118. Contents of this file 1910 - 1966 – Volume 19 Biographies

Biographies Francis A (Jake) Higgins -- R.F. Kilpatrick

committee on Highways and Bridges all three terms; on Administration; Public

Health; and Judiciary for two terms each; and Rules; and Municipalities for one

term each, being chairman of the latter. He received the House "Gold Star"

from Chief Clerk Ruby Sanders for not missing a roll call over a two year period.

Mr. Higgins, of Irish ancestry, was born in Winchester, Indiana, on

October 3, 1910, son of William Higgins and Ada Haworth Higgins. After he

received his elementary and high school training, he studied electronic

engineering.

He married Lucile Brumley at F t. Wayne, Indiana, on January 6, 1930, and they became the parents of four children.

He received his first class Broadcast Engineering license in 1932 after which he was associated with Radio Station WLBC in Muncie, Indiana, then with

WDAN in Danville, Illinois. He was sent to KOY in Phoenix by WLS of Chicago, when KOY was purchased, to replace the chief engineer who had entered military service.

Mr. Higgins himself served with the U. S. Office of War Information in

London, and was attached to SHAEF, General Eisenhower's headquarters, as liaison between the U. S. Embassy and the Eisenhower command. From 1944 to the end of World War H he was engaged In broadcasting in English to the world's largest radio network from London.

After the war, through 1954, he worked for radio stations in Indiana and

Illinois before joining the executive staff of the Arizona network at KOY in

Phoenix. He became first executive director of the Arizona Broadcasters

Association.

-387- He was a member of the Elks, Kiwanis, and several church related groups

and services, being an elder of the First Christian Church.

He retired in 1977 and remained active and in good health when contacted

at his Phoenix home in mid-1988.

HARRY W. HILL

Harry W. Hill, accountant and chief clerk for the Phelps Dodge operations

at Morenci, was sent to the State Senate for four consecutive terms from

Greenlee County, and was chosen president of that body during his second and

fourth terms.

During the Eighth Legislature in 1927 and 1928, he served on the

committees on Judiciary; Methods of Business; State Institutions; Highways and

Bridges; Livestock; Banking and Insurance; and Style, Revision and Compilation.

In the Ninth and Eleventh Legislatures he was Senate President and chairman

ex officio of the Rules committee.

in the Tenth Legislature he was on the committees on Banking and

Insurance; Style, Revision and Compilation; Rules; Appropriations; Finance and

Revenue; Education; Employees and Supplies; Labor and Capital; and Mines and

Mining, of which he was the chairman.

Harry W. Hill was born at Clinton, Missouri, on September 19, 1886, and attended the common schools there before going on to business college and studying correspondence courses. He was the son of Robert W. Hill and

Elizabeth Hudson.

He married Essa Pearl McCool at Morenci, on May 19, 1912, and they became the parents of three children.

-388- He was employed as accountant by the copper company in Morenci from

the time he came to Arizona on September 16, 1910, and continued in that

employment until December 31, 1929. After that date he turned his attention to

mining.

Harry Hill served as Arizona District Director of the Office of Price

Administration in 1944 and 19^5, and earlier was State Welfare Commissioner

from 1938 to 1950.

Mr. Hill died on September 1 4, 1954 in a Phoenix Hospital at the age of 68

years.

RAYMONDS. HILL

Raymond Spencer Hill, Phoenix Democrat, was a member of the House of

Representatives in the Twelfth and Fourteenth Legislatures from Maricopa

County.

During the Twelfth Legislature he was assigned to the committees on

Accounting and Business Methods of which he was chairman; Tudidary; Labor; and Ways and Means. In the Fourteenth he served on the committees on

Effident Government; Accounting and Business Methods; Agriculture and

Irrigation; Corporations; and 3 udidary.

Mr. Hill was born on December 23, 1898, at Clifton, Arizona, son of Henry and Rose Hill. He completed the elementary school at Clifton, attended the

Harvard Military Academy in Los Angeles, and studied business administration through the International Correspondence Schools.

He married Mildred B. Loecher at Phoenix on October 29, 1930, but had no children.

-389- He was a calculating machine operator.

Mr. Hill died on December 20, 1965, a few days before his 67th birthday.

