120. Contents of this file 1910 - 1966 – Volume 20 Biographies

Preface to Volume 20 Biographies Charles E. Larson – Charles E. Miller

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Volume 20

Biographies - II

By

3. Morris Richards

For

Arizona Legislative Council Preface to Volume 20

The biographies appearing in this volume of the History of the Arizona State Legislature are a continuation of those appearing in Volume 19.

Information about these short sketches is found in the Preface to Volume 19, which explains the reason that some of them are less complete than desired. This was because of the lack of time and money within the limitations of the primary purpose of the project, which was the writing of the narrative history of each legislative session from 1912 through 1966. CHARLES E. LARSON

Charles E. Larson, rancher and a Republican, was sent to the Senate of

the Fifth Legislature by the people of Coconino County, and served during 1921

and 1922. He became one of the busiest of the senators during his term , being on

nine standing committees. He was chairman of the committee on Roads and was

a member of Public Lands; Appropriations; Constitutional Mandates; Education;

Livestock and Forestry; Enrolling and Engrossing Printing and Clerks; and Public

Institutions. This was during the administration of Republican Governor Thomas

E. Campbell.

L ittle information is available about his personal life. He was said to

have been born in Sweden in 1881, and arrived in Arizona in 1908, engaging in

livestock raising in Coconino County.

Death came to Mr. Larson in Los Angeles, California, on April 14, 1937.

WALLACE HUNT LARSON

Wallace H. Larson, Lakeside businessman and educator, was elected to the

House of Representatives by the voters of his district in Navajo County to serve

in the Twenty-first Legislature in 1953 and 1954. During the two Regular

Sessions and one Special Session he was a member of the committees on Counties

and Municipalities; Education; and Fish and Game.

Wallace was the son of pioneers, A lof Larson and May Hunt Larson, and

was born in Snowflake, Arizona, on May 22, 1887. He attended the local schools,

and obtained an education sufficient to permit him to hold offices of

responsibility in his county. He served as Justice of the Peace in Holbrook, as

Navajo County Recorder, and as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, as well as a brief time as a deputy sheriff and a game warden.

-503- He and his wife, Augusta T. Larson, took time out to obtain degrees from

Arizona State College at Flagstaff, and served for more than 25 years in the schools in Lakeside, where he was principal of both grammar and high schools.

He married Augusta Treat on June 25, 1913, at Holbrook and they became parents of three boys and a girl.

In Lakeside he constructed and operated the town water supply company, and having acquired considerable land, as he approached retirement, he began promoting summer home sites.

After serving in the two Regular Sessions and the Special Session, he died suddenly at his home in Lakeside on June 20, 1954, leaving nearly six months of his term to run. His wife was named to fill the vacancy, but no sessions were held before she sought successfully the same seat in the Twenty-second

Legislature.

3. D. LEE

J . D. Lee, pioneer Graham County farmer and rancher, served in the

Second Legislature in the House of Representatives. He was on the committees on Agriculture and Irrigation, being chairman, and on Constitutional

Amendments and Referendum; Ways and Means; Livestock; and Public

Institutions.

John David Lee was said to be the first child bom in Parowan, Utah, of pioneer parents in the southern Utah community in 1851. He obtained what schooling was available there while he was growing up.

When he was nearly 30 years old he moved to Arizona. He drove cattle to northern Arizona, in an answer to a call from church authorities in Salt Lake

C ity and assisting in the settlement of some of the valleys in Apache County and

-504- at Luna, New Mexico. As his family increased, he moved into the upper G ila

Valley at Thatcher, where he engaged in farming and livestock raising.

He served as cashier of the Graham County State Bank through the financial difficulties of 1907. A fter the bank closed he returned to his agricultural pursuits.

He was married to Evaline (Ettie) Clark and became the father of four children by her. After she died he married Inez Hamblin, and was the parent of six more children— 10 in all.

3. D. Lee was active in his church, serving a mission in England and held various offices in the local ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

Saints (Mormon). He became a sciptorian of the Bible and held the office of high priest.

He died at his home in Thatcher on May 22, 1922, at the age of 71 years, honored by a large family among which were grandsons, Stuart L . and Morris K .

Udall, congressmen from Arizona.

NORMAN S. (SHORTY) LEE

Norman S. Lee was elected to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second

Legislatures from Maricopa County, serving in the House of Representatives from January 1953 to 3anuary 1957. While there he was a member of the committee on Public Institutions both terms, and held membership for one term each on the committees on Labor; Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs, of which he was vice chairman; County and Municipal Affairs; and Suffrage and Elections.

Mr. Lee was bom on November 23, 1897, in Whippany, New Jersey, son of

Harry E. Lee and Mary J . Lee. He had two years beyond high school at the

Eastern College of Therapy in New York City.

-505- He moved to Tucson in 1925 and later to Phoenix. During World War I he

served in the Army and in World War II in the U .S. Navy.

Norman Lee married on September 28, 1935, but at the time he was in the

legislature he had no children.

Mr. Lee was a member of the A. F. L. Carpenters' Union, and engaged in

building construction. Later he worked for the State Highway Department in

Phoenix, and retired after several years in sales and service for a television

company.

He served as commander of V.F.W . Post 3715, was senior vice commander

in District No. 3, and was a member of the American Legion.

When he died on October 23, 1968, in the Veterans' Administration

Hospital in Phoenix, he was survived by his wife, Olga.

GERTRUDE BRYAN LEEPER

Mrs. Gertrude Bryan Leeper, a Phoenix women's magazine writer, was

elected to the House of Representatives by the voters in her Maricopa County

district to serve in the Tenth Legislature in 1931 and 1932. During her term she

was on the committees on Child Welfare of which she was vice chairman; Public

Health; Pub'ic Institutions; and Enrolling and Engrossing, of which she was chairman.

Mrs. Leeper was born at Gainesville, Texas but grew up in Tennessee. She was the daughter of Porter Reese North and Louise Catherine North. Beyond high school she studied at Carson Newman College at Jefferson C ity , Tennessee, but did not complete the work for her degree.

She was married June 14, 1908 to Wylie M. Leeper at Dandridge,

Tennessee, and they were parents of one son.

-506- They moved to Arizona in 1918, where Mrs. Leeper became involved in

writing and editing. She became editor of the Public Health Magazine for

Arizona, and was a member of the National League of American Penwomen, as

well as helping to organize the Phoenix Writers' Club.

Her son, John Portrr Leeper, became a widely known artist, with studios in Phoenix.

In 1938 Mrs. Leeper collaborated with Maud Morris House, in compiling the volume, Whofs Who In Arizona, containing short biographies of hundreds of

Arizona prominent people. It was issued by an Arizona firm and printed by a

Phoenix printing house.

3. E. LEEPER

3. E. Leeper, mining company official at Jerome, was elected without a campaign, to the House of Representatives in the Second Legislature from

Yavapai County. He was chairman of the committee on Mines and Mining, and a member on the committees on Ways and Means* Corporations; and Fish and

Gam e.

Mr. Leeper was born in Sevier County, Arkansas, on March 19, 1872. He had little education beyond the common schools of the state, but was quick to learn and had qualities of character which won the confidence of others.

He was sent to Arizona where, according to the rumors of the time, there were opportunities for money to be made in mining. Mr. Leeper found what he considered a good investment for his backers at 3erome, adjacent to the United

Verde mine. The Arkansas and Arizona mining comany was incorporated, modern machinery obtained, and the property prepared for development. It was at this critical point that Mr. Leeper, without initiating the movement for his election to the Legislature, was victorious in both the Democratic primary election and the General Election of 1914.

A t the time of his election he was married and the father of four sons.

Little else is available in connection with his personal life.

S A M L . LENA

Sam Lena was appointed to the Arizona House of Representatives from

Pima County and served in the Twenty-seventh Legislature, completing the term of W. L . Cook, who resigned, and where he was a member of the committees on

Labor; Tourist and Industry Development; and Ways and Means.

(Subsequently he was reelected to the House in the Twenty-eighth

Legislature and was sent to the State Senate for the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and

Thirty-first Legislatures. He was elected to the Thirty-second Legislature but his wife died after the election and before the session convened. Because of the

necessity to be with his fam ily, he did not qualify for his Senate seat in 1975.

Thomas F . Moore, Jr . was named to fill his seat.)

Sam Lena was bom on January 23, 1921, at Evergreen, Louisiana, the son of Sam Lena (Leonardo N. Palumbo) and Dominica Dolce (Mamie Palimbo). He

attended elementary and high school in Port Arthur, Texas, graduating from high

school there. In 1941 he moved to Tucson for his health (asthma), and went to work in

1943 at Davis-Monthan Air Base in Tucson for the federal government.

In 1947 he entered business for himself and operated a leather goods store

until 1952, when he became a salesman for the Coca Cola distributor in Tucson.

He kept this post until 1955 when he again went into business for him self, this

-508- time as proprietor of a package liquor store, which he operated for 33 years,

until 1984. He was married on March 27, 1951, in Tucson to Gloria Gabusi, and they

became parents of Sam 3r., Katherine M., and John G. Gloria died November 11,

1974. He was remarried on November 6, 1986, to Tina Marie Feltm an.

In January 1975 a vacancy occurred on the Pima County Board of

Supervisors, and Sam Lena was appointed to the position. He was elected to the

board in 1976, again in 1980 and a third time in 1984, serving as chairman from

1981 to 1988. Sam Lena resigned from the Board of Supervisors on May 2, 1988, when he

was placed in charge of the Tucson office of Arizona Governor, Rose Moffard.

In Tucson he was on the advisory board of the Pima County Association

for Retarded Children; the board of directors of the Retail Licensed Beverage

Association; belonged to the Elks Club, the Pueblo Optimist Club and the Knights

of Columbus. MALCOLM L. LENTZ

Malcolm L. Lentz was elected by the voters of his legislative district in

Phoenix to the Arizona House of Representatives in 1954 and served in the

Twenty-second and Twenty-third Legislatures from January 1955 until January

1959. During his two terms he was a member of the standing committee on

Welfare both terms, and served one term each on the committees on

Appropriations; Rules; County and Municipal Affairs; Planning and Development,

and Fish and Game. Mr. Lentz was born in Phoenix on May 13, 1921, to D r. John Adolph Lentz,

pioneer Phoenix dentist, and Harriet Irene Alien Lentz. He graduated from

-509- Emerson School in Phoenix and then went to Phoenix Union High School where he graduated in 1937. He worked his way through Pomona College at Claremont,

California, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, Magna

Cum Laude, before serving in the United States Navy, Amphibious Forces with the Pacific Fleet, from 1942 to 1946, retiring with the Rank of Captain in the

Naval Reserve.

After being discharged from the military service, he attended Harvard

Business College where he received a Veteran's Certificate.

For two years he was an executive for the Bridgford Company of Ontario,

Oregon, a large frozen food processor, and then in 1949 became the president and principal owner of corporations engaged in wholesale air conditioning and export business. In 1967 he founded and became president of Hydroculture, Inc., and AD CO

International, Inc., Glendale, Arizona, where he directed over 400 people at one time. The companies laid the foundation for a world-wide industry in controlled environment agriculture.

He was active in the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, the Phoenix Sales

Executive Club, and was a worker in United Fund drives and with the Young

Republican League.

In 1988 he was living in retirement in Phoenix.

H. 3. (DUFFY) LEWIS

H. 3. (Duffy) Lewis, Douglas sales representative, was appointed to the

Arizona House of Representatives upon the resignation of M. A. Gray and took his seat for Cochise County as the First Special Session of the Fourteenth

Legislature, convened on September 23, 1940. He was named to the committees

-510- on Labor; Judiciary; Resolutions and Memorials; Public Health; and Suffrage and

Elections.

Mr. Lewis then stood for election and thereafter served in the House five

terms—in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth; Twenty-first, and Twenty-third

Legislatures. During this tenure he was a member of committees on Labor;

Highways and Bridges; Mines and Mining Reconstruction and Employment;

Public Institutions; Public Lands; Judiciary; Fish and Game; Welfare;

Municipalities; and Suffrage and Elections.

Herbert J . (Duffy) Lewis was born at Bisbee, Arizona, on April 27, 1901.

He was the son of William J . Lewis and Lena Hess Lewis and received his early

schooling in Bisbee, finishing high school before going to work.

He was married in Lordsburg, New Mexico, in 1924 to Mildred Campbell and became the father of two daughters and a son.

He followed the mercantile business throughout his working life, and retired and lived in Douglas during his later years.

He died in Douglas on May 5, 1982, a month after his 81st birthday, survived by his daughters, Mrs. Betty Barnhart and Mrs. Nancie Pieper, his son,

Herbert, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

J. TOM LEWIS

J . Tom Lewis was elected to the First Arizona State Legislature as a member of the House of Representatives, being an avowed defender of the rights of organized labor. He was elected from the mining county of G ila, where he engaged in mining for many years. He served also in the Sixth Legislature.

In the First Legislature he was chairman of the committee on Labor, and a member of the committee on Mines and Mining in the Regular Session. For the

-511- Special Sessions he also was a member of the committees on Constitutional

Mandates and Public Health and Statistics.

In the Sixth Legislature he was chairman of the committee on Mines and

Mining and a member of the committees on Labor, and Efficient Government.

3. Tom Lewis was born in 1871 at Hobart, Tasmania, the son of F . T.

Lewis, pioneer of that island country. He moved to the United States in 1898

and at once chose G ila County for his home where he could become a miner as he

had been in his native land.

He early espoused the cause of organized labor and became an

acknowledged leader of the mine workers, being elected president of the Globe

Union on three different occasions. He also served as a delegate to the national organization.

O f particular interest to him was the safety of the miners, and he

acquainted himself with conditions of all the mines in Arizona where hazards might exist.

After his legislative service, he was appointed safety engineer for the

Arizona Industrial Commission, in which post he was serving when he was involved in an automobile accident on May 10, 1934.

He died in St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix May 23, 1934, closing an illustrious career during which he worked for more than 20 years for the Miami

Copper Company. He was the- father of two children.

J . T. LEWIS

John Thom as Lewis, a Globe building contractor, was elected to the House of Representatives by the people of his Gila County legislative district, in the

Ninth and Tenth Legislatures. During his two terms he was a member both times

-51 2- of the committees on Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; County

Affairs; Petitions and Memorials; Labor; and chairman of Capitol Building and

Grounds.

Mr. Lewis was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, son of John Lewis and

Marnerva (Minerva) Howell Lewis. He regretted that he had but three months of

formal schooling. He was married on November 11, 1885, at San Marcos, Texas,

and became the father of three girls and two boys.

He moved from Texas to Arizona in 1904, establishing himself in Globe where he developed a contracting and building business in which he engaged for some 28 years.

In 1931 he engaged in large-scale farming in the neighborhood of

Coolidge, under the San Carlos project, in the Casa Grande Valley.

Mr. Lewis died at his home in Globe on October 9, 1949.

OR ME LEWIS, SR .

Omne Lewis, Sr., was elected to the House of Representatives in the

Ninth Legislature from Maricopa County. He was a member of the committees on Agriculture and Irrigation; Corporations; Judiciary; and Public Institutions.

Orme Lewis was bom in Phoenix on January 7, 1903, the son of Ernest

William Lewis, who served as Associate Justice of the Arizona Territorial

Supreme Court, and Ethel Orme Lewis. He obtained his early education in the public schools of Globe and Phoenix and then went to Stanford University at Palo

Alto, California, before obtaining his Bachelor of Laws degree from George

Washington University at Washington, D .C . in 1926. He was admitted to the

Arizona Bar in that same year and began his practice in Phoenix.

-513- Mr. Lewis married Barbara Cunningham Smith and they became the

parents of a son, Orme Lewis, Jr., in 1935. He became a partner of the

important law firm of Lewis, Roca, Scoville and Beauchamp, with offices in

downtown Phoenix.

Orme Lewis was a leader in Republican politics in Arizona, serving as

State Republican Committee Chairman for a term, leading the Arizona

delegation to the National Republican Convention in 1948. In 1953 he was

appointed, under the Eisenhower administration, to be Assistant Secretary of the

Interior, in charge of such areas as land management, Bureau of Indian A ffairs,

National Park Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service, areas in which he was familiar because of his activities in Arizona and the West.

