing Services and later on the Pocatello, Idaho, City Council. Stallings was re-elected state Democratic chair in 2007 and resigned from both posts on December 20, 2007. On March 14, 2014, Stallings filed to run as the Democratic candidate for his old United States. House seat in Idaho"s Second Congressional District.
He was the Democratic nominee after the uncontested primary election, but was defeated by Simpson in the general election.
A conservative Democrat, Stallings unexpectedly won three votes for the presidential nomination from pro-life delegates to the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Stallings attempted to win his old House seat back in 1998, but was defeated by Mike Simpson of Blackfoot in the general election. In 2005, Stallings won both election as chairman of the Idaho Democratic Party and re-election to the Pocatello City Council.