A. E. HINTON

Arthur Elmer Hinton, Douglas sm el term an and Democrat, was a member

of the House of Representatives from Cochise County in the Ninth and Tenth

Legislatures. During those terms, from January 1929 to January 1933, he served

on the committees on Public Lands, of which he was chairman in the Ninth;

Appropriations, of which he was vice chairman in the Tenth; Education, on which he was a member both terms; Public Institutions; Fish and Game; and Judiciary.

Mr. Hinton was bom on January 9, 1866, in Linn County, Kansas, son of

George H. and Mary E. Haverly Hinton. He attended the common schools of

Kansas, and moved to Globe, Arizona, in 1883 where his uncle was engaged in ranching and freighting. He worked for his uicle for six months, both on the ranch and helping with freighting between Globe and Willcox with a 16-mule team.

He then moved to Phoenix in 1888 where he engaged in the mercantile business, with some interests in farming and cattle raising.

He married Emma C. Harbert in Phoenix on September 26, 1888, and became the father of two sons.

He went into Mexico in 1903 because of interest in several mining ventures, but returned to Arizona in 1908 to become employed by the Phelps

Dodge Company at its Douglas smelter. He remained there the remainder of his working career, having completed 23 years at the smelter at the time he was in the Legislature in 1931.

-390- In Douglas he was elected to the board of city aldermen in 1928 and

served two years before becoming Mayor of Douglas where he continued in office

eight years, 1921 through 1928.

After his retirement from his work at the smelter, he lived in Douglas,

and it was while he was on a visit to one of his sons, C. G. Hinton, in Vancouver,

Washington, that he died on December 1, 1937, a few weeks before his 72nd

birthday.

WALTER C. H1RSCH

Walter C. Hirsch, Phoenix office equipment store owner and a Republican,

was a member of the House of Representatives of the Twenty-first Legislature,

during which he was assigned to the committees on Appropriations; Banking and

Insurance; and Ways and Means.

Mr. Hirsch was born at Neche, North Dakota, a few miles from the

international boundary between his home state and Manitoba, Canada, on

September 10, 1904, son of L. A. Hirsch and Wilhelmina Hirsch. He completed

high school before entering Wesley College at Grand Forks, North Dakota, and

attended Hamline University at St. Paul, Minnesota.

He arrived in Arizona in 1942, having taught school and been a salesman.

He married Neva 3. Edwards at Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 27, 1946, and

they became parents of a son and a daughter.

Mr. Hirsch died on February 7, 1975, at the age of 70 years.

GEORGE HOCHDERFFER

George Hochderffer was appointed to the Arizona State Senate during the

Third Special Session of the Eleventh Legislature in 1933 to fill the vacancy

- 391 - created by the resignation of Senator Eari C. Slipher of Coconino County. He

served on the same committees to which Senator Slipher had been appointed.

Mr. Hochderffer was born at Bethlehem, Illinois, on December 22, 1863,

and at the age of 24 years, in 1887, started for California. He reached Flagstaff,

Arizona and decided to remain there. He spent the rest of his life in Arizona.

He did farming and ranching in the vicinity of Flagstaff but eventually

settled in Hart Prairie among the aspens, a place which became known as

Hochderffer Hills.

At one time he served as a deputy sheriff of Yavapai County, and was known as a writer, artist and civil servant. He served the Democratic Party as a precinct committeeman for 69 years.

He was instrumental in the development and establishment of the Arizona

National Guard, which became activated through legislation approved on

March 19, 1891. Immediately he helped organize Company I in Flagstaff, and he was made Captain of the company. He advanced in rank to Major in 1894 and

Lieutenant Colonel in 1901. After his retirement in 1904, he returned to the rank of Captain. Because of his record, he was commissioned Colonel, Infantry,

Honorary Retired List, which rank he held from 1910 until his death on

December 4, 1955, at Cottonwood, Arizona, where he moved from Flagstaff in

1953. He was 91 years old.

ROBERT HODGE

Robert (Bob) Hodge served Yuma County in the House of Representatives in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Legislatures, from January 1951 through

December 1954, and served on seven standing committees.