He served in that office for two years before resigning and returning to his private law practice in Arizona, where he was active for many years, tapering off as he reached his 80's.

C . W. L1LLYWHITE

Charles Wilden Lillywhite was elected by the people in the Mesa area of

Maricopa County to represent them in the Fourth Legislature in the House of

Representatives, serving from January 1919 to January 1921.

During his term he was a member of the committees on Public Lands;

Banking and Insurance; Agriculture and Irrigation; and Livestock.

Mr. Lillywhite was born in Beaver City, Beaver County, Utah, on

December 26, 1874, and moved with his family to Arizona in 1879, by way of the

Hole-in-the-Rock migration into southeastern Utah at Bluff. The family arrived at Woodruff, Arizona, when C . W. was six years old. Not long thereafter his

-514- father died, leaving the widow and seven children. This placed the burden of fam ily support on his shoulders and he assumed that responsibility.

He later moved to Mesa where he became a farmer, and except for 12 years he spent in Morelos, Sonora, Mexico, he spent his life in building and promoting Arizona. He became assistant superintendent of the Salt River Valley

Water Users Association, in which office he served for eight years.

He married Margaret Coplan on October 5, 1893, and became the father of a large fam ily. When he died at Mesa on June 16, 1947, at the age of 73 years, he was survived by his wife, five daughters and four sons.

MILTON O. (MO) LINDNER

Milton O . Lindner, Clarkdale automobile dealer, was appointed by the

Yavapai County Board of Supervisors to fill the legislative vacancy created by the death of A . C . McCoy on February 28, 1955. He was sworn into the House on

March 4.

He was assigned to the standing committees on Labor; Appropriations;

Planning and Development; and Suffrage and Elections. He was thereafter elected to the House for the Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth

Legislatures.

During his three elective terms, he was a member for two terms each on the committees on County Affairs; Judiciary, of which he was vice chairman one term; Livestock and Public Lands; Planning and Development, of which he was chairman one term; and Suffrage and Elections. He was a member for one term each on Welfare; Public Institutions; Rules; and Ways and Means.

M. O. Lindner was born in D etroit, Michigan, on January 8, 1898, the son of John F. Lindner and Lorena Nell Burrus Lindner. He received a grammar

-515- school education in Douglas, Arizona, his family having arrived in Arizona in

1900 when he was a small child. He began work as a Western Union messenger

and then as a drug store clerk and delivery boy before becoming a bell hop at the

Gadsden Hotel in Douglas. Later he was a bell hop in an E l Paso hotel.

In 1916 he returned to Douglas to work in a store, moved to Phoenix in

1919 again as a drug store employe. He worked for the State Highway

Department and made acquaintances that brought a job in the office of the

Cochise County Engineer. In 1925 he opened a service station in Douglas, but a year later moved to Jerom e and became affiliated with an automobile agency.

In 1930 he became a partner in the Clarkdale Motor Company. He obtained total ownership in 1948, at which time his son became his partner.

He was active in Democratic politics after moving to Yavapai County and served at the local, county and state levels. He was a strong supporter of community affairs and belonged to fraternal and civic organizations.

Mr. Lindner married K atie Hickaman in Douglas on Ju ly 4, 1921, and became the father of three children, a daughter and two sons. Both sons eventually became partners with their father in the Chevrolet agency and the

General Motors parts outlet in the Verde Valley.

Mr. Lindner died at Douglas on December 21, 1964, at the age of 66 years.

DAVID F. LINDSAY

David F. Lindsay was elected to the House of Representatives from Pima

County, and served in 1953 and 1954 in the Twenty-first Legislature. During his term he was a member of the A dm ini strati on, and the Highways and Bridges committees.

-516- Mr. Lindsay was born at Hartford, Connecticut, on December 1, 1910, son

of Thomas and Ellen Lindsay. A fter his basic schooling, he attended Belview

College in Omaha, Nebraska.

He married Edna I. Maxey of Tucson on September 28, 1942, at Las Vegas,

Nevada. They became the parents of three children.

His career included 23 years in the Army, becoming an officer in the

Army Air Force; service as a deputy sheriff for a year, and employment for a time with the Tanner Motor Tours.

At the time of his legislative service, he listed himself as a retired Air

Force O fficer, and a Democrat.

No additional information about him has been located.

ALVIN (AL) LINDSEY

A1 Lindsey, Scottsdale insurance man and a staunch Dem ocrat, was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives for the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Legislatures, from January 1943 to January 1949, and again to the Twentieth Legislature for service during 1951 and 1952, from Maricopa

County. After moving to Yum a, he was elected to the T wenty-third Legislature and served during 1957 and 1958 from that county.

During his five terms (10 years) he was a member of the Banking and

Insurance committee all five terms; of Military Affairs for three terms, of which he was chairman twice; and of Rules; Appropriations; and Ways and Means for two terms each. He was a member for one term each on the committees on

Corporations; Planning and Development; Reconstruction and Unemployment;

County Affairs; and Agriculture and Irrigation.

-51 7- Alvin Lindsey was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on May 2, 1901, son of

Alfred M. Lindsey and Emma Herbert Lindsey. He completed elementary and higfi school in Vicksburg and then studied commercial law, banking and business economics at the Tulane College of Commerce in New Orleans. While in the naval servioe during World War 1, he studied radio at Harvard University and radio telephone in New London, Connecticut. He was with a destroyvr flotilla in

Atlantic waters along the European coast.

After his discharge from the Navy, he engaged in banking until 1925 and then was in insurance thereafter, moving to Arizona in 1936 as sales manager for

Postal Benefit Insurance Company. He opened his own insurance agency in

Scottsdale in 19

Mr. Lindsey was married in New Orleans in 1936 to Rosa Marie Oubre on his 35th birthday, and they became the parents of a daughter, Dolores Laverne in

1937.

He was a member of the American Legion, Masonic Lodge, and Shrine.

Before moving to Yuma he was on the Maricopa County Planning and Zoning

Commission.

JOSEPH H. LINES

Joseph H. Lines of Graham County enjoyed long tenure in the State

Legislature, serving in the Second, Third, Fourth and Tenth Legislatures in the

House of Representatives, and in the Fifth and Seventh in the Senate.

In the Legislature he served on many committees during the twelve years of service. In the Second Legislature he served on Suffrage and Elections;

Judiciary; Banking and Insurance; Agriculture and Irrigation; and Public Lands. In the Third he became a member of Appropriations; Ways and Means; and Public

Lands. In the Fourth he served on Rules; Public Institutions; and Public Lands.

When he moved to the Senate he became a member of the Finance;

Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; Education; Agriculture and

Forestry; and Public Institutions committees. His busiest term was the Seventh

in the Senate when he was chairman of Agriculture and Forestry and a member

of Finance; Methods of Business; State Institutions; Appropriations; Public

Defense; Employees and Supplies; and Printing and Clerks committees.

Joseph Henry Lines was born on October 24, 1870, in Goshen, U tah, son of

Henry Lines and Emily Weech. He received a common school education in Utah

and Arizona, where he arrived at the age of 11 with his fam ily.

He married Sarah Elizabeth Ferrin at Thatcher, on October 6, 1891. He

became a farmer and later he and a brother operated a general merchandise

store in Pima from 1897 until 1932. He served two terms as justice of the peace

in Pim a.

He moved to Mesa in 1940 where he spent the last years of his life.

Mr. and Mrs. Lines, parents of 12 children, observed their Golden Wedding

anniversay in October 1941. He died in Mesa less than a month before his 91st

birthday, at the home of one of his six daughters, on September 21, 1961, after an abundant life as a church leader, and businessman and public servant.

KAL W. LINES

Kal W. Lines, who called himself a Safford cattle buyer, was elected to the House of Representatives from Graham County in the Seventeenth

Legislature and served in 1945 and 1946. He was a member of the committees on Agriculture and Irrigation; Appropriations; Education; and Livestock.

-5 1 9 - Kal was born on December 16, 1916, at Pima, Arizona, the son of Milton

Lines and Mary Lambert Lines. He completed elementary and high schools in

Pima and attended the Gila College before going to the University of Arizona

where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1937.

Kal had not married by the time he served in the Legislature, but his career to that time included operating the office for American Automobile

Association for Graham County from 1939 to 1941, and farming and cattle

trading until 1945. (Afterward he became an attorney and practiced in

San Francisco.)

(Later information regarding his post-legislative career has not been available.)

MILTON LINES

Milton Lines served more than eight terms in the House of

Representatives from Graham County between the time he was appointed to fill an unexpired term in the Seventeeth Legislature in 1945 and the time he finished his term in the T wenty-fifth Legislature in 1962.

As the First Special Session of the Seventeenth Legislature opened on

September 10, 1945, a letter was read in the House from Kal W. Lines of Graham

County, tendering his resignation. This was accepted, and the following day the credentials of his father, Milton Lines, who had been appointed by the Graham

County Board of Supervisors to fill the vacancy, were accepted. Milton Lines took the oath of office on September 11 and was seated that day.

He was named to the committees on Livestock; Agriculture and Irrigation;

Education; and Public Lands, on which he served for the three special sessions of the Seventeenth Legislature.

-520- During his eight elective terms he was on the committees on Livestock

and Public Lands and Appropriations, seven terms each; on Agriculture and

Irrigation, six terms; and on County Affairs, four terms. For one term each he

was on the committees on Public Institutions, and Ways and Means.

Milton Lines, when he arrived at the Legislature, called himself a retired

farm er, merchant, dairyman and automobile deader.

He was born in Pim a, Arizona, on duly 26, 1883, son of Henry Lines and

Emily Weech Lines and a brother of another legislator, Joseph H. Lines. He

attended the Pima public schools.

He married Mary Lambert on January 30, 1905, and to them nine children

were bom. After she died, he married C lella C lu ff Hundley, and they became

the parents of twin girls.

Mr. Lines served on the Pima Board of School Trustees for six years and

was a Pima city councilman for six years. He also was on the board of the

Irrigation D istrict. In addition, he was bishop of the Pima Ward of the Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for three years.

His career included dairying in the Clifton-Morenci-Metcalf area, mercantile and garage business in Pim a, and farming in the Gila Valley of

Arizona and the Imperial Valley of California.

Milton Lines died on August 6, 1969, while on a vacation at Pomona,

California, at the age of 86 years.

H. H. LINNEY

H. H. Linney, an attorney in Prescott, was elected to the First Arizona

State Legislature from Yavapai County, and served as Speaker of the House in the Second and Third Special Sessions.

-5 2 1 - In the Regular Session of the First Legislature he served on the

committees on Judiciary; Education; and Good Roads, being chairman of the

latter.

In the Special Sessions, when it was determined that a new speaker might

be elected for each session, Mr. Linney ran for and was elected Speaker of the

House, and continued to serve during the Second and the Third Special Sessions in

1913, being chairman of the Rules committee.

Hartwell Henderson Linney was born in Danville, Kentucky about 1878 and

grew up there, being graduated from Danville's Centre College in 1902, and later from the Law College of Central University of Kentucky. He was admitted to the Bar of Kentucky and of Arizona, the latter on January 1, 1909, and at the time of his election was enjoying a prosperous practice.

He was married in August of 1911 to Miss Ethel Wood of Greenville,

Illinois, who was a graduate of the University of Illinois.

In Prescott he was interested in public affairs and was a strong member of the Prescott Chamber of Commerce and served as vice president of the Northern

Arizona Bar Association.

M. M. LITTLE

M. M. Little, a Morenci Democrat, served in the House of Representatives from Greenlee County in the Fourth Legislature during 1919 and 1920. While there he was a member of the committees on Judiciary; Corporations; Enrolling and Engrossing Mines and Mining and Elections.

Mr. Little introduced four bills in the House, only one of which reached the Governor. It pertained to the practice of dentistry. The others pertained to

-522- the age for child employment, slight changes in the election code, and an

amendment to the laws governing county affairs.

Mr. Little le ft no record of his personal life nor information concerning

his career.

LYNN LOCKHART

Lynn Lockhart, Apache County cattleman and petroleum products

distributor, was elected to the Arizona State Senate in November, 1954, at the

first election at which two senators were chosen from each county. Thereafter

he was elected to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Legislatures to serve

from January 1957 to January 1961.

During his three terms in the upper house, he served on Important

standing committees. He was a vice chairman all three terms of the committee

on Fish and Game; member all three terms of Banking and Insurance; Military

and Veterans' Affairs; Livestock and Public Lands, of which he was chairman one

term; and Highways and Bridges. He served two terms each on Suffrage and

Elections, one of which he was chairman; and Mines and Mining. He was

chairman of Tourist and Industry Development for one term.

Lynn Lockhart was bom on October 22, 1894, at Dardanelle, Arkansas, son

of C . H. Lockhart and Jesse O . Lockhart. He completed his elementary and high school grades before going to work.

He married Esther Marie Lockhart at Yuma, Arizona, July 12, 1926,

having arrived in Arizona in 1920. They became the parents of three boys and

one girl.

Mr. Lockhart, who had been president of the Lockhart Oil Company in

Starr, Texas, continued his interest in oil after reaching Arizona, being one of those who did exploring in northeastern Arizona, and later served a term on the

-523- Arizona Oil and Gas Commission. He also operated a cattle ranch near Nutrioso,

Arizona.

Interested in Democratic politics, he served as chairman of the State

Dem ocratic Central Committee in 1934, was a member of the Arizona Industrial

Commission, and served six years on the Arizona Game and Fish Commission.

He managed the successful campaign of Robert T. Jones for the Governorship in

1938.

After several months of failing health, Lynn Lockhart died in Phoenix on

July 29, 1968, at the age of 73 years.

LORNA LOCKWOOD

Lorna Elizabeth Lockwood, daughter of Judge A. C. Lockwood, was

elected to the Arizona House of Representatives from Maricopa County in the

Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Eighteenth Legislatures.

During her six years in the lower house, she served on the Judiciary

committee all three terms — as vice chairman one term and chairman two

terms. She was a member of the committees on Constitutional Amendments and

Referendum and Rules for two terms each. Other committees on which she

served one term each were Child Welfare; Education; Public Health; Highways

and Bridges; Ways and Means; and Banking and Insurance.

Lorna Lockwood was born on March 24, 1903, in Douglas, Arizona where

her mother was a school teacher. He father was Alfred Collins Lockwood, an

attorney and Democratic Party leader, and her mother was Maude Lincoln

Lockwood.

Lorna completed her elementary and high school education and then entered the University of Arizona where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts

-524- degree in 1923 and her Doctor of Laws in 1925. She opened her practice in

Phoenix where she gained important experience in private practice and as an

Assistant State Attorney General.

She spent some time in Washington, D.C., as a secretary to John R.

Murdock, Arizona congressman. She began her first term as Judge of the

Maricopa County Superior Court in 1951 and served two four-year terms. She

began her first term as Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court in 1961 and

continued in that office until she voluntarily retired in May 1975.

In 196k and 1965 she was recommended to President Lyndon Johnson for

appointment on the United States Supreme Court as the possible first woman on

that court.

Miss Lockwood died in Phoenix on September 23, 1977, at the age of 7k

years. She did not marry.

J . EDWIN LOVE

J. Edwin Love, drycleaner, was elected to the House of Representatives from Maricopa County to serve in the Twelfth Legislature during 1935 and 1936.

He was a member of the standing committees on Accounting and Business

Methods; Labor; Livestock; and Mines and Mining.

Mr. Love was born on January Ik, 1897 at Partridge, Kansas, son of W. R.

Love and Pernicy R . Love. He was married January 12, 1935 to Birthina Evans.

They had no children.

He was a military veteran, member of the American Legion, and of the

Disabled American Veterans. He also belonged to the Masonic orders.

He was elected on the Dem ocratic ticket.

No additional information about his life was found.

