Ray DuChene Free (January 4, 1910 – August 9, 2002) was a major general in the U.S. Army Reserves, business owner, and a Republican[1] member of the Utah House of Representatives.
[3] After graduation, he received his commission in the army and spent a year as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe.
He served with the Seventh "Bayonet" Division during World War II in the Pacific Theater where he received the Purple Heart.
He was a member of the Great Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
[2] In 1953, he was chairman of the committee that investigated the Utah State Prison riot that happened earlier that year.