-392- In the Twentieth Ley si ature he was chairman of the committee on

Natural Resources and was a member of the committees on Agriculture and

Irrigation; Arizona Development; and EAication. In the Twenty-first Legislature he was a member of the committees on Agriculture and Irrigation; Counties and

Municipalities; and Education.

Robert Hodge was born on August 5, 1916, at Toronto, Canada, son of

David M. and Sarah C. Hodge. After finishing his elementary and high school education, he attended college for two years in Los Angeles.

A year before moving to Arizona, he married Florence M. Hodge in Los

Angeles on Tuly 25, 1941, and they became parents of three children.

Mr. Hodge was called "Mr. Big' in the Arizona Legislature, being six feet seven inches tall and weighting 280 pounds.

At the time he was elected to the Legislature he had been a distributor of

General Petroleum products for 16 years, nine years in California and seven years in Arizona. In Yuma he also had some farming interests.

Later information about Mr. Hodge was not located.

TAMES F. HOLLEY

Tames F. Holley was elected to the House of Representatives from

Maricopa County in 1962 to serve in the Twenty-sixth Legislature. He was

reelected two years later. (He subsequently was elected to the House in the

Twenty-eighth Legislature and to the State Senate in the Twenty-ninth

Legislature.) During the Twenty-sixth he served on the committees on Agriculture and

Irrigation; Public Institutions; and Ways and Means. In the Twenty-seventh he

was a member of the committees on Civil Defense and Veterans' Affairs; Labor;

-393- Natural Resources; Public Institutions, of which he was chairman; and Ways and

Means.

Mr. Holley was born on November 18, 1914, at Abilene, Texas, son of

James Monroe Holley and Kate Dawson Holley. After moving to Arizona he earned a degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Arizona

State University and l’ ter earned the Master of Arts degree in Education at the same institution.

His arrival in Arizona followed a career in the United States Navy, of 23 years in the naval submarine service.

He was married at Chula Vista, California, on November 26, 1947 to

Pauline McLean. He lived in Tempe and in Kyrene during his early years in the

State, coming in 1947. He devoted his time to personal investments after his naval career.

Efforts to obtain additional information were not productive.

3. D. HOLMES

3. D. Holmes was elected to the House of Representatives in the

Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Legislatures from Maricopa County, serving from

January 1961 to January 1965.

In the Twenty-fifth Legislature he was a member of the committees on

Public Institutions, of which he was vice chairman; Administration; Highways and

Bridges; Livestock and Public Lands; Municipalities; and Public Health. During the Twenty-sixth Legislature he was on the committees on Fish and Game and

Tourist and Industry Development.

Mr. Holmes was born on January 14, 1919, in Brooklyn, New York, son of

Lewis and Josephine Ross Holmes.

-394- He attended Michigan State University from which he received his bachelor's degree.

He arrived in Arizona in 1940 and eventually became a service station owner and a building contractor.

He was married in Yuma on August 27, 1947, and became the father of two children by the time he served in the Legislature.

He was retired and living in Phoenix in 1988.

DOUGLAS S. HOLSCLAW

Douglas S. Holsdaw, Tucson Republican, was elected to the House of

Representatives from Pima County for seven consecutive terms, from the

Twenty-first Legislature through the Twenty-seventh Legislature. (Subsequently he was elected to the State Senate for an additional four terms.)

During his seven terms in the House, encompassing 14 years, he served on

12 standing committees! for five terms on Public Institutions; for three terms on Public Health and Welfare; for two terms on Labor; for one term each on

Judiciary; County Affairs; Administration; Ways and Means; Suffrage and

Elections; Appropriations; Education; and Rules.

Although a staunch member of the House minority most of the time he was there, nevertheless he earned the respect of his colleagues in matters of health and welfare legislation as well as in education.

Mr. Holsdaw was born on July 31, 1898, at Grangeville, Idaho, son of John

Cling Holsdaw and Abbie Jean Oliver Holsdaw. He attended the University of

Idaho but took his Bachelor of Sdence degree from the University of Arizona.

He studied three summers at Stanford University and at the Harvard Medical

School from 1925 to 1928. He then changed the direction of his career, and on a

-395- part-time basis for five years was a student at the University of Arizona Law

School. However he did not set up a law practice.

He married Alice Young at San Francisco on August 5, 1931.