-525- 3. LEE LOVELESS

3. Lee Loveless, Chandler reed estate man, was elected to the House of

Representatives from Maricopa County to serve in the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh

Legislatures, from 3anuary 1929 until 3anuary, 1933. Mr. Loveless resigned on

3anuary 12, and was replaced by Frank Beer, Attorney at Law, who was

appointed by the Board of Supervisors to fill the vacancy.

Mr. Loveless, during the Ninth and Tenth Legislatures was a member of

the committees on Agriculture and Irrigation, being chairman in the Tenth; and

3udiciary; and Printing and Clerks both terms.

Mr. Loveless was bom at Beardstown, Tennessee, February 1, 1886, to

Ford George Loveless and Dora Burns Loveless. After his basic schooling he obtained a degree from the Robertson Christian College at Henderson,

Tennessee.

He moved to Arizona in 1912, and on September 26, 1928, he married

Bessie Belmont Barkley at Phoenix.

Mr. Loveless served two terms as 3ustice of the Peace at Chandler, and

was in the business of buying and selling land. His resignation from the

Legislature was to enable him to "rescue his business and support his family," he said.

He also served as Mayor of Chandler.

He died on 3une 8, 1974, at Chandler at the age of 88 years.

HENRY A . LOV1N

Henry A. Lovin, former sheriff of Mohave County, and member of the

Constitutional Convention of 1910 from that county, was elected to the State

Senate in the First and Second State Legislatures.

-526- In the Senate he served on the committees on Mines and Mining (twice);

Public Service Corporations; Constitutional Mandates (twice); Constitutional

Amendments and Referendum; Suffrage and Elections (twice); Militia and Public

Defense (twice); Finance; and Printing and Clerks.

Henry A. Lovin was born in Richmond County, North Carolina, on June 27,

1865. He arrived in Arizona in 1887, settling first at Phoenix where he and W.

W. Ward were credited with setting out the first orange grove. In 1893 he went to Kingrnan where he established a mercantile business after spending two years in Prescott. In Kingman he also engaged in mining operations, being one of the original locators and owners of the famous Gold Road Mining Company properties.

He was elected sheriff for two terms and later served six years on the

Mohave County Board of Supervisors. Still later he owned ranches at Frances

Creek, Grand Valley and Chloride, retiring from the cattle business in 1930.

He married Ruby Roe, a native of Nevada, but she died in 1911. He married Cora Thompson of Louisiana in 1923.

Henry Lovin died in Kingman on December 30, 1931, at the age of 66, while still active in public affairs, being chairman of the county Board of

Supervisors at the time of his death.

W. I. (IKE) LOW RY

W. I. Lowry, Phoenix insurance man, was a member of the House of

Representatives from Maricopa County in the Twenty-second, Twenty-third and

Twenty-fourth Legislatures. While there he served on the committee on

Banking, Insurance and Corporations all three terms. He was a member of the committees on Fish and Game and Administration two terms; and for one term

-527- each on the committees on Municipalities; Public Health; and Livestock and

Public Lands.

Mr. Lowry was born on March 26, 1917, at Gulfport, Mississippi, son of

Robert E. Lowry and Emma Helen Lowry. After graduating from Gulfport High

School, he attended Perkinston Junior College, and the Naval Aviation School at

Norfolk, Virginia.

He married Evelyn D . Kreger at Norfolk, Virginia, on April 17, 1939, and they became the parents of six children.

Mr. Lowry became an aviation engineer and pilot, and in the Navy was sent to New Orleans to help build the PBY flying boats for use in World War II.

He then was moved to Tucson to assist in rebuilding the 6-2*1 bombers for the

Naval Service.

The Lowrys arrived in Arizona about 19*t3, and he became involved in the insurance business, eventually becoming president of the American Buyers Life

Insurance Company and chairman of the board of the American Buyers Credit

Company.

When the war was over he stayed in Arizona, being affiliated with aviation affairs for 10 years before entering the life insurance business. He was associated with Commercial Life Insurance Company at Tucson before moving to

Phoenix where he began his own firm in December 19*18.

This enterprise flourished and Mr. Lowry became a leader in the insurance industry in Arizona, and beyond. He had a staff of 50 employees at one time.

He was one of the founders of Grand Canyon College in Phoenix, and was active in promoting the Phoenix Y .M .C .A . and its building program.

He was living in Phoenix in 1989.

-528- HOMER C. LUDDEN

Homer C. Ludden was a member of the House of Representatives from

Maricopa County in the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Legislatures. During his three terms he was a member of the committee on Agriculture and Irrigation all three times and chairman once. He was on the committee on Accounting and Business

Methods, and Public Lands two terms each. He was a member of the Suffrage and Elections; Public Institutions; and Petitions and Memorials one term each.

Homer Ludden, a Glendale real estate man, was bom on November 27,

1880, at Surprise, Nebraska, son of Charles W. Ludden and Emma Jane Clark

Ludden. He graduated from high school, attended Nebraska State Normal School and the University of Nebraska.

He arrived in Glendale in 1905 and operated the Ludden Realty in

Glendale with operations also at Yarnell, El Mirage and Surprise, Arizona.

He was one of the early rural mail carriers in Arizona, and assisted with the establishment of the first rural route in Glendale in 1912.

Later he was prominent in community affairs and served as president of the Verde River Irrigation and Power District.

He died at the home of his daughter, Kathryn Robb, in Phoenix on

March 24, 1958 at the age of 77 years.

O. C . LUDWIG

O. C. Ludwig was elected to the House of Representatives in the Sixth

Legislature, serving in 1923 and 1924 from Maricopa County. He was a member of the committees on Corporations; Judiciary; Rules; and Constitutional

Amendments and Referendum. Mr. Ludwig was a native of Arkansas, where he received his elementary

and secondary schooling before obtaining his law degree at the University of

Arkansas. He was admitted to the bar in 1913.

He enlisted in the U .S. Naval Reserves during World War 1, and served on

active duty for nearly a year. He became a member of the American Legion.

He married and was the father of several children.

A well known attorney by 1926, having maintained offices in the Heard

Building in Phoenix and practiced in Arizona since 1916, he announced for

Attorney General of Arizona in the primary election of 1926. In that election he

ran third behind John T. Murphy and Arthur T. LaPrade.

During the time he was in the Legislature he was the author of several bills that became laws. He opposed the Boulder Dam project, preferring a dam higher on the Colorado River in order to permit greater development of the river. He voted against the Colorado River Compact.

He expressed himself in favor of jury duty for women, urged taxing farmers only on their profits, urged greater protection for deposits of small businessmen in banks, and favored encouragement by the state to homesteaders and home owners. He saw development of the state as the source of greater wealth and lightening the tax burden of all.

RALPH A. LYKE

Ralph Alger Lyke, a Prescott newspaperman, was elected to the Eleventh

Legislature from Yavapai County and served in the House of Representatives on the committees on Child Welfare and Suffrage and Elections, being the vice chairman of both.

-530- He also was a member of the committees on Livestock; Printing and

Clerks; and Ways and Means for one term each.

Mr. Lyke was born in Michigan on January 22, 1891, and moved to

Prescott in 1922. He was the son of Lester C . Lyke and Nellie C . Lyke. He

finished high school and attended business college.

On April 9, 1925, he was married at Prescott and became the father of

one son.

In Prescott, in addition to newspaper work, he was a salesman and businessman.

He moved from Prescott to Phoenix where he became the head of the Gas

Tax Refund Division of the State Highway Department, spending 20 years in that employment.

He was active in establishing the American Legion in Arizona, being one of the first organizers to devote his time to the advancement of that organization.

Mr. Lyke died on April 20, 1956, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Phoenix.

WILLIAM D. LYMAN

William D. (Bill) Lyman was elected to the House of Representatives in the Twenty-seventh Legislature from Yavapai County, serving in 1965 and 1966.

(Subsequently he was reelected and served in the Twenty-eighth Legislature.)

During his term he was a member of the committees on Highways and

Bridges; Livestock and Public Lands; Natural Resources; and Tourist and Industry

Development.

-53 1- William DeVoo Lyman was born on June 11, 1914, at Muskegon, Michigan,

son of Edward Strong Lyman and Sara Jane Hart Lyman. After finishing

elementary and high school at Prescott, Arizona, he studied for three years in

college.

He married Etta Virginia Fuller on June 20, 1936, at Flagstaff, Arizona.

They became the parents of three children. He operated the motor freight

terminal in Prescott for 16 years, five of which were as agent for Mayflower.

Earlier he had been an operator of a hydro electric plant for six years and served

in the Army from 1941 to 1946. His management of the motor freight operation was from 1946 until 1961, when he became a partner in the storage and transfer business where he was involved when he was elected to the Legislature.

He was a member of the Republican Party.

Mr. Lyman served in the Army in World War II, graduated from Arizona

State University, and was active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

Saints. After his retirement he moved to Mesa where he spent five years as a worker in the Mormon Temple.

In addition to his legislative service, he also was assessor of Yavapai

County from 1969 through 1976.

Mr. Lyman died April 27, 1987, at his home in Mesa, leaving his widow, three daughters, a son, 19 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

A. R. LYNCH

Andrew Richmond Lynch, an attorney at law, practicing in Graham and

Greenlee Counties, was a member of the Arizona Constitutional Convention in

1910and of the First Arizona State Legislature in 1912, 1913 and 1914.

-5 3 2 - Mr. Lynch was born in Covington, Kentucky, in 1870. He was the son of

Cornelius and Catherine Lynch, who took him at the age of three to Kansas,

where they remained until 1891. The fam ily then moved to Colorado.

After 13 years in Colorado and after young Lynch had graduated from the

Colorado State Normal School and Colorado State University, he moved to

Arizona in 1904, settling at Saffqrd. In the meantime, in 1899, he married

Jennie E. Youngclaus, and they became the parents of four children.

In 1907 and 1908 Mr. Lynch served as county school superintendent of

Graham County. This gave him a wide acquaintanceship and he was chosen as a delegate from Graham County to the Constitutional Convention in 1910. After valuable service there, the people of his county sent him to the House of

Representatives in the First State Legislature, where he was a candidate for

Speaker of the House, losing that battle to Sam Bradner of Cochise County.

Until the House was organized, he was selected as Acting Speaker. He was a member of the Judiciary; Corporations; Style, Revision and Compilation; and the

Code Revision committees.

Later he served as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona, having been admitted to the Bar in 1907. He studied law while he was teaching school. Later still he was employed as legal counsel for the Arizona Corporation Commission.

Mr. Lynch died at his home in Phoenix, where he moved in 1922, after a long illness, on July 1, 1948, survived by Mrs. Lynch, their son and three daughters.

-533- CLARENCE R. LYNCH

Clarence Richard Lynch, a Clifton attorney and a Democrat, was elected to the House of Representatives in the Eighth Legislature, serving in 1927 an1

1928.

During his term he was a member of the committees on Judiciary;

Livestock; and Petitions and Memorials.

Mr. Lynch was born on November 2, 1900, at Rico, Dolores Comty,

Colorado, son of Andrew R. Lynch and Jennie Youngclaus Lynch. After completing his basic schooling, he went to the University of Arizona at Tucson where he obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1922.

He married Carmen Gautim at Bisbee on July 5, 1927, and they became the parents of a daughter.

Mr. Lynch was deputy county attorney of Greenlee County in 1925-1926, having been admitted to the Arizona Bar on May 6, 1922. He practiced in

Clifton and later in Phoenix.

Mr. Lynch last paid dues to the Arizona Bar Association in 1934. No additional information has been found about him.

JOHN R. LYONS

John R. Lyons, a Globe mining man, was elected to the Arizona Senate to serve in the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Legislatures, from January 1925 until

January 1931. During those three terms he held membership on many important committees.

During two of his three terms he was a member of the committees on

Public Health; Agriculture and Irrigation; Labor and Capital; and Suffrage and

Elections.

-534- For one term each he served on Highways and Bridges; Mines and Mining;

Banking and Insurance; Municipalities, of which he was chairman; Constitutional

Amendments and Referendum; Finance; and Education.

Senator Lyons was bom at Runge, Texas, on October 1, 1860.

He was married to Sarah L . Schrier on April 22, 1882, and they became

the parents of three sons and three daughters.

Senator Lyons was the first state manager for Woodmen of the World for

Arizona and New Mexico, and at the time of his death was district manager for

the organization, as well as being sovereign of the Copper Camp No. 104 of the

Woodmen, with headquarters in Globe.

He was a member of the Baptist Church and of the Elks Lodge.

Mr. Lyons died on September 27, 1929, with more than a year yet

remaining of his third term. Death came at the home of a daughter in Globe,

and funeral arrangements were made by his son, Charles.

He was survived by his widow, Sarah, who was confined to her bed by chronic illness in California, and by his six children.

WILLIAM D. MacBRAYER

William D. MacBrayer, Chandler Democrat, was elected to the House of

Representatives in the Seventh and Eighth Legislatures, serving from January 1925 to January 1929.

In the Seventh Legislature he was chairman of the committee on

Accounting and Business Methods, and a member of the committees on Good

Roads; and Suffrage and Elections. In the Eighth Legislature he was a member again of Suffrage and Elections, and was on the committees on Ways and Means; and Highways and Bridges.

-535- Mr. MacBrayer was a native of Alabam a, having been born there in 1869.

He arrived in the Salt River Valley of Arizona in 1887 at the age of 18. He

became prominent in the life of Mesa and Chandler. He was Justice of the

Peace in Mesa soon after arriving in Arizona, and later was prominent in civic

affairs in Chandler, from which community he was elected to the Legislature.

He suffered a stroke while still a member of the Legislature, and retired

to a ranch north of Mesa, where he died on June 1, 1933, at the age of 64 years.

He was survived by his widow, Mrs. Laura MacBrayer; a sister, Mrs. Frank Fogal

and two brothers, John and Moroni.

GEORGE F. MACDONALD

George F. Macdonald was elected to the House of Representatives in the

Fourteenth Legislature from Santa Cruz County. He was appointed to the

committees on Public Institutions; Mines and Mining; Capitol Building and

Grounds; and Military Affairs, of which he was chairman.

After the close of the Regular Session, Major Macdonald, a Democrat,

resigned his seat and was succeeded by W. H. Hathaway, who served in the First

Special Session which convened September 23, 1940. The major's resignation

came when he returned to active duty with the Army and was placed in charge of the induction center in Phoenix.

Mr. Macdonald was born on June 22, 1896, at Washington, D .C ., son of

John A. Macdonald and M. A. Macdonald. He attended Norwich University from

1912 to 1916.

He was a veteran of the military service, having served in World War I in army intelligence. And his call to duty in 1940 was in preparation for what proved to be the United States entry into World War II. After his World War I

-536- service he was given assignments in China, the Philippines and the Southwest

Pacific. In 1942 he had been assigned to work with the General S ta ff.

Before his retirement he was troop commandant at Camp Stephen D .

Little near Nogales, and served for a time as secretary of the Nogales Chamber

of Commerce.

He retired in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He did not marry, but told

friends the Army was his career.

Colonel Macdonald died in Tucson on July 8, 1965, at the age of 69 years.

CHARLES E. MacMILLIN

Charles E. MacMillin, Pinal County pharmacist and businessman, served four terms in the Arizona Legislature, three in the Senate and one in the House.

He was first elected when he was but 27 years old and was the youngest senator in the Second Legislature in 1915 and 1916. He returned to the Senate in 1921 and again in 1923. His House term followed in 1925-1926 when he was Speaker.

During his Senate terms he was on the committees on Mines and Mining;

Labor; Corporations; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; Suffrage and

Elections; Printing and Clerks; Style, Revision and Compilation; Banking and

Insurance; Public Institutions and Methods of Business.

As Speaker of the House he was chairman of the Rules committee.

Mr. MacMillin was bom on January 21, 1888, at Morengo, Iowa. He prepared for college in the Iowa public schools and in 1907 graduated from Iowa

State University with a degree of Doctor of Pharmacy.

He visited Colorado, California and Arizona in seeking a place to establish himself, and chose Ray, Arizona, as the place. He opened the Owl Drug Store there and did so well that he later opened an Owl Drug Store in Nogales.

-537- Mr. MacMillin was married in Los Angeles in 1912.

