Skylar deJong, an intern in the office of Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah), gets a lot of questions about his name.

Who wouldn’t, with a surname that bears a lowercase letter?

“My dad is a Dutch immigrant,” deJong explains.

The intern, who hails from Sandy, Utah, a Salt Lake City suburb, is like many Mormons living in Utah — he’s married and he’s just 23. He met his wife, Sabrina, on a church river trip and says he doesn’t feel too young to have tied the knot. They’ve been married just under a year.

Eventually, deJong wants to own his own business. “Be successful — that’s my ultimate goal,” he says, noting that he may want to take over his father’s position as president of a communications firm someday.  

Until that transpires, he plans to finish up his undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University, where he is a junior, followed by graduate school to earn a dual J.D./MBA degree. “Knowledge is power and I want to not have people screw with me,” he says, knowingly.

And apparently no one “screws with him” in Cannon’s office, despite the fact that he assumes the lowest post in the office and has the daily duties of giving tours, answering phones and helping respond to constituent mail.

When he started, deJong said, he knew it was “not going to be fun, but I don’t mind at all because I get to see everything.”  

He is most interested in seeing how an office works, rather than meeting Hill personalities. “I’m not really going crazy about seeing [Speaker] Nancy Pelosi [D-Calif.] or Sen. [Harry] Reid [D-Nev.],” he said.

As far as the presidential election is concerned, deJong says he wasn’t a big fan of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney just because he is a fellow Mormon.

“Part of my belief is to pray about who is going to be the best,” he says. “I will be praying about it.”