For a time he was an agent for the New York Life Insurance Company, then established the Pima Realty, Insurance and Marketing Company and operated it from 1936 to 1947, at which time he founded Capitol Investments, which he operated until 1972. He was a World War I veteran, graduating from

Officer Candidate School in 1918.

He was a leader in several civic endeavors—Tucson Chamber of

Commerce; American Legion and Disabled American Veterans; Pima County

Health Association; Arizona Historical Society, and Chairman of the Republican

State Centred Committee.

Mr. Holsclaw, though defeated for a fifth term in the State Senate, continued to be actively engaged in public matters. He has written the history of the University Medical School which was located in Tucson largely through his legislative efforts. He also has written a history of Delta Chi, national social fraternity's chapters at Arizona's three universities, and a history of Masonry in

Tucson.

As of November 1987, he was the recipient of 110 awards, placques and honorary citations—local, state and national, in the fields of human relations, mental health, education at all levels, good citizenship, and hospitals and public health.

He claims the record for longevity in legislative service for Republicans in Arizona, serving 14 years in the House of Representatives and eight years in

-396- the State Senate. At 90 years of age in 1988, he continued to keep his daily schedule crowded with community and social service activities.

JOSEPH W. HOLUB

Joseph M. Holub served Maricopa County in the House of Representatives in the Eighth Arizona Legislature during 1927 and 1928. He was a member of the standing committees on Constitutional Amendments and Referendum, of which he was chairman; Agriculture and Irrigation; Judiciary; and Suffrage and

Elections.

Mr. Holub was born at Taylor, Williamson County, Texas, in 1882, and moved to Arizona in 1911, first settling at Williams. He had been prepared for the law, and after six years in Williams saw greater opportunities from Phoenix, where he moved in 1917.

A staunch Democrat, he received an appointment as assistant

U.S. District Attorney during the Woodrow Wilson administration from 1917 to

1921, for the Arizona district.

Mr. Holub died on June 18, 1941, at Phoenix, at the age of 59 years, a few days after entering the hospital for treatment of a heart ailment.

RALPH C. HOOKER

Ralph C. Hooker, Prescott Democrat, was appointed to the Arizona House of Representatives and was seated February 17, 1944, at the beginning of the

First Special Session of the Sixteenth Legislature, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of A. L. Favour of Yavapai County. Mr. Favour was entering the military service.

Mr. Hooker was in attendance at the First and Second Special Sessions of the Sixteenth Legislature, and was elected to the Seventeenth Legislature. He served during the Regular Session and the First Special Session of that body, but

-397- resigned after those sessions, with A. L. Favour succeeding him on April 25,

1946.

Mr. Hooker was chairman of the Livestock committee in the Seventeenth

Legislature, and a member of the committees on Public Lands; Ways and Means;

and Highways and Bridges.

Ralph C. Hooker was born on January 28, 1904, in Cleburne, Texas, the

son of Mrs. Della M. Hooker. After finishing high school he attended a business

college.

In Arizona he engaged in cattle ranching near Prescott, and from there he

entered the Arizona Legislature. Because labor was scarce during World War II,

and he could not find dependable employees for his ranch, he did not remain in

the House to finish out his term, but returned to the ranch to look after his

interests there.

He was married on November 7, 1942, at Prescott, and spent the

remainder of his active years in business there. After retiring, he moved from

the ranch into town, and was living there at the age of 84 years when this was

written in 1988.

GORDON L. HOOPES

Gordon LeRoy Hoopes, Safford Democrat, represented Graham County in

the House of Representatives in the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth and

Twenty-seventh Legislatures. During his three terms he served on eight standing committees: Agriculture and Irrigation for all three terms, of which he was vice chairman in the Twenty-fifth; Highways and Bridges, two terms; and one term each on Appropriations; Education; Public Health; Livestock and Public Lands;

Banking, Insurance and Corporations; and Tourist and Industry Development.

-398- Gordon Hoopes was born in Miami, Arizona, on May 5, 1919, son of Roy V.

Hoopes and Maude Sowell. He attended New Mexico Military Institute and the

University of Arizona, completing three years of college.

He was married on June 21, 1940 in Safford to Fern Burtcher. They

became the parents of five children.