A fter his legislative experience he moved to Phoenix where he was engaged in the insurance business. In 1934 he pleaded guilty to a felony forgery charge and was sentenced to State Prison from one to three years.

He died on March 2, 1941, at the age of 53 years.

THOMAS MADDOCK

Thomas Maddock, one of the members of the Republican minority in the

House of Representatives in the First Arizona State Legislature in 1912, was a prominent political and professional figure in Arizona for more than 60 years.

He was elected to the First State Legislature where he was one of the influential members of the minority party. In the Regular Session he was a member of Judiciary; Suffrage and Elections; Education; and Public Institutions and Expenditures committees. For the Special Sessions he was given membership on Banking and Insurance; Code Revision; Corporations; Counties and County

Affairs; Good Roads; and Ways and Means committees.

He was born in Roanoke, Virginia, on October 17, 1882, the son of Frank

Maddock and Jean Wallace Maddock. He attended grammar, high school and private school in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He married Susie B. Johnstone at

Williams, Arizona, on November 22, 1905, during the time he was employed as a civil engineer by the Santa Fe Railway Company. They became the parents of three sons and a daughter.

Mr. Maddock arrived in Arizona in October 1899 and for the next 11 years worked for the railroad. In 1910 he became a private contractor, building bridges and dams in northern Arizona.

-538- He was State Chairman of the Republican Central Committee, helped to elect Tom Campbell Governor and served under him as State Highway Engineer, from 1918 to 1922. He returned to private engineering practice in 1923, after having placed the state highway system on a sound footing.

Mr. Maddock was a member of the State's Colorado River Commission from 1923 to 1928 and was influential in working for the establishment of

Arizona's rights in the Colorado River.

He was engineer and general manager of the Gila Valley Irrigation

District at Safford from 1939 to 1967 when he retired.

Thomas Maddock, after a career marked with achievement in every line of endeavor—civil engineering, politics, lodge work, the military (he served in

France in World War I), and veterans' organizations--died on October 3, 1971, at the Desert Terrace Nursing Home in Phoenix, survived by his son and three daughters, five grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

HARRY J. MADER

Harry 3. Mader, mine foreman and a Democrat, was elected to three terms in the House of Representatives from Yavapai County, serving in the

Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Legislatures from January 1935 to January

1941.

During that time, he was a member, for all three terms, on the committees on Corporations; and Mines and Mining, being chairman of the latter in his final term. He served two terms on the Labor committee, and one term each on the committees on Highways and Bridges; Counties and County Affairs;

Printing and Clerks; and Reconstruction and Unemployment.

-539- Harry 3. Mader was bom at Audenried, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, near

Hazelton, on September 10, 1883, son of H. W. Mader and Frances Mader. He

completed only the common schools.

Mr. Mader was married to Augusta Thornbeck on October 7, 1913, at

Jerom e, Arizona, having moved to Arizona in 1903, with the 5th Cavalry, where

he served three years and from which he was discharged as a Sergeant.

In Jerom e Mr. Mader took an active interest in public affairs, being

elected to the Town Council for two terms and as Mayor of Jerome one term.

He was foreman of diamond drill operations in the United Verde Copper

Company for 17 years by the time he was elected to the Legislature.

He was an active "ham raditf' operator, and was a life member of the

B.P.O. Elks.

Mr. Mader died in Phoenix on Ju ly 28, 1965, having been taken to the

hospital there from his home in Jerom e, a few weeks before his 82nd birthday.

RICHARD T. MAHON

Richard T. Mahon, a Maricopa County insurance salesman and a

Democrat, was a member of the House of Representatives in the Eighth

Legislature. He served from January 1927 until January 1929, having

membership on the committees on Banking and Insurance; Accounting and

Business Methods; and E fficient Government.

He was born in Lancaster County, England, in 1881 and emigrated to the

United States as a young man, taking up residency in Arizona at Phoenix in 1917.

He became an insurance salesman for the Loyalty Group in 1922 and continued in that employment until he retired 40 years later in Phoenix in 1962.

-540- Prior to his leaving his homeland, he was in the British armed forces,

seeing service in Africa in the Boer War.

When first moving to Arizona, he homesteaded in Paradise Valley in 1921.

When he died on June 7, 1964, in Phoenix, he was survived by his widow,

Violet, a daughter, Hazel, and a son, Chester.

3. M. MAHONEY

J . M. Mahoney, a Jerome Dem ocrat, was elected to the House of

Representatives in the Third Legislature from Yavapai County. He was a

member of five standing committees: Labor; Mines and Mining Enrolling and

Engrossing; Accounting and Business Methods; and Petitions and Memorials.

He served during 1917 and 1918, when the political power in Arizona was

in question, Thomas E. Campbell of Prescott, a Republican, having served a year

as Governor, before the courts declared that George W. P. Hunt had been

elected.

The situation in the Legislature, therefore, was somewhat confused.

Mr. Mahoney served but one term. He left no personal information in legislative

records.

It was during his term in the Legislature that labor troubles were rampant in Arizona's mining towns where members of the Industrial Workers of the World

(I.W.W.) were threatening workers in the copper mines. A t Jerom e, where the

regular union members were against the strike, the I.W.W. members, called

"Wobblies," were causing daily confrontations. Representative Mahoney was one of four representatives of the Jerome businessmen's group who helped to organize the townspeople to "deport" the Wobblies from the town in July 1917.

Later information about Mr. Mahoney has not been found.

-541- WILLIAM P. MAHONEY

W. P. Mahoney, native of Ireland, miner and laboring man's friend, was elected by the people of Mohave County to the House of Representatives of the

Second Legislature and to the Senate in the Third Legislature.

William Patrick Mahoney was born in Newport, County Mayo, Ireland in

1882 to Henry J. Mahoney and Mary Calleran Mahoney. He received his schooling in his native land and emigrated to the United States when he was 19 years old, landing in San Francisco.

He affiliated himself with the mining industry and as soon as possible became a naturalized citizen. He worked at Cripple Creek, Colorado; Tonapah,

Nevada; Butte, Montana; and Chloride, Arizona. He helped organize and headed the first miners? union in Arizona, the Snowfall Miners? Union No. 124 at Oatman.

He was elected to the House in 1914 and served there during 1915-1916.

He then was elected to the Senate in 1916 and served in 1917 and 1918.

From 1918 to 1926 he was sheriff of Mohave County and made an enviable record. Then he became a special officer for the Santa Fe Railroad on the

Albuquerque Division and retired as chief special officer, having served also as the railroad's lease and livestock agent.

Governor R . C . Stanford named him to the State Board of Public Welfare where he served under three other governors, retiring in 1952, while serving as chairman. He also, under appointment from Governor McFarland, was on the

Employment Security Commission. Later still he was on the Maricopa County

Parks and Recreation Commission.

Mr. Mahoney was married to Alice Fitzgerald in Prescott in 1914. They became the parents of a son and three daughters. He died in Phoenix on July 31,

-542- 1967, at age 85, characterized as one who "combined muscle and brains to carve out a career in mining, trade unionism, railroading and in politics."

3. P. MALLORY

3. P. Mallory, a Tucson Democrat, was elected to the House of

Representatives in the Third Legislature, serving from 3anuary 1917 until

3anuary 1919. During that term he was a member of the standing committees on

3udiciary; Labor; Suffrage and Elections of which he was chairman; Agriculture and Irrigation; and Militia and Public Defense.

Though Mr. Mallory introduced bills in several subject matter fields, not one of his 10 measures reached the Governor. His proposal to create a State

Police, and to define the practice of law, fell on deaf ears.

He left no record of personal information in legislative files.

THOMAS MALONEY

Thomas Maloney, Democrat of Tucson, was the oldest member of the

House of Representatives during the Ninth and Tenth Legislatures, having been

elected to serve Pima County from 1929 to 1933.

He called to order both the Ninth and Tenth Legislatures on opening day,

being the oldest in point of years, so became Speaker pro tempore until the

organization was effected in each case.

During the two terms his legislative activity pivoted around the

committee on State Institutions, of which he was chairman in the Ninth and vice

chairman in the Tenth. He was particularly interested in all matters pertaining

to the underprivileged, and took a special interest in the industrial school for

delinquent boys and girls.

-543- He held membership on standing committees on Education; Enrolling and

Engrossing; Public Lands; Public Health and was chairman of the Constitutional

Amendments and Referendum committee in the Tenth Legislature.

Mr. Maloney was born on board a ship in New York harbor on December 1,

1850. He first entered Arizona by stagecoach from Yuma to Charleston via

Tucson in 1879. He remained there two years working in a mill handling the ores

from Tombstone. He also was a miner in the Patagonia region.

He was an early supporter of George W. P. Hunt for Governor, and was

supportive of all measures benefiting Labor. After coming to Arizona he was

purchasing agent for three years for the Salt River Valley Water Users

Association, and for a time was secretary of the Board of Directors of State

Institutions. He had spent five years as district clerk of the State Highway

Department in Tucson between 1925 and 1930.

After being honored to occupy the Speaker's chair to adjourn the Regular

Session of the Tenth Legislature, he departed for his home in Tucson the

following morning, and lost his life when the car in which he was riding

overturned south of Florence Junction, on March 15, 1930.

He was survived by three daughters and a son, one of the daughters being

a resident of Phoenix, where he had been staying during the legislative session.

JOSEPH D. MANSFIELD

Joseph D. Mansfield, water attorney and Yuma County Democrat, was

elected to the State Senate in the Nineteenth Arizona Legislature, and served

during 1949 and 1950. He was on the Senate standing committees as chairman of

Public Health; vice chairman of Agriculture and Irrigation; and a member of

Suffrage and Elections; Education; Judiciary; and Public Defense.

-544- Mr. Mansfield was born at Uvalde, Texas, on December 27, 1919, son of

G . H. Mansfield and Ora T. Mansfield. He arrived in Arizona in 1928, attended

and graduated from Yuma Union High School in 1937, and obtained his law

degree from the University of Arizona at Tucson after some study at the

University of Southern California.

He was married July 1, 1946, at Tucson, to Mary L. Frafianna. He had

been in the Army from September 3, 1942 until August 11, 1943, when he was

discharged because his eyesight did not meet Army standards without glasses.

He specialized in water law, served as counsel for the Mohawk-Wellton

District in the lower Gila River Valley. He participated in Arizona's water suit

of 1952 against California.

Mr. Mansfield was active in the National Reclamation Association, was a

member of the committee on Mexican Water Salinity problems. He was a past

commander of the American Legion Post No. 19 in Yuma.

He was active in other community affairs, and was past president of the

Yinna Rotary Club, founder and past director of the Yuma Junior Chamber of

Commerce, past director of the Yuma Chamber of Commerce, and legal adviser

to the C ity of Yuma.

Mr. Mansfield was killed in an airplane crash on December 18, 1962, while

on his way to a meeting with officials of the U.S. Bureau of Reclam ation.

Surviving were his widow, Mary, two sons and a daughter.

R. HOWARD MARINE

R. Howard Marine, Flagstaff Republican, served his constituents during the Ninth and Tenth Legislatures in the Arizona House of Representatives from

Coconino County. He was chairman of the committee on Accounting and

-545- Business Methods for a term and held membership on the committees on

Corporations; County A ffairs; Printing and Clerks; and Ways and Means.

Mr. Marine was born at Green C astle, Missouri, on October 5, 1873. After moving to Arizona in 1891, he worked at several jobs, for a time being a guard at the Territorial Prison at Yuma; a miner; a stage driver between Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon; and a clothing store operator in Flagstaff. In public life he was Coconino County Recorder for two years and County Assessor for two years.

He was Justice of the Peace at Yarnell, Arizona, after moving there in

1940.

His wife's name was Aletha, and he had a son, George.

A veteran of the Spanish-American War, he was a member of the noted cavalry unit known as the Rough Riders.

Mr. Marine died in Prescott, Arizona, on June 14, 1954 at the age of 80 years.

C. H. (HANK) MARION

C . H. (Hank) Marion, Republican of Maricopa County, was elected to the

Twenty-first and Twenty-second Legislature and served in the Arizona House of

Representatives from January 1953 to January 1957.

As a minority member, he was a member of four standing committees:

Labor for two terms; and Education; Ways and Means; and Planning and

Development one term each.

Mr. Marion was born on October 20, 1906, at Charleston, West Virginia, son of John A . Marion, Sr., and Leatha A . Marion. He attended the Charleston public schools, the Hargrave Military Academy at Chatham, Virginia, and the

Charleston Business College.

-546- He was married to Mattie Dale 3arrett in West Virginia in 1925.

Following her death, he married Mildred Eugena Anderson in Idaho in 1940. He

was the father of four children.

In Arizona he was a ceramic tile worker and became a contractor in that line of work, and belonged to the Ceramic Tile Contractors Association.

He died in Phoenix on December 22, 1975, at the age of 69 years, survived

by his widow, two sons and a daughter.

DAVID 3. MARKS

David 3. Marks, Bisbee Democrat, was elected to the Arizona House of

Representatives for two terms, serving in the Twelfth and Thirteenth

Legislatures from 3anuary 1935 to3anuary 1939, from Cochise County.

He was a member both terms of the committees on 3u

Institutions; and Printing and Clerks, being chairman of the latter in his second

term. For one term each he was on the committees on Education; Enrolling and

Engrossing; and Rules.

Mr. Marks was born in Bisbee, son of Emil and Margaret Marks, on

3anuary 22, 1906. He attended Bisbee schools and Loretta Academy in Bisbee

before taking his college work at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara,

California.

When elected to the Legislature, partly on the basis of popularity gained

in his activities in the Young Dem ocratic Club of Bisbee and Young Democrats

of Arizona, he listed himself as a law clerk.

He married Sylvia Branson in Bisbee on 3une 21, 1936. After his terms in

the Legislature, where he was acting Speaker on occasion, he became Assistant

-547- Cochise County Attorney where he remained for nearly 10 years before

becoming County Attorney in 1947.

Marks was a popular figure in Bisbee, in demand as a public speaker,

member of the American Legion, Elks, Lions Club, and president of the State

Association of County Attorneys and Sheriffs.

While still serving as Cochise County Attorney, he was trapped in his

burning home in Bisbee on the night of April 5, 1950, and burned to death. The

fire was believed to have been started from a cigarette.

His wife and small daughter were away from Bisbee, in Seattle,

Washington, at the time. Mr. Marks was 44 years of age.

MRS. FREEDA MARKS

Mrs. Freeda H. Marks, wife of a prominent Phoenix attorney, served in

the House of Representatives from Maricopa County in the Sixth Legislature, in

1923 and 1924. While there she was a member of the standing committees on

Capitol Buildng and Grounds; Education; Public Institutions; and Petitions and Memorials, of which she was chairman.

Mrs. Marks was bom in Russia to John Lewis and Lena Harris Lewis on

July 4, 1885, and emigrated with them to Canada where she received her early education. She was married in Chicago to Barnett E. Marks on June 14, 1903, and moved to Phoenix with him in 1906. They became the parents of two sons.

Mrs. Marks organized the Federation of Republican Women in Arizona; helped organize the Women Lawmakers of Arizona; founded the Phoenix chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women in 1914 and served as its president five times.

-548- She was Arizona Republican National Committee worn an for more than 10 years, beginning in 1924.

Mrs. Marks died in the Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix on April 25,

1976, at the age of 90 years, survived by her son, Royal Marks, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

DR. WILLIAM E. MARLAR

William E. Marlar, pharmacist and naturopath, served Coconino County in the House of Representatives of the Second Arizona Legislature in 1915 and

1916. He was chairman of the committ e on Livestock, and a member of the committees on Appropriations; Education; Militia and Public Defense; Public

Health and Statistics; Printing and Enrolling and Engrossing.

William Emmett Marlar was bom at Mulberry, Arkansas, on April 10,

1881. He was the son of Captain T. W. Marlar and Gertrude Marlar. He attended the public schools of Mulberry and the University of Arkansas at

Fayetteville, where he studied pharmacy and business subjects.

Arriving in Arizona in 1900, he worked for the Elvy and Hulett drug store in Phoenix. In 1911 he moved to Flagstaff to become proprietor of the Marlar

Drug Store, from which community he was elected to the Legislature.

