Art Rader is a former Nevada State legislator who resides in Las Vegas. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

T. David Horton was an attorney who moved to Pioche, Nevada in the mid-1960s to represent the interests of John Janney, president of Pioche Mines Consolidated Inc. When Janney died in 1967, he left property in Pioche to Horton.