His legislative service covered the years from January 1961 through

December 1966.

Mr. Hoopes was retired, and was spending part of his time in Safford and

part in Mesa, during 1989.

CHARLES A. (BERT) HORNE

Charles A. (Bert) Horne, Gila County businessman, was elected to the

House of Representatives in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Legislatures and

returned several years later to serve in the Twenty-seventh. His first experience in the legislative halls was between 1951 and 1955 and his last term was in 1965 and 1966.

In his first two terms he was a member of the committees on Natural

Resources, of which he was vice chairman; Suffrage and Elections, of which he was vice chairman; Counties and Municipalities; Fish and Game; and Public

Institutions. He served on the latter both terms.

In the Twenty-seventh Legislature he was a member of the committee on

Civil Defense and Veterans' Affairs, of which he was chairman; Banking,

Insurance and Corporations, of which he was vice chairman; Judiciary; Public

Health and Welfare; and Public Institutions.

He was born on December 13, 1913, at Beach, Georgia, attended schools in Georgia and at Mesa, Arizona, having moved to Arizona in 1928. He became

-399- acquainted with the furniture and home appliance business, establishing and operating Copper State Electric Company at Miami from 1945 onward.

He was married and was the father of three children.

In Miami he belonged to the Rotary Club, the Elks Lodge and the Cobre

Valley Country Club.

He was said to be retired in 1988, living part of each year in Miami and part of each year in Hawaii.

V. S. (JOHN) HOSTETTER

V. S. Hostetter, business machines marketing man of Tucson, and a

Republican, was a member of the House of Representatives for six terms from

Pirn a County and one term from Yuma County.

During his seven terms, or 14 years in the House, he served on 14 of its standing committees. In six of his seven terms he was on the Education committee; four terms on the Judiciary committee; three terms on Agriculture and Irrigation; two terms each on Banking and Insurance; Ways and Means; and

Highways and Bridges; and one term each on Accounting and Business Methods;

Corporations; Public Lands; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum, of which he was vice chairman; Public Institutions, of which he was vice chairman;

Administration; and Health and Welfare.

Possibly because he was a Republican in a traditionally Democratic body, he was not given any chairmanships during his long tenure. In the Eighteenth

Legislature, his first term, he was elected from Pima County. Then he lived for a time in Yuma County and was elected from there in the Nineteenth. Again in

Pima County, he served the people of that county from the Twentieth through the Twenty-fourth Legislatures, from 1951 to 1961.

-400- Mr. Hostetter was born in Mansfield, Ohio, on July 16, 1885, to Henry and

Harriet Jane Hostetter. He attended public schools there and graduated from

Ohio Business College.

He was married on June 2, 1910 at Polo, Illinois, and became the father of a son. Moving to Arizona in December 1938, he spent most of the rest of his life in Tucson, being divisional sales manager for the National Cash Register

Company for 32 years. During semi-retirement he engaged in recil estate brokerage.

He was affiliated with the Tucson Chamber of Commerce, Old Pueblo

Club, the Executive Club and American Red Cross.

Mr. Hostetter died on March 7, 1974, at the age of 88 years.

H. C. HOUSER

H. C. Houser, Globe Democrat, represented Gila County in the Third

State Legislature in the House of Representatives.

During his term he was chairman of the Game and Fish committee; and was a member of the committees on Labor; Mines and Mining; Livestock; and

Public Health and Statistics.

Mr. Houser introduced ten bills in the Third Legislature, of which only one became law. This was a measure creating a game refuge in the Pinal Mountains.

In the First Special Session he introduced three measures. One dealt with the safety of employees, one proposing the creation of a state council of defense, and the other pertaining to the exercise of civil rights. The safety bill reached third reading in the House but failed to pass. The others were indefinitely postponed.

No information was found pertaining to his personal life or career.

-401- E. ROSS HOUSHOLDER

Earl Ross Housholder, Kingman mining engineer and a Democrat, represented Mohave County in the Sixth Legislature in the lower house. During his term he was a member of the committees on Militia and Public Defense, of which he was chairman; Labor; Appropriations; and Mines and Mining.