In 1908 he married Bonnie Popejoy of Mesa, and became the father of a daughter, Gleola Brun, and son, William E . Marlar, Jr .

He called himself a "joiner," and was active in several civic and fraternal organizations. He was a charter member of Oriental Lodge, F. and A. M., in

Mesa.

He sold his store in Flagstaff and moved to Mesa where he opened an office as a naturopath, and was engaged in that practice when he died.

-549- The end came in Santa Monica, California on September 8, 1952, while he

was visiting relatives there.

MRS. THEODORA MARSH

Mrs. Theodora Marsh, a Nogales businesswoman and a Dem ocrat, was

elected to the Third Arizona Legislature, and served in the House of

Representatives from January 1917 to January 1919. While there she was a

member of six standing committees: Accounting and Business Methods, of which

she was chairman; Ways and Means; Education; Public Health and Statistics;

Public Institutions; and Efficient Government.

Mrs. Marsh was the mother of two daughters, and operated the Marsh

Furniture Store and Funeral Home in Nogales at the time of her election.

Information pertaining to her career after her legislative service, and her

retirement has not been found. One unverified record said she was bom on

May 10, 1894 in Pennsylvania and died on May 18, 1978 in Phoenix, which would

have made her 84 years old.

During her term, she introduced three bills, two of which were sigped by the Governor. One established local boards of child welfare empowered to grant

relief to children of widowed mothers, and the other was the important measure which abolished the State Board of Control.

MERTON MARTENSON

Merton Martenson, Tucson Republican, was sent to the Arizona State

Senate from Pima County to serve in the Ninth Legislature during most of 1929.

He was chairman of the committee on Public Defense and a member of the committees on Education; Public Health; Suffrage and Elections; Style, Revision and Compilation; and Enrolling and Engrossing.

-550- He resigned his legislative seat before his term expired and became secretary of the State Board of Directors of State Institutions, which post he held from late 1929 until January 1931.

Mr. Martenson was bom at Hayward, Wisconsin, on March 20, 1892, the son of John Martenson and Marie Johnson Martenson. He obtained a high school education. Before moving to Arizona he was a Republican sheriff at Barron

County, Wisconsin.

He was editor of a newspaper, the "Cheteck Alert," at Barron, and later was a reporter for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. He was also editor of the

Southwest Veteran, a news publication at Tucson.

He saw military service with the Canadian and British forces in World

War I, and was commander of the American Legion Post in Tucson for a term.

Mr. Martenson was married to Maude E. Post on March 25, 1922, at

Barron, Wisconsin, and they became parents of a son and a daughter.

He died at San Bernardino, California, on December 5, 1948, at the age of

56 years.

ANDREW P. MARTIN

Andrew P. Martin was but 29 years old when he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Second State Legislature in 1914. He was a druggist in the Martin Drug Company of Tucson where he had learned pharmacy under the tutelage of his father George Martin and had passed his examinations with high grades.

In the Second Legislature he was chairman of the Corporations committee and member of the committees on Public Lands; Mines and Mining;

-551- Appropriations; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; Constitutional

Mandates; Militia and Public Defense; and Accounting and Methods of Business.

Andrew Phillip Martin was bom in Tucson on September 13, 1886, and attended the public schools there as well as the University of Arizona.

He was called the Father of the University of Arizona Pharmacy School because he spent time and effort through organizing the State Pharmaceutical

Association which eventually brought about the establishment of that school for pharm aci sts, in 1947.

He was known as the Father of the Arizona National Guard because at the

University, while a student, he was captain of the cadet unit and organized the first Arizona National Guard Unit, in the Arizona Territory.

He became secretary to Carl Hayden when he took his seat in Congress in

1912, and later, when the United States entered World War 1, Martin le ft with

Arizona's first contingent, to serve in France and Germany. Returning from the

War, he was instrumental in establishing the Arizona Department of the

American Legion and became the first department commander.

Mr. Martin died at Tucson on January 27, 1969, at the age of 82, honored and blessed with long life and great accomplishments.

DICK W. MARTIN

Dick Wallace Martin, Prescott recti estate man and attorney, served the people of Yavapai County for six consecutive terms in the House of

Representatives beginning in 1947 and terminating in 1958, from the Eighteenth

Legislature through the Twenty-third Legislature.

During those years he was a member of the Judiciary committee five terms, chairman three times and vice chairman once. He was on the committee

-552- of Banking and Insurance four of the six terms. He served three terms each on the committees on Suffrage and Elections; and Administration; two terms on the committee on Education; and one term each on Corporations; Livestock; Mines and Mining; Rules; Health; Appropriations; and Municipalities.

Mr. Martin was bom at Eureka, Kansas, on December 25, 1892, the son of

Samuel Allen Martin and Margaret Allie Wallace Martin. He attended grade school, the South Kansas Academy at Eureka; the Kansas City School of Law;

Polytechnic Institute; American Brokers Association; and the Dillenbach School of Oratory. He became a certified public accountant in Kansas City, Missouri.

He obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree at the Kansas City School of Law in

1914. While in Missouri he specialized in mining law and represented mining companies in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, West Virginia and Arkansas. He was a member of the Republican Party.

He married Sarah Maldwyn Jones on his birthday in 1928 at Emporia,

Kansas.

In Prescott he became active in public affairs, serving as Prescott City

Attorney; president of the Rotary Club; aSm oki priest; president of the Prescott

Comnrunity Hospital; member and president of the Arizona Association of

Realtors; chairman of the Prescott Building Commission, and president of the

Prescott Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Martin died in Prescott on June 4, 1962, at the age of 69 years.

JEROME P. MARTIN

Jerome Patrick Martin, Tucson railroad fireman, served the people of

Pima County in the House of Representatives in the Sixteenth Arizona

Legislature, during 1943 and 1944. He was vice chairman of the committee on

-553- Child Welfare, and a member of the committees on Appropriations; Labor; and

Accounting and Business Methods.

Mr. Martin was bom in San Antonio, Texas, on Ju ly 31, 1898, son of Philip

J. Martin, Sr., and Jeanette Peake Martin. A Democrat, he arrived in Arizona in

1906, while still a boy. He obtained a high school education. On September 9,

1920, he married atTombstone, Arizona, and became the father of two children.

He became a law enforcement officer in Pima County when he was made

a deputy sheriff and served from 1933 to 1937. He was Democratic candidate

for sheriff in 1940 before seeking the legislative seat in 1942. Still later he was

elected sheriff and occupied the office for four years, beginning in 1947.

While working for the Southern Pacific Railroad as a fireman and

engmeman, he was a local officer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and of the Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.

In connection with his law enforcement years, he was indicted for bribery and served a prison sentence, probably the single blot on his career as a citizen and public servant.

While basically a career railroad fireman, he acquired business interests in

Tucson, becoming owner of Jerry's Service Station and Dan Martin Apartments.

Jerome Martin died in Tucson on June 21, 1956, at the age of 57 years (six weeks short of his 58th birthday).

R A Y MARTIN

Ray Martin, Tucson salesman, was elected to the House of

Representatives from Pima County nine times between 1942 and 1965, beginning with the Sixteenth Legislature, missing the Twenty-first, Twenty-second and

Twenty-third, but returning for the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth

-554- and Twenty-seventh. During his nine terms, he was on the Public Health committee six terms and on the Counties Affairs and Municipalities (by different names), for six terms. He was, for three terms on Public Institutions committee, serving as chairman once and vice chairman once. For two terms each he was a member of the Ways and Means committee and the Administration committee.

He served one term each on the committees on Highways and Bridges; Education;

Accounting and Business Methods, of which he was chairman; Appropriations;

Petitions and Memorials; Arizona Development; Judiciary; Suffrage and

Elections; and Tourist and Industry Development.

Mr. Martin was bom in DeKalb, Missouri, on July 29, 1905, son of Elmo

Martin and Isola McGhay Martin. He was a graduate of high school and attended business college. He first moved to Arizona in 1927 for his health and returned to make it his permanent home in 1935. Before his legislative career ended in

December 1966, he had retired from his work as a salesman. He did not marry.

Ray Martin died on December 15, 1983, in Tucson.

R O Y MARTIN

Roy Martin of Tucson was elected to the Arizona House of

Representatives as a write-in candidate from Pima County, under urging from some experienced county politicians. He took his seat in the Fifteenth

Legislature in January 1941. While there he was on the committees on

Appropriations; Capitol Building and Grounds; Highways and Bridges; and

Petitions and Memorials. He called his single term "a learning experience’’ and his contribution "minimal."

-555- He did not seek a second term because he had become affiliated with the

American Red Cross at Davis-Monthan Field near Tucson, and was desirous of

making a "meaningful contribution because of being ineligible for military duty."

Roy Martin was bom in DeKalb, Missouri, on May 26, 1909, being the

younger brother of Ray Martin who later served nine terms in the Arizona House

of Representatives. Roy arrived in Tucson in 1929, shortly after graduating from

high school in Missouri, moving o Arizona for health reasons which kept him out

of the military service.

When Roy did not seek reelection, his brother ran and was elected in 1942.

Roy remained in the American Red Cross service for the remainder of his

working career, being in both domestic and foreigp service, with the Army.

After 29 years, he retired in 1970 when nearing his 61st birthday.

In 1988 Roy Martin was living in retirement in Tucson.

ANDREW (ANDY) MATSON

Andrew (Andy) Matson, Flagstaff dairyman, served the people of Coconino

County in the House of Representatives in the Twenty-second Legislature in

1955 and 1956. During his term he was a member of the standing committees on

Agriculture and Irrigation; Appropriations; County and Municipal Affairs; and

Fish and Game.

Mr. Matson was born at Wamhus, Sweden, on March 1, 1888, and emigrated to the United States and to Flagstaff where he was employed in the lumbering industry. He established himself in the hearts of his fellow citizens who elected him to the county board of supervisors to serve continuously from

1939 through 1950, and later sent him to the Legislature.

-556- For many years he operated the Pinewood Dairy in Flagstaff. To show his

love for his adopted country, he volunteered to serve as the Coconino County

chairman of the United States Savings Bond program from 1947 until 1972.

Mr. Matson passed away in Phoenix on October 5, 1975, at the age of 87

years.

D. A . MATTHEWS

D. A. Matthews, Glenbar Democrat, was sent to the House of

Representatives by the people of Graham County to serve in the Fifth

Legislature in 1921 and 1922. During his term he was a member of five standing

committees: Ways and Means; Fish and Game; Militia and Public Defense; Public

Lands; and Judiciary.

Mr. Matthews introduced but one bill in the Legislature. It pertained to

the protection of sheep raisers, and was passed and signed by the Governor.

He left no information in legislative records concerning his personal life

and none was found elsewhere, although an unverified report said he died in 1943.

WARNER B. MATTICE

Warner B. Mattice, Pima Democrat and farmer-rancher, served the

people of his legislative district in Graham County for three consecutive terms in the House of Representatives, and later served three terms in the State

Senate, during one of which he was President of the Senate.

During the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Legislatures from January

1939 to January 1945, he was a member of the House standing committees on

Livestock and on Public Lands, all three terms, during one of which he was

chairman of the Livestock committee. He served one term each on the

-557- committees on Education; Highways and Bridges; Agriculture and Irrigation;

County Affairs; Ways and Means; Appropriations; and Child Welfare.

In the Senate, he was president of the Twentieth in 1951 and 1952, and so was chairman of the Rules committee. In the Nineteenth and Twenty-third

Legislatures he was, for both terms, on Education; Livestock; and State

Institutions. He was a member for one term each on Finance and Revenue;

Planning and Development; Administration; Agriculture and Irrigation;

Appropriations; Highways and Bridges; Judiciary; and Labor and Management.

Mr. Mattice was born at Bryce, Graham County, Arizona, on Ju ly 3, 1900, son of John Warner Mattice and Jane Louise Bryce. He attended schools in Pima and graduated from Gila Academy at Thatcher. He became a farmer-rancher on his own at age 21, having been raised to that way of life. Later he owned and operated a dairy.

He married Evelyn Jane Taylor in Salt Lake C ity on October 5, 1921, and they became the parents of five children.

In public life Warner served a term on the Graham County board of supervisors, and was a deputy county assessor.

In 1988 Mr. M attice was living in retirement at his home in Pima.

FRANK O. MATTOX

Frank O . Mattox, a railroadman from Winslow, was elected to the House of Representatives of the First Legislature from Navajo County, to serve in

1912, 1913 and 1914. He was elected, too, to the State Senate in the Third

Legislature, to serve in 1917 and 1918.

In the First Legislature he was a member of the committees on Labor;

Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; Suffrage and Elections; and Public Health and Statistics, being chairman of the latter. In the Special Sessions he

served also on Ways and Means and was chairman of the Printing committee.

In the Senate in the Third Legislature, he was on the Judiciary;

Corporations; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; Suffrage and

Elections, and the County and County Affairs committees.

He was bom in Cable, Ohio, on September 18, 1874, and received his

education in the common and high schools at Urbana, Ohio.

He began his railroading career with the Pennsylvania Railroad at the age

of 18. After five years with that company, he was employed for another five

years by the Big Four (Railroad Brotherhoods). He moved to Arizona in 1900 and

a year later joined the Santa Fe Railroad, with which he still served as a train

conductor when he was elected to the Legislature.

He remained in the employ of the Santa Fe until December 21, 1923, and

was believed to have left Winslow and Arizona at that time. The railroad records indicated that he was 53 years old in 1926, but no further information was retained. His employment record was destroyed by the railroad on June 7,

1949, there appearing to be no further need to retain it.

JOHN W. MAYES

John Wesley Mayes, Ajo attorney, was sent to the House of

Representatives in the Sixth Legislature by the people of his legislative district in Pima County. During his term between January 1923 and January 1925, he was a member of the standing committees on Judiciary; State Institutions;

Capitol Building and Grounds; and Accounting and Business Methods.

-559- When he died on March 3, 1928 in Phoenix, after an illness of a year, he

was survived by his wife, Gretchen Mayes and two daughters. L ittle else is

revealed of him in legislative records.

During his term he introduced ten bills but none reached the Governor's desk. They dealt with regulation of Corporations, codification of State laws,

abolishing the Corporation Commission, giving cities and towns supervision over

corporations, teaching of high school grades in the State's two normal schools,

and State guarantee of the bonds of irrigation districts, and of bonds to aid in

reclamation of arid lands.

EDWARD B. MCALEB

Edward B. McAleb, Willcox banker and merchant, was elected to the

House of Representatives of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Arizona Legislatures

from Cochise County, and served from January 1939 to January 1943.

He was chairman for a term of the committee on Banking and Insurance

and was a member of that committee both terms. He was a member both terms

of the committees on Appropriations, and Livestock. For one term each he was

on the committees on Agriculture and Irrigation; Accounting and Methods of

Business; and Public Health.

Mr. McAleb was bom near Waldron, Arkansas, in 1891, son of N . F. D.

McAleb and Annie McAleb. He completed high school before going out to earn a

living.

On April 22, 1913, he married Jessie Couvington at Heavener, Oklahoma.

There he served on the C ity Council and engaged in banking. When he moved to

Arizona by way of Deming, New Mexico, he continued in banking. He had been a

bookkeeper and assistant cashier in Heavener until 1917. He was in Deming from

-560- 1917 to 1920 as a teller, and then went to Willcox, Arizona, where he worked for

the Cochise State Bank, spending some time, too, at the bank in Benson.

He became an organizer, vice president and director of the Riggs Bank in

Willcox in 1920, and continued there for five years. In 1925 he entered the

mercantile business, in which he continued through the time he served in the

Legislature.

Mr. McAleb was a member of the Willcox High School board of education

for 14 years, much of the time being president. He also was a member of the

Willcox Rotary Club and Past Master of the Masonic Lodge in Willcox.

Edward B. McAleb died in Willcox on May 6, 1975, at the age of 84 years,

survived by his widow, Jessie, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

p e r r y McA r t h u r

Perry McArthur, Camp Verde clergyman, was elected on the Democratic

ticket to the House of Representatives of the Eleventh Legislature from Yavapai

County. He was a member of the committee on Suffrage and Elections, of which

he was chairman; State Institutions; Public Health; and Education.

