Idaho Legislature

Rep. Bert Brackett, R-Rogerson

BOISE -- Idaho Rep. Bert Brackett has been chosen to fill the Idaho Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Tom Gannon of Buhl.

Gov. Butch Otter announced his selection on Thursday.

Brackett will also be the Republican nominee for the seat on the November general election ballot.

The 63-year-old rancher from Rogerson was serving his second term in the Idaho House of Representatives.

He is also a past president of the Idaho Cattle Association.

He was one of three people nominated by the District 23 Republican Central Committee to replace Gannon, along with Twin Falls consultant Stephen Hartgen and Jeanne Gannon, the widow of the former senator.

Gannon died of cancer on June 24.