Mr. Housholder was born at Bowling Green, Ohio, on December 9, 1893, to

Robert and Amelia Housholder. He obtained his professional education at the

Case Institute of Technology at Cleveland, and the Missouri School of Mines at

Roll a.

He married Lynette Franklin in Lefors, Gray County, Texas, on July 29,

1937, and they became the parents of two children. (He was father of three children by an earlier marriage.)

Mr. Housholder arrived in Arizona in 1925. He was a participant in both

World War I and World War II. In the latter he was the engineering and ordinance staff officer in Supreme Allied Headquarters inFrance and Germany. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve.

His mining engineering work took him to California and Nevada as well as to many parts of Arizona.

Mr. Housholder died on Thursday, July 7, 1965, at the Veterans

Administration Hospital at F t. Whipple, Arizona, near Prescott.

E. T. (HAPPY) HOUSTON

E. T. (Happy) Houston, former Tucson Mayor and a locomotive engineer, was elected to the State Senate of the Eleventh Arizona Legislature to serve in

1933 and 193

-402- Business; Public Health; Public Defense; Agriculture and Irrigation; and

Appropriations.

He was reelected and was in the Twelfth Legislature in 1935 and 1936,

where he was chairman of the committee on Appropriations; and a member of

the committees on Labor and Capital; Judiciary; Public Health; Municipalities;

Banking and Industry; and Employees and Supplies.

Happy Houston was born at Raton, New Mexico in 1S92, and moved to

Arizona in 1900. He followed his father in choosing railroading as an occupation,

and entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1910. He continued in railroading most of his life, serving as chairman of the Joint Railroad

Legislative Board for seven years, being involved much of that time in the

affairs of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

In 1937 he was appointed to the Board of Regents of the University of

Arizona by Governor R. C. Stanford, and left that post in 1940 to accept

appointment by Governor R. T. Jones to an unexpired term on the State

Industrial Commission.

He was elected Mayor of Tucson in 1947 and reelected in 1949. He was

serving in this capacity when he died of a heart attack on June 13, 1950, while

attending a meeting of the Tucson and Phoenix Chamber of Commerce officials

at the American Institute of Foreign Trade in Glendale. He was 58 years of age.

He had remained active as a railroad locomotive engineer up to the time

of his death.

He was survived by his widow, his mother, two daughters, two brothers

and three sisters.

-403- T. P. HOWARD

T. P. Howard, a Globe Democrat, represented Gila County in the House of

Representatives in the Fourth Legislature. While there he was a member of the committees on Banking and Insurance of which he was chairman; Militia and

Public Defense; and Corporations.

Mr. Howard was born in Carthage, Missouri on December 31, 1869. He finished the public school course at home in preparation for attendance at the

Collegiate Institute at Marionville, Missouri, where he studied two years before entering the Preparatory Department at Northwestern University, from which he graduated in 1893.

He finished one year at the University before going out to teach in his home town for a year before returning for more study, this time at the

University of Missouri where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1895. While there he was captain of the university football team.

Mr. Howard moved to Arizona in 1904, and was employed in the offices of the Old Dominion Copper Mining and Smelting Company at Globe.

He ran for county superintendent of schools in 1911 and became one of the group of officers to serve during the first term under statehood.

Later information about Mr. Howard was not located.

TIMOTHY C. HOYT

Timothy C. Hoyt, Snowflake attorney and rancher, was elected to the

House of Representatives in the Eleventh Legislature from Navajo County.

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

Irrigation; Education; Judiciary; and Reconstruction and Unemployment.

-404- Mr. Hoyt was bom at Mt. Carmel, Kane County, Utah, on August 1, 1874.

He completed the common and high school grades and Normal College. He studied some law at the George Washington Law School in Washington, D. C.

He was married October 6, 1904, to Eliza Ann Parry, and they became the parents of five children. He moved to Arizona in May 1917, although he had some business contacts in the state as early as 1898.

Beginning in 1890 he taught school for eight years in Utah. For 15 years he was an employee of the U.S. Forest Service and it was in that capacity that he arrived in Snowflake, Arizona, to be supervisor of the Sitgreaves National

Forest. He also practiced law in Snowflake.

He died there on October 22, 1938, at the age of 64 years.