Mr. McArthur was bom in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on May 5, 1903, son of

B. F . McArthur and Lula Braddock McArthur. He finished high school and

attended college for two years.

He was married on August 31, 1929 to Lena Davis McArthur at Denol,

Oklahoma, and they were parents of two children by the time he was serving in the Legislature. By that time he had been a minister in the Cam p Verde

Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for 12 years.

Other information concerning the Reverend McArthur was not found.

-561- DARVDL B. McBRIDE

Darvil B. McBride, Thatcher educator and merchant, was elected to the

State Senate from Graham Com ty to the Tw enty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and

Twenty-seventh Legislatures, serving from January 1961 to January 19 6 7 .

During his three terms in the Senate he served on many of the important

committees. He served all three terms on the committees on Education; Labor

and Management; and Mines and Mining. He held membership for two terms on

the committees on Appropriations; Finance and Revenue; Judiciary; Rules; and

State Institutions. He was one term each on Constitutional Amendments and

Referendum; Suffrage and Elections; Tourist and Industry Development; and Public Health and Welfare.

Mr. McBride was bom at Pim a, Graham County, Arizona, on

December 28, 1909, son of Robert Franklin McBride and Clara Sims McBride.

He finished high school and j mi or college in Thatcher, and then took his Bachelor

of Arts degree from Arizona State College at Flagstaff in 1934. He obtained his

Master of Arts at Arizona State College in 1940 and later as opportunity

permitted, studied for his doctorate at Stanford University.

He was married on August 10, 1933, to Josephine Phillips at Thatcher, and they became the parents of four children.

Senator McBride was a school teacher and administrator in Graham

County for 15 years, ran a mercantile establishment for eight years, and engaged in the manufacture of fireplace equipment.

After his years in the Legislature, he went to Pasadena, California, in

1968, and pursued his degree of Doctor of Education. He also devoted time to

-562- the writing of the complete history of the death of his father who was shot by

draft evaders in World War I while serving as sheriff of Graham County in 1918.

W. A. McBRIDE

William Ashton McBride represented the people of Graham County for

three consecutive terms in the House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He

was elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and T wentieth Legislatures.

During his three terms he served all three times on the committee on

Banking and Insurance. He was vice chairman of Rules for two terms and a member of Printing and Clerks for two terms. For one term each, he was a member of the committees on Enrolling and Engrossing; County Affairs;

Institutional Reorganization; Administration; Highways and Bridges; Public

Institutions; and Fact Finding. He was chairman of Administration in his last term and Public Institutions in his second term.

W. A. "Bill" McBride, a real estate and insurance man from Safford, was bom on May 9, 1909, at Don Luis near Bisbee, Arizona, the son of James A.

McBride and Isabelle Bryce McBride. He attended the Safford schools and Gila

College at Thatcher.

He and Ora C lu ff were married on June 1, 1928, at Mesa, Arizona. They became the parents of four daughters.

Mr. McBride was with the Valley National Bank for 12 years, until January

1947, serving as assistant manager in Safford and manager at Clifton before resigning to enter business for himself.

He was the first president of the Clifton-Morenci Rotary Club, a past president of the Safford Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Elks

Lodge.

-563- Mr. McBride died on February 6, 1966 shortly before his 57th birthday.

N. S. McCALLUM

Newell S. McCallum, Yuma pharmacist, served the people of his legislative district in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Legislatures, from January

1945 to January 1949. During those two terms he was twice a member of the committees on Public Health, being vice chairman both times; Child Welfare; and County Affairs; and for one time each on Appropriations and Public Lands.

Mr. McCallum was bom at Jonesboro, Illinois, in 1901, son of Angus M.

McCallum and Margaret U. McCallum. He graduated from the Malvern,

Arkansas, high school and the L ittle Rock School of Pharmacy.

On October 23, 1923, he was married to Nola Adams at L ittle Rock, and they became the parents of one child.

He moved to Miami, Arizona, on February 10, 1925, and later went to

Yuma where he engaged in the practice of pharmacy, and became the owner of his own drug store.

He was secretary and member of the State Board of Pharmacy from

January 1, 1937 until June 1, 1945.

Mr. M cCallun died at a hospital in L aJo lla, California on November 5,

1954 at the age of 53 years.

J. E. McCLAIN

J. E. McClain, Maricopa rancher and stockbreeder, was a member of that county's delegation to the House of Representatives in the Second Legislature in

1915 and 1916. During his term he was a member of the committees on

Agriculture and Irrigation; Livestock; Good Roads; and Capitol Building and

Grounds.

-564- 3ames E . McClain was born at Marion, Grant County, Indiana on

October 10, 1873. He completed the public schools in that state and took a normal school course before going out to earn his living as a traveling salesman.

Later he studied law. His parents were names and Mary naneHoward McClain.

He was married in 1901 to Mary Alice Enright, an Indiana native, and they became the parents of two daughters. He arrived in Tempe in 1898, where he lived until moving to Phoenix in 1937.

In Arizona Mr. McClain became a leader in agricultural affairs in

Maricopa County, serving as county fair commissioner and winning awards for his pure bred livestock. He also was president of the Farmers' Institute of Maricopa

County.

Mr. McClain died at F lagstaff, following a heart attack, on May 22, 1943, in his 71st year. Services were held at St. Agnes Church in Phoenix and burial was at S t. Francis Cem etery.

He was survived by his widow, Mary A lice, and two daughters, Mrs. Wilbur

Bluhm of Phoenix and Mrs. Wayne Cook of Salome, and by two brothers and two sisters in Indiana.

g e n e b . McC l e l l a n d

Gene B. McClelland, Phoenix carpenter foreman and a Republican, served in the House of Representatives during the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth

Legislatures, from January 1959 to January 1963. During his terms he was on the committee on Livestock and Public Lands both times, and served one term each on the committees on Labor; Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs; Public

Institutions; Agriculture and Irrigation; Appropriations; Highways and Bridges;

Judiciary; and State Government.

-565- Mr. McClelland was bom in Tucson on February 11, 1924, son of George B.

McClelland and Ann Galloway McClelland. He completed elementary and high

school.

He was married on January 1, 1945 to Frances Marion Hathaway at San

Francisco and they became parents of two children.

Additional information regarding Mr. McClelland was not found.

JOHN McCORMICK

John McCormick, rancher and mail contractor from Rye Creek,

represented the people of northern Gila County in both territorial and State

legislatures. He was a member of the House in the Twenty-fourth and

Twenty-fifth territorial legislatures, from 1907 through 1910, came back to the lawmaking halls in the Third Legislature in 1917, and again in the Sixth

Legislature in 1923. He served then continuously through the Tenth Legislature, ending that service because of failing health after the work of the Tenth

Legislature was done in 1932.

He was chairman of the Appropriations committee in the Third

Legislature and a member in the Ninth and Tenth. He was chairman of Suffrage and Elections in the Seventh and a member in the Sixth and Tenth. He served two terms as a member of Public Institutions and Efficient Government committees, and one term each on the committees on Good Roads; Petitions and

Memorials; Corporations; Public Health and Statistics; Capitol Buildings and

Grounds; Accounting and Business Methods; Labor; and Ways and Means.

John McCormick was bom in Chicago, Illinois, on June 2, 1857, and was taken by his parents to Pennsylvania at the age of nine years. As a young man he

-566- worked at railroading. He was the son of William McCormick and Anne June

Young McCormick.

Moving to Arizona in 1897, after his wife passed away, he settled on a

cattle ranch at Young, and then moved to Gisela and eventually to Rye Creek,

all in Gila County. He was a U .S. mail contractor for the last 15 years of his

life.

Known as the "Oracle of the Tonto," by his many friends, he lived alone on

his ranch and was proud of his housekeeping. His door was always open to the

many who came to talk politics, ranching, or just to have a friendly word.

He and Mrs. McCormick, who preceded him in death by 40 years, were the

parents of three boys.

In addition to ranching, he engaged in mercantile and freighting. A t one

time he was a member of the Gila County Board of Supervisors.

"Uncle John" McCormick died of cancer on May 7, 1933, in a hospital in

Globe, after suffering for 18 months. He was survived by a son who was an

Episcopal minister in Philadelphia.

ARNOLD C. McCOY

Arnold Clifford McCoy, Ashfork motel operator, was elected by the voters of his legislative district to the Twenty-second Legislature, and took office in January 1955. He was named to the committees on Labor, of which he was vice chairman; Appropriations; Planning and Development; and Suffrage and

Elections.

Mr. M cCoy was born in Missouri on October 16, 1894, son of J . L. McCoy and Della McCoy.

-56 7- Moving to Arizona in 1916, he was a machinist for the Santa Fe Railroad,

and later left that employment to operate the McCoy Motor Court in Ashfork.

He was married on January 19, 1927, at Prescott.

He was active in community affairs, serving on the school board, and was

enthusiastic in supporting all endeavors for improving highways. He was elected

for a term as president of the Arizona section of the U.S. Highway 66

Association. He also was an active member of the Ashfork Lions Club.

Death came to him while he was in Phoenix during the Regular Session of

the Legislature, on February 28, 1955. He was survived by his widow, Mary

Kathleen, who was with him at the end, and by a grown stepson.

j o h n j . McC u l l o u g h

John J. McCullough, Democrat, was a member of the House of

Representatives from Cochise County in the Fifth Legislature, serving during

1921 and 1922. During his term he held membership on the committees on Mines

and Mining Counties and County Affairs; Labor; and Judiciary.

Mr. McCullough introduced six bills in the House during his term, and

joined fellow legislators in presenting a memorial honoring Arizona's casualties

in World War I.

Those approved included a relief appropriation for Dunbar's Weekly, a

newspaper, and an appropriation for relief of a constituent, Claude Sharp. A

measure pertaining to the duties of the Secretary of State, and one providing for the distribution of reports of the Arizona Supreme Court, also were passed and signed by the Governor. The memorial likewise was adopted.

-568- Mr. McCullough did not leave a record of his personal life and career, and

research failed to reveal information of his birthplace and date, schooling, or later activities outside the Legislature.

O. L. McDANIEL

Oral Lee McDaniel, Glendale farmer and cattle feeder, served four consecutive terms in the House of Representatives from Maricopa County, beginning with the Fourteenth Arizona Legislature in January 1939 and ending when he became a member of the State Senate in January 1947. He then served one term in the Senate before retiring in 1949 at the close of the Eighteenth

Legislature. He was Speaker of the House in the Sixteenth Legislature in 1943 and 1944.

During his years in the House, he served on most of the important committees, including three terms each on Agriculture and Irrigation; Livestock; and Rules. He served two terms on Ways and Means, and one term each on

Appropriations; Public Lands; Printing and Clerks; Public Institutions; Judiciary; and Institutional Reorganization.

During his term in the Senate he was chairman of the committee on

Municipalities; and member on Agriculture and Irrigation; Education; Highways and Bridges; Planning and Development; and Style, Revision and Compilation.

O. L . McDaniel was born at San Saba, Texas, on August 3, 1902, son of W.

A . McDaniel and Lutishie Davenport McDaniel. He had an elementary and high school education.

He married Audra Cartwright at Phoenix on December 8, 1921.

Approached as a possible Democratic candidate for Governor in 1942, he declined, but the pressure mounted for him to make the race in 1944. However,

-569- he was not politically ambitious, and so retired from office-hoi ding at the end of

his Senate term.

He died in Phoenix, at his home, on May 7, 1977, at the age of V t years.

L. DOUGLAS MCDONALD

L. Douglas McDonald, Buckeye petroleum products commission agent and a Democrat, was elected to the House of Representatives in the Sixteenth and

Seventeenth Legislatures from Maricopa County. During the Sixteenth

Legislature he served on the committees on Accounting and Business Methods of which he was vice chairman; County and County Affairs; Military Affairs; and

Agriculture and Irrigation. In the Seventeenth Legislature he was a member of the committees on Agriculture and Irrigation; Appropriations; Constitutional

Amendments and Referendum; and Petitions and Memorials of which he was chairman.

He was born on May 25, 1903, at Philadelphia, Neshoba County,

Mississippi, son of Luther R. McDonald and Mary Jewel McBryde. The family moved to Arizona in 1911, and he completed his elementary school in Phoenix and graduated from Phoenix Union High School.

He married Claire Stearns on June 21, 1932, at Phoenix and they became the parents of two children.

He entered the Marine Corps just after graduating from high school. Back home he went to work at the American Express Agency and worked there from

1923 to 1926. He became a salesman for Shell Oil Company for Phoenix and the

State of Arizona, and manager for the company at Holbrook and Winslow, before settling in Buckeye as commission agent in 1930. This was his business at the time he served in the Legislature from January 194 3 to January 19

-570- His father, Luther R. McDonald also was an Arizona legislator, serving in

the House during the Thirteenth Legislature, in 1937 and 1938.

L . Douglas McDonald died on October 27, 1980, at the age of 77 years.

l u t h e r r . McDo n a l d

Luther R. McDonald, Phoenix teacher and merchant, was elected to the

Thirteenth Legislature, to serve in the House of Representatives from Maricopa

County. During his term he was a member of the committees on Banking and

Insurance; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; Corporations;

Education; and Institutional Reorganization.

Mr. McDonald was born on October 31, 1874, at Laurelhill, Neshoba

County, Mississippi, the son of Hugh W. and Anna E. McDonald. He completed

high school and obtained his Bachelor of Science degree at Valparaiso University in Indiana.

He was married on April 2, 1902, to Jewel McBryde, at Edinburg,

Mississippi. Moving to Arizona in 1911 he worked as a bank cashier, a teacher

and a credit manager for a furniture store by 1937, when he served in the

Legislature. He also was engaged in selling advertising specialties. A religious

man, he served many years as a Sunday School Superintendent.

Mr. McDonald, whose son served in the House during the Sixteenth and

Seventeenth Legislatures, died in Phoenix on October 18, 1947, at the age of 73

years.

E. H. McEACHREN

E. H. McEachren, Miami real estate broker and businessman, was elected

by the people of Gila County to serve four consecutive terms in the State

-571- Senate, beginning in January 1931 with the Tenth Legislature and conduding in

January 1939 at the dose of the Thirteenth Legislature.

During his eight years of service he held important committee positions in

the Senate, serving three terms on the committee on Mines and Mining, one of

which he was chairman; two terms on Appropriations, one of which he was

chairman; and two terms on Public Health, one of which he was chairman. He

served two terms on the committees on Constitutional Amendments and

Referendum; Suffrage and Elections; and Style, Revision and Compilation. For

one term each he was on the committees on Labor and Capital; Finance and

Revenue; Highways and Bridges; Enrolling and Engrossing Public Defense;

Agriculture and Forestry; Methods of Business; Education; and Banking and

Insurance.

Mr. McEachren was born at Antigonish in the province of Nova Scotia in

Canada, on June 10, 1879, the son of Douglas McEachren and Isabel Hunter

McEachren.

He was married in August 1907, at Emporia, Kansas. He arrived in

Bisbee, Arizona, in 1899, but moved in 1912 to Miami, Arizona, where he spent

the remainder of his life . There he took part in many community and fraternal

activities, serving for a time as Justice of the Peace, and as an officer in the

Knights of Pythias, and the Masonic orders.

His last public office was as a member of the Arizona State Highway

Commission to which he was appointed in 1939 by Governor R. T. Jones, and

from which he resigned in 1944.

Mr. McEachren died in Miami on March 3, 1945, survived by

Mrs. McEachren and a son, Dr. John H. McEachren, serving in the U.S. Navy.

-572- J. R. McFARLAND

3. R. McFarland, Prescott Democrat, was elected to the State Senate from Yavapai County and served in the Ninth Legislature from 3anuary 1929 to

January 1931. During his term he was a member of the committees on Methods of Business of which he was chairman; Finance; Public Defense; Labor and

Capital; Public Lands; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; and

Municipalities.

During his term he introduced six bills, of which three received approval and were enacted. One provided guardianships for children of disabled military veterans. Another provided the funds with which to procure a bronze tablet in memory of the famous Arizona scout, Pauline Weaver. The third provided for the payment of the premiun for the County Treasurer's bond.

No information pertaining to Mr. McFarland's family and personal life was found, either in legislative records or elsewhere.

YALE McFATE

Yale McFate, Prescott attorney and a Democrat, was elected to the

Sixteenth Legislature from Yavapai County, and took his seat in the House of

Representatives in January 1943. However, at the beginning of the session, on

January 18, he submitted his resignation, after having been named Chairman of the Judiciary committee and given posts on the Public Health; Constitutional

Amendments and Referendum; and Education committees. He was succeeded by

A. L. Favour.

Yale M cFate, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy M cFate, was born in Arizona on

May 10, 1909, and obtained his elementary schooling in various Arizona communities where his father was school teacher or principal. He graduated

-573- from Yuma Union High School in 1926, and received his degree in education from

Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff in 1930. He took a teaching position at Holbrook that fa ll, and remained for a year. He had become interested in law, and began studying while still in college, and thereafter worked in a Prescott law office while completing his study toward admission to the Arizona Bar, which occurred in 1937.

He then served as deputy Yavapai County Attorney prior to his election to the Legislature. Following his resignation from the House in 1943, he entered the U .S. Navy, where he served two years in the South P acific.

Back in Phoenix, he became a Corporation Commissioner in 1946 and was there two years and then entered private law practice until 1957. He was named to Division 10, Maricopa County Superior Court, by Governor Ernest McFarland and served on the bench for 21 ytars. He retired 3uly 1, 1979, though his w ife,

Sandra, continued working as a court reporter.

EDWARD T. McGONIGLE

Edward T. McGonigle, Flagstaff businessman and former lumberman, was elected to the House of Representatives in the Ninth Legislature from Coconino

County, to serve in 1929 and 1930. He was a member of four of the important committees of the House; Appropriations; Fish and Game; Highways and Bridges; and Public Institutions.

Mr. McGonigle was born at Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1862. He married

Mary Cooney at Kansas City, while living in St. Mary's, Kansas. Shortly thereafter, in 1888, he moved to Flagstaff. There he took employment with the

Arizona Lumber and Timber Company as yard foreman, but within five years had been promoted to superintendent, a position he held for the next 20 years.

-574- In 1910 he joined with others to establish the Flagstaff Lumber Company

mill which he operated for three years before selling to the Cady Lumber

Company of McNary. In 1914 he opened a retail lumber yard in Phoenix and shortly thereafter opened a mill in Riordan, a few miles west of F lagstaff, which he operated for five years.

Suffering from impaired health, said to be caused by high blood pressure, he spent two years in California. Much improved, he returned to F lagstaff, and in 1926 bought the Li^itning Delivery and Transfer Company, which eventually obtained a franchise for hauling between Flagstaff and Phoenix. He was engaged in this business when he was elected to the Legislature.

Mr. McGonigle died at his home in Flagstaff on Sunday, March 22, 1931, several days after having suffered a stroke, at the age of 69 years. He was survived by his wife, Mary, and by two daughters, and brothers and sisters.

TALMAGE M. McGOWAN

Talmage M. McGowan, Wickenburg pharmacist, was elected to four consecutive terms in the House of Representatives from Maricopa County, serving from the Fourteenth Legislature beginning January 1939 through the

Seventeenth Legislature, expiring in January 1947. During the eight years, he was on eight standing committees. He served all four terms on the committee on Highways and Bridges, of which he was vice chairman one term and chairman three terms. For all four terms he also was on the Fish and Game committee.

For two terms each he was a member of County Affairs, and Public Institutions, and for one term each on Military A ffairs; Banking and Insurance; Agriculture and Irrigation; and Corporations.

-575- Talmage McGowan was born at Quitman, Mississippi, on March 23, 1890,

son of James H. McGowan and Frances Eugenia McGowan. He completed grade

and high schools in Mississippi, and graduated from the School of Pharmacy at

Loyola of New Orleans.

He moved to Arizona in 1920, and on May 31, 1925 was married to

Margaret Howie at Mesa, Arizona. They became the parents of one child.

For 10 years he managed the Woods Pharmacies, with drugstores in

Glendale and Wickenburg.

Mr. McGowan died in Phoenix on July 26, 1946, at the age of 56 years.

J. F. McGRATH

J . F. McGrath, Greenlee County farmer and businessman, was elected to

the House of Representatives in the Third Legislature, serving in 1917 and 1918.

He returned in 1921 and continued through 1926, serving in the Fifth, Sixth and

Seventh Legislatures.

During his eight years in the House, Mr. McGrath was a member of the

important standing committees. For three terms he was on the committees on

Efficient Government; Agriculture and Irrigation; and Appropriations, of which

he was chairman two times. For two terms each he was on the committees on

Good Roads, and Ways and MeanSj of which he was chairman once. He served

one term each on the committees on Elections; Education; Accounting and

Business Methods; Rules; and Public Institutions.

John Franklin McGrath was born in Shumway, Arizona, in 1881, and moved to the G ila Valley in 1894. He lived for years in Franklin where he served as postmaster and owner and operator of the Franklin Mercantile Company.

-5 7 6 - He was a member of both the Duncan High School and Duncan Elementary

School Boards.

In 1947 he moved to Mesa where he lived until April 1961 when he

returned to Duncan. He died there at the home of his son, J . Vernon M cGrath,

on June 10, 1961, survived by his w ife, Carrie Mae McGrath, his son, four

brothers, three sisters, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Mr. McGrath was an influential political figure in Greenlee County for

many years, and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints.

D R . JOHN W. McINNES

Dr. John W. Mdnnes, Tucson dentist, was elected to the Twenty-first

legislature to serve in the House of Representatives from Pima County during

1953 and 1954. Being a Republican, he did not obtain choice committee

assignments and was a member of only two committees: Agriculture and

Irrigation, and Counties and Municipalities.

He was born in Urbana, Illinois, son of O . A. Mdnnes and Elizabeth

Hatfield. He completed grammar and high school before entering the University of Arizona where he obtained a Bachelor of Sdence degree in agriculture. He then attended the Minnesota College of Dentistry from which he received the

Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. Still later he otbained a Master of Sdence degree in Oral Surgery from the University of Pittsburgh.

He married Elizabeth Domm at Nogales, Sonora, Mexico in 192S and became the father of one child.

His career began as an agricultural chemist, then he was on the staff of the Agricultural Extension Service for six years, from which he turned to

-577- dentistry. By the time of his legislative service he had been practicing for 13 years.

Dr. Mdnnes ran for the Democratic nomination for Congress in Arizona's

District No. 2 against Stewart L. Udall, but was not successful.

No later information has been found about Dr. Mdnnes.

ROSA L. McKAY

Mrs. Rosa Jane Lyons McKay, an activist for the cause of sodal justice, was elected for two terms to the House of Representatives from Cochise

County, in the Third and Fourth Legislatures, serving from 1917 to 1919, and then upon her change of residence to G ila County, was returned to the House to serve in the Sixth Legislature in 1923 and 1924.

During her representation of the two counties, she was chairman of the committee on Suffrage and Elections all three terms, and served on the Judidary committee all three terms. She held membership for two terms each on the committees on Education; and E ffid en t Government. She was appointed for one term each on the committees on Corporations; Petitions and Memorials; Printing and Clerks; and Rules.

Mrs. McKay was born in Denver, Colorado, on November 18, 1880, the daughter of John Lyons and Sarah R a tliff Lyons. She moved with her fam ily to

Bisbee, Arizona. In 1912 she was married in Tucson to Hugh McKay but continued to live in Cochise County, where she became interested in matters pertaining to the rights of women, especially their working hours and conditions.

In the Legislature she was instrumental in obtaining passage of the minimum wage law for women, and still later in obtaining a raise from $ 1 2 per

week minimum up to $16 per week. The Arizona law, tested in the United States

-578- Supreme Court, was declared unconstitutional, but its influence gave impetus to such legislation in other states.

After living for several years in Bisbee and Globe, she moved to Phoenix because of failing health, and died at her home there on March 20, 1934, at the age of 53 years, survived by her husband, a sister and two brothers, all living in

Arizona.

CLARENCE A. McKEE

Clarence A. McKee, Glendale attorney and a Democrat, was elected to the House of Representatives in the Eighth Legislature from Maricopa County, and again to the Tenth Legislature, serving from January 1927 to January 1929 and from January 1931 to January 1933.

During these four years in the House, he served on the committees on

Judiciary; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; Suffrage and Elections;

Banking and Insurance; Enrolling and Engrossing and twice on Education.

Mr. McKee was bom on October 15, 1888, at Punxsutawney, Jefferson

County, Pennsylvania, the son of James Monroe McKee and Elizabeth Ann Grube

McKee. After finishing the public schools he graduated from Pennyslvania State

Normal School; took his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Missouri; a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University; and finally a Doctor of Laws from the University of Arizona Law School.

He arrived in Arizona in September 1909 and became a member of the

Arizona Bar in July 1920.

After his legislative experience, he continued to practice law in Arizona until his retirement. He died in Glendale on April 6, 1963, at the age of 83 years.

-579- h o w a r d McK i n n e y

Howard McKinney, a Democrat, a hoisting engineer and a labor leader, was elected to the House of Representatives from Cochise County for four consecutive terms in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth

Legislature. His service extended from January 1937 to January 1945.

He was on the Labor committee for all four terms and was chairman of that committee during the Sixteenth Legislature, his last. He served three of his four terms on the committee on Mines and Mining; Counties and County Affairs of which he was chairman twice; and Printing and Clerks. He was a member for one term each on the committees on Judiciary; Reconstruction and

Unemployment; Capitol Building and Grounds; Constitutional Amendments and

Referendum; Institutional Reorganization; Ways and Means; and E fficient

Government.

Mr. McKinney was born on March 16, 1907, at Greede, Colorado, the son of Howard McKinney and Mrs. E. M. Austin McKinney. The family moved to

Arizona in 1920 and he graduated from Bisbee High School in 1925.

He was married on March 11, 1929, at Bisbee and became the father of two children. He became a hoisting engineer in Maricopa County, and earned the respect and trust of his fellow workmen, who continued to return him to the lawmaking halls to promote and guard their interests.

Information on Mr. McKinney and his career after he served in the

Legislature has not been found.

JOHN WILLIAM McLAUGHLIN

John William McLaughlin, Morenci electrician, was elected to the Senate of the Twenty-seventh Legislature, serving during the years 1965 and 1966. (He

-580- subsequently was returned to the House for the Thirtieth Legislature in 1971 and

1972.)

During the Twenty-seventh Legislature he was a member of the

committees on Enrolling and Engrossing, of which he was chairman; Suffrage and

Elections, of which he was chairman; Agriculture and Irrigation; Banking and

Insurance; Education; Livestock and Public Lands; Highways and Bridges; Mines

and Mining and Rules.

He was born on April 18, 1929 at Janesville, Wisconsin, the son of Dick O .

McLaughlin and Gladys M. McLaughlin. He graduated from Janesville high

school and studied two years at the University of Wisconsin.

On April 13, 1952 he was married to Elvira O. Ruiz at Lordsburg, New

Mexico, and by November 1964 they were parents of four children.

In addition to his electrical work, he also was engaged in insurance.

Mr. McLaughlin was living in retirement in Clifton in 1989.

C h a r l e s j . Mc Q u i l l a n

Charles J . McQuillan, Winslow railroad conductor and a Republican, was

elected to the House of Representatives for four consecutive terms, and served in the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Legislatures from Navajo County. His service began in January 1927 and continued until January 1935.

Even though he was of the minority party in the House during the entire

time there, he won the confidence of the Democrats and enjoyed assignments on the most important committees, and even was named chairman of the Labor

committee and the committee on Suffrage and Elections.

He was a member of the powerful Appropriations committee three of his four terms, and was on the more powerful Rules committee. He was on Militia

-581- and Public Defense for two terms, and a member for one term each, on the

committees on Banking and Insurance; and Printing and Clerks.

Charles John McQuillan was born on December 7, 1885, at Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania, son of Charles McQuillan and Sarah Brown. He attended

Philadelphia public schools, and the United States Army School of Military

Aeronautics at Austin and Kelley Field, Texas. He moved to Arizona in

November 1915. A t Winslow he worked for the Santa F e Railroad and belonged

to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors.

Called into active duty in World War II, he was promoted to the rank of

Lieutenant Colonel in October 1942.

Mr. McQuillan died at Santa Monica, California on October 24, 1959, approaching his 74th birthday.

LAURA M. McRAE

Mrs. Laura Morris McRae a Phoenix housewife and a Dem ocrat, was a member of the House of Representatives for 18 years, beginning in January 1939 and extending until January 1957, covering all Legislatures from the Fourteenth through the Twenty-second. She probably held the record for being chairman of the Child Welfare committee, which position she held for 12 years, and an additional two years under the title of Health, Welfare and Correction. During her tenure the Arizona Children's Colony at Randolph was firmly established, and the Crippled Children's Convalescent Center at Ternpe was created. She was in the forefront of all efforts to aid the handicapped and underprivileged children of Arizona. She served on advisory committees or councils on highway safety, vocational education, and the White House Conference.

-582- During her long service in the House, she served seven terms on the Public

Institutions committee; six terms on the Education committee, one of which she

was chairman; and five terms on the Public Health committee. She saw service

too on the committees on Printing and Clerks; Petitions and Memorials;

Highways and Bridges; Judiciary; Fish and Game; Ways and Means;

Administration; Welfare; Institutional Reorganization; and Constitutional

Amendments and Referendum.

Mrs. McRae was born at Safford, Arizona, on June 12, 1898, to Robert and

Carolina Morris. She completed the public schools in Safford and Snowflake, and attended G ila College for two years in Thatcher. On September 18, 1920, she married William M cRae, and they became parents of two daughters and a son.

After her husband, an attorney, died in 1973 she spent several relaxed years at her home in Tempe, visiting for periods of varying length with her children in Utah and Arizona.

She died at her Tempe home on December 18, 1982, at the age of 84 years.

J . B. MEAD

Jennings Bryan Mead, Tucson insurance agent and a Democrat, was appointed by the Pima County board of supervisors to fill a vacancy le ft in the

State Senate by the death of Senate President H. H. d'Autremont. He took his seat at the opening of the First Special Session of the Eighteenth Legislature on

June 9,1947.

He was appointed by President John G . Babbitt to the chairmanship of the committee on Finance and Revenue, and to membership on the committees on

-583- Banking and Insurance; Education; Highways and Bridges; State Institutions; and

Constitutional Amendments and Referendum.

After his appointive term in the Senate, he was elected to the Nineteenth

Legislature and was a member of the committees on Banking and Insurance;

Finance and Revenue; Highways and Bridges; Methods of Business; Mines and

Mining; Municipalities; and was chairman of the committee on Enrolling and

Engrossing.

Dennings Bryan Mead was born on January 29, 1898, at Star C ity ,

Arkansas, the son of Lee Carson Mead and Charlotte Wynn Mead. He completed elementary and high school before moving to Arizona in 1920. He was in the accounting department at the New Cornelia Copper Company at Ajo from 1924 to 1942, and also worked for the Phelps Dodge Corporation there.

He was elected to the Pima County Board of Supervisors for four terms.

From 1949 until the time he was appointed to the Legislature, he was agent for the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company at Tucson. He did not marry.

Mr. Mead died on September 2, 1960, at Los Angeles, at the age of 62 years.

EVAN ME CHAM

Evan Mecham, a Glendale automobile dealer and a Republican, was elected by the people of Maricopa County as one of the two State senators from that county in the Tw enty-fifth Legislature, to serve in 1961 and 1962. During his term of office, being of the minority party, he held no chairmanships of committees but was given membership on six standing committees: Fish and

Game; Judiciary; Labor and Management; Livestock and Public Lands; Military and Veterans' Affairs; and Tourist and Industry Development.

-584- Mr. Mecham was born at Duchesne, Utah, on May 24, 1924, son of

Adelbert Mecham and Ina L. Handberg. He completed three and a half years of college, studying business management and economics.