3. LORENZO HUBBELL

3. Lorenzo Hubbell, Senator from Apache County in the First Arizona

State Legislature, was already well acquainted with the lawmaking process, having served on the Council of the Seventeenth Territorial Legislature in 1893.

In the State Senate he was on the committees on Finance and Revenue;

3udiciary; Banking and Insurance; Private Corporations; and Enrolling and

Engrossing.

3ohn Lorenzo Hubbell was born in Pajarito, New Mexico Territory, on

November 27, 1853, son of Captain 3ames L. Hubbell and 3ulianita Gutierrez.

He knew Spanish before he learned English at Farley's Presbyterian School in

Santa Fe. He worked in the Albuquerque post office until he earned enough money to buy a horse and saddle. He then started his travels into Utah and

Arizona, working for a time at Kanab, Utah, where he learned a little of the

Navajo Language. After unexplained trouble at the trading post there, he

-405- escaped Kanab and was rescued by a band of Piutes, whose women cared for him and earned his lifelong gratitude and friendship. His travels after 1S73 took him to the Hopi country and into the heart of Navajo land. There, because he had saved the life of a drowning Navajo, he was made a "brother'1 of the whole tribe, and established what became one of the most successful trading posts ever to exist on the Navajo Reservation, at his homestead where Ganado is now located.

In 1879 he married Miss Lina Rubic, and became the father of two daughters and two sons.

He served as territorial sheriff of Apache County in 1885 and 1886 when a peace officer's life was constantly in danger. In addition to being senator in

1912, he also was chairman of the Republican State Committee.

J. Lorenzo, also known as Don Lorenzo because of his Spanish genteel background, died November 11, 1930, at his trading post at Oraibi, in the Hopi country. He was buried on a lone hill at Ganado, mourned more by the Navajos than any others.

CARROLL HUDSON

Carroll Hudson served two terms in the House of Representatives from

Maricopa County, having been appointed to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of W. H. Wedel on January 13, 1943. His appointment became effective January 16 so he served the entire term of the Sixteenth Legislature.

He was elected to the Seventeenth.

During his two terms he was vice chairman and then chairman of the committee on Suffrage and Elections, and was a member of the committees on

Child Welfare; Judiciary; Ways and Means; Printing and Clerks; Public Health; and Appropriations.

-406- Mr. Hudson was born at Marble, Arkansas, on April 11, 1884, to D. L. and

Elretta Hudson. He completed elementary school.

On August 19, 1906, he married Esther M. Hargis and they became the parents of two children.

He was an office supplies salesman and was well known in Maricopa

County.

He died in Phoenix on March 21, 1957, just before his 73rd birthday.

HAROLD L. HUFFER

Harold L. Huff er, Flagstaff gasoline and oil jobber, was appointed to the

Arizona House of Representatives during the Twenty-seventh Legislature, on

July 16, 1965, to fill the unexpired term of Dr. Charles W. Sechrist, who died in office.

Mr. Huffer was named to the same committees held by Dr. Sechrist—vice chairman of Public Health and Welfare; and a member of the committees on

Appropriations; Education; Suffrage and Elections; and Tourist and Industry

Development. (He subsequently was elected to three more terms in the House, retiring in 1973.)

Harold L. Huffer was born at Sharon, Kansas, on September 23, 1901, to

C. L. Huffer and Josephine Huffer. He finished elementary school and graduated from high school there. By 1925 he had moved to Arizona, and in 1929 located at

Flagstaff where he became established in the petroleum distribution business.

He organized his own Huffer Oil Company there and made himself a valuable citizen of the community. He carried on his distribution of Shell Oil Company products for some 45 years, retiring in 1970.

-407- He was on the Flagstaff City Council for four years, and on the Coconino

County Board of Supervisors for seven years, of which he was chairman four

years. He was president of the Arizona Supervisors and Clerks Association for the year 1964.

Mr. Huffer was married on June 9, 1928 at Prescott, Arizona, to Eva

Guess, and became the father of a daughter.

In addition to his business and political activity, Mr. Huffer was a

longtime member and past president of the Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce.

He was also a member of the Flagstaff Masonic Lodge and the Elks Lodge and a

founding member of the Coconino Country Club.

Harold Huffer, Sr., died December 1, 1987, at Sun City, where