He married Florence Lambert on June 11, 1945, in Salt Lake C ity , and they became the parents of six children.

He left Utah Agricultural College to enter wartime service in the Army

A ir Corps in March 1943. He remained in service until March 1946, assigned to the Eigfith Air Force, seeing service in the European Theater. After returning from war service he joined the Arizona Air National Guard and served until 1950 when he established an automobile dealership at A jo. He later moved to

Glendale in the same business. While in Ajo he unsuccessfully sought a seat in the House of Representatives in 1952.

After his legislative term Mr. Mecham became a leader in Arizona

Republican politics, unsuccessfully seeking office of United States Senator and the governorship on several occasions. In a three-way contest in 1987 he was

elected Governor over Carolyn Warner and William Schultz. However, by an antagonistic legislature and newspaper and radio-television press, he was

discredited and impeached, and was removed from office in 1988. His influence continued to be felt in the elections of that year.

CHARLES M. MENDERSON

Charles M. Menderson, Phoenix pharmacist and bus line operator, was

elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in the Thirteenth Legislature, and served from January 1937 to January 1939, at which time he took his seat in the State Senate for one term , his service ending in January 1941.

-585- In the House he held membership on the committees on Banking and

Insurance; Education; Highways and Bridges; Ways and Means; and Corporations,

of which he was chairman. In the Senate he was chairman of the committee on

Education, and a member of the committees on Appropriations; Constitutional

Amendments and Referendum; Finance and Revenue; Highways and Bridges;

Labor and Capital; and Methods of Business.

Mr. Menderson was born at Frostberg, Maryland, on March 17, 1897, the

son of Joseph and Jane Menderson. He completed the common schools and then

attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he obtained a degree in pharmacy.

He was married on August 3, 1917, to Emily E. and became the father of

two daughters.

For a short while after he moved to Arizona in 1925, he practiced

pharmacy, but soon joined his father in establishing the Menderson Bus Lines

which, after expansion, was sold to the Metropolitan Bus Lines.

After a successful business career, Mr. Menderson died at Santa Monica,

California, on May 21, 1952, survived by his wife. He was 55 years old.

GRANT H. MERRILL

Grant H. Merrill, who called himself a Prescott stockman, was elected to the House of Representatives in the Tenth Legislature, from Yavapai County.

He was assigned to the standing committees on Public Lands, of which he was chairman; Fish and Gam e, of which he was vice chairman; and Labor.

Mr. Merrill was born at St. David, in Cochise County, Arizona on May 21,

1885, the son of John S. Merrill and Rebecca Weaver. He completed the grammar school in S t. David.

-586- He left Arizona in 1911. He participated in World War 1 and then followed

an acting career for a time. Returning to Arizona in 1926, he engaged in cattle

raising on the K-Bar Cattle ranch near Prescott until 1937. Under Governor

Sidney P. Osborn he became construction and maintenance superintendent on the

State highway between Phoenix and Prescott (Black Canyon Highway) which post

he held from 1937 to 19i7.

He was married in 1919 to Lena Beckers at Ventura, California, and they

became the parents of a daughter.

Grant H. Merrill died in Phoenix on October 2, 1968, at the age of 83

years.

JOHN S. MERRILL

John S. Merrill, St. David farmer and churchman, served in the House of

Representatives in the Second Legislature from Cochise County. During his term in 1915 and 1916, he was chairman of the committee on Corporations; and a member of the committees on Militia and Public Defense; Public Institutions; and Accounting and Business Methods.

Mr. Merrill was born in Salt Lake C ity on March 5, 1853, the son of

Philemon C . Merrill, adjutant of the Mormon Battalion, and Mary Jane Smith.

He attended the grammar school at St. David, and then went into farming there, which was the custom of the time. His father had moved to S t. David via Lehi,

Arizona, and established his family in the San Pedro Valley about 1878.

John married Rebecca Weaver in 1871 in Utah and to them were bom 12 children. A later marriage to Esther Eldridge brought him six more children. In addition to his farming, he was a peace officer in Cochise County for some 20 years, which earned him a reputation for firmness and fairness.

-587- During the 10 years before he was elected to the Legislature, he had served as bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in St. David, where he was looked upon as the leader in non-religious as well as church affairs.

John S. Merrill died in S t. David on January 1, 1937, at the age of 84 years.

HUBERT O. MERRYWEATHER

Hubert O. Merryweather, rancher and businessman of Tumacacori, was elected to the State Senate for three consecutive terms to represent Santa Cruz

County. His tenure began in January 1949 with the Nineteenth Legislature, and continued until January 1955. He was Senate President during the 1953-1954 term.

While he was President of the Senate he was chairman of the Rules committee according to custom, but in the two other Legislatures he was a member of the standing committees as follows: chairman of Finance and

Revenue both terms; member of Public Lands; Agriculture and Irrigation; and

Highways and Bridges both terms, serving as vice chairman of Highways and

Bridges one term; and a member of Employees and Supplies; Capital and Labor;

Education; and Livestock, one term each.

Mr. Merryweather was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on January 20, 1918, son of George E. Merryweather and Laura E. Merryweather. He attended the

Hawken School in Cleveland and the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

Moving to Arizona, he attended the University of Arizona.

In Arizona he became associated with cattle ranching in northern Santa

Cruz County on the Baca Float, Spanish land grant, and became vice president of

-588- the Baca Float Ranch; president of the Tumacacori Cattle Company and the

Mission Store, Inc., as well as the Bermuda Plantations.

Mr. Merryweather married Anne Montgomery at Tyrone, New Mexico, on

June 7, 1941, and they became the parents of two daughters.

He was a leading citizen in his county and in Tucson, being a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Greater Arizona, Inc., Old Pueblo Club, American

Legion and other organizations.

He died on October 30, 1976, at the age of 58 years.

H A R R Y E. METZ

Harry E. Metz, a Jerom e mining engineer and a Dem ocrat, was a member of the House of Representatives from Yavapai County in the Sixteenth,

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Legislatures, from 1943 to 1949. During those three terms he held membership on several of the important standing committees. He was on the committee on Mines and Mining all three terms and was vice chairman once; on Labor all three terms and vice chairman once; on

Constitutional Amendments twice, being chairman one term and vice chairman the other; on Judiciary twice; and Natural Resources; County Affairs;

Reconstruction and Unemployment; and Corporations once each.

Mr. Metz was bom on November 20, 1913, atLewistown, Montana, son of

William H. Metz and Luella Popejoy M etz. He completed high school at

Salamani Township High School at Warren, Indiana, in 1924; Northwestern

University at Evanston, Illinois in 1937, and took a Bachelor of Science in mining engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He married Alice Puterbaugh on December 31, 1940, at Flagstaff,

Arizona.

-589- Before moving to Arizona he worked for Regnery Metals in Ontario,

Canada, until 1936, and then accepted a position at Jerome, Arizona, with Phelps

Dodge Corporation, where he was employed at the time of his legislative service.

He was a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical

Engineers, the Elks Lodge in Jerom e, and was registered as a mining engineer in

Arizona.

Later information about Mr. Metz has not been found.

JONATHAN L. .MICHAEL

Jonathan L. Michael, a Tucson high school teacher, was a member of the

House of Representatives in the Fifteenth Arizona Legislature from Pima

County, from January 1941 to January 1943. He was vice chairman of the committee on Military Affairs; and a member of the committees on

Corporations; Education; Printing and Clerks; and Public Institutions.

Mr. Michael was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, on August 30, 1903, son of C . L. Michael and Luna L. Michael. He finished Phoenix Union High School and Phoenix Junior College before going to the University of Arizona where he obtained a Master of Arts degree in history and political sdence. He also attended the Army Infantry School.

He became an instructor in military and social sciences at Tucson Senior

High School, where he remained until entering the military service in World

War II.

He left his teaching post to become a captain in the Infantry School at

Fort Sill, Oklahoma, instructing Army recruits.

He made the military service his career thereafter. He passed away in

Phoenix on May 6, 1977 at the age of 63 years.

-590- R. G. MICHELENA

Ramon Gallego Michelena, retired Nogales rancher, served Santa Cruz

County in the State Senate in the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Legislatures,

from January 1961 to January 1965. He held membership both terms on the

committees on Labor and Management, of which he was vice chairman in the

Twenty-sixth; Finance and Revenue; Livestock and Public Lands; Military and

Veterans' Affairs; and Education. He was a member for one term each on

Agriculture and Irrigation; Suffrage and Elections; Appropriations; Highways and

Bridges; Public Health and Welfare; and Constitutional Amendments and

Referendum, of which he was chairman in the Twenty-sixth.

Mr. Michelena was born on February 10, 1896, at Solomon, Arizona, the son of Manuel and Pomposa Michelena. He received a high school education.

He married A llie Wilhoit at Tombstone, Arizona, on April 19, 1930, and they became the parents of three children.

Before moving to Santa Cruz County, Mr. Michelena served for a time as a Justice of the Peace in Graham County. While operating a ranch near the border, he became a member of the Arizona Highway Patrol before being elected to the Legislature, as a Democrat.

He was a veteran of World War I and was active in the American Legion in

Nogales.

Mr. Michelena died at Phoenix on September 24, 1978, at the age of 82 years.

JOHN M1CKELSON

John Mickelson, Thatcher businessman, served four consecutive terms in the State Senate from Graham County. During his eight years in the Legislature,

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he served three terms on the committee on Public Health and Welfare, two of

which he was chairman. He was three terms also on Agriculture and Irrigation,

and Fish and Gam e. He was a member for two terms each on Appropriations;

Finance and Revenue; Judiciary; State Institutions; and Enrolling and Engrossing.

He was one term each on Education; Rules; Banking and Insurance; Suffrage and

Elections; Tourist and Industry Development; Livestock and Public Lands; and

Military and Veterans' A ffairs. His tenure began in January 1959 and continued

until January 1967.

John Mickelson was born at Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico, on December 29,

1907, to Morris Mickelson and Minnie Jenson Mickelson. He attended the

elementary school and high school before entering Eastern Arizona Junior

College where he completed the two-year course.

He married Manuela Tanner at Thatcher on October 6, 1927. He entered

the cemetery gravestone business, operating the Gila Valley Marble and Granite

Works until his retirement, after more than 36 years.

He was active in civic and other affairs in Thatcher and the State, being on the Board of Education for Eastern Arizona Junior College for 12 years; member of Rotary; chairman of the Graham County Selective Service Board;

Captain of the Graham County Sheriff's Posse; chairman of the State Board of

State Institutions for Juveniles and Mayor of Thatcher.

In the Legislature his major interests centered around establishment of a

State junior college system, and taking care of the citizens in need of health and welfare assistance.

John Mickelson died inSafford on May 28, 1982, at the age of 74 years.

-592- W. W. M IDGLEY

Wilmot Whitworth Midgley, Flagstaff merchant, was elected to the Senate in the Tenth Legislature from Coconino County. He served as a member of the

committees on Public Defense, of which he was chairman; Public Health;

Highways and Bridges; and Mines and Mining. He was particularly interested In the highway system and in the opening of Oak Creek to easy and safe travel. A bridge over the Creek north of Sedona was named for him.

Mr. Midgley was born March 17, 1872, at Excelsior, Minnesota, son of

Charles and Louella Tuttle Midgley. He attended and graduated from high school at Gadsden, Alabama. He moved westward in 1889 to California, where he married Lula Thrall at Pomona, on January 12, 1898. They became parents of a son.

He moved to Arizona in 1915, after achieving some fame in service with the California National Guard, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and serving on the Pomona City Council. He engaged in ranching and stockraising in

Arizona. Later he operated stores in F lagstaff, Winslow, Clarkdale and Ashfork.

In public life he served eight years on the Board of Supervisors of

Coconino County, two years in the State Senate and was the 1932 Republican candidate for Governor.

Mr. Midgley died at Flagstaff on December 5, 19^9, at the age of 77 years.

J. NEY MILES

3. Ney Miles, Ray merchant and a Dem ocrat, was appointed by the Pinal

County Board of Supervisors to fill the vacancy created by the death of George

A. Ernst, in the House of Representatives in the Nineteenth Legislature. During

-593- the remainder of that term Mr. Miles served as chairman of the committee on

Military A ffairs, and a member of the committees on Judiciary, and Aeronautics.

He then was elected to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Legislatures, serving from January 1951 to January 1955. During these terms he served on the committees on Highways and Bridges, and Livestock and Public Lands both terms, being chairman of the latter in the Twentieth. He served one term each on the committees on Judiciary; Labor; and Fish and Game.

Mr. Miles was bom on July 28, 1894, at San Angelo, Texas, son of J . S.

Miles and Ida Wetmore Miles. When he was 11 years old the family moved to

Douglas, Arizona, and a year later moved to Globe, in 1906. He attended grammar and high school in Globe and spent two years at Wentworth Military

Academy at Lexington, Missouri.

His career began in 1912 when he went to work for the Miami Copper

Company, but in 1913 he established the Miles Mortuary in Miami. He later established the Miles Mortuary in Globe, for a time was engaged also in the cattle business, but subsequently moved to Ray where he opened a grocery business known as the Ray Market. It was from his Ray residency that he was appointed and elected to the Legislature.

In 1933 he was named to the Arizona Industrial Commission for a six year term by Governor B. B. Moeur and for nearly four years was chairman. In 1955 he was again named to the Industrial Commission, this time by Governor

Ernest W. McFarland.

HL public service also included the Miami School Board, the Miami City

Council, and a term as a member of the Gila County Board of Supervisors.

-594- When he died in Phoenix on March 25, 1957, at the age of 62 years, a

House Concurrent Resolution No. 1 6 , was introduced in the Second Regular

Session of the Twenty-third Legislature by 32 members of the House of

Representatives, indicating the high regard in which he was held.

CECIL D. MILLER

Cecil D. M iller, Yuma insurance broker, served the people of his legislative district in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Legislatures in the

House of Representatives. He was a member both terms on the committees on

Banking and Insurance; and Administration. He served one term each on the

committees onFish and Game; Appropriations; County Affairs; and Education, of which he was chairman in the Tw enty-fifth Legislature. His service extended from January 1959 to January 1963. He was an active Democrat.

Cecil Miller was born on April 30, 1906, at Dry Creek, Louisiana, son of

Samuel Nathan Miller and Emma Heard Miller. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree at Arizona State College at Flagstaff in 1929.

On February 25, 1933, he married A lice Ferrell at Florence, Arizona, and

they became the parents of two children.

From 1929 until 1943 he was a school teacher, but then went into the U .S.

Navy where he served his country until 1946. He returned to teaching in 1947

and 1948, before becoming a life insurance sales representative, which business

he was following when elected to the Legislature.

He served five years as a member of the board of education of Yuma

Union High School.

-59 5- Because of his deteriorating health in the 1980s, he and Mrs. Miller moved

to the Salt River Valley and he was being cared for in a rest home in 1988, and she was with a daughter.

CHARLES L. MILLER

Charles L. Miller was elected to the House of Representatives in the Sixth

Arizona Legislature from Scottsdale in Maricopa County, and served from

January 1923 to January 1925. He was a member of the committees on Banking and Insurance; Efficient Government; Labor; and Public Lands. He called himself a farmer.

He was born at Wilton Junction in Muscatine County, Iowa, in 1863, and moved with his parents to Hand County, South Dakota, where he assisted his father and brother in building a flour m ill. He was involved there until 1907, with a community named Miller growing up around the mill.

He married E lla Bates on April 23, 1890, and they became the parents of two children.

During his residence in Hand County, he was elected Registrar of the county, was deputy county auditor, chairman of the City Council two years at

Miller, and county chairman of the Democratic Central Committee.

After moving to Scottsdale, Arizona, he became clerk of the School Board and served for many years. He helped to organize the Scottsdale High School district; was in charge of various World War I fund drives—Liberty Loan, Red

Cross, etc.

He engaged in farming and was a council member for the Salt River

Valley Water Users' Association.

He died in Scottsdale on June 19, 1923, at the age of 60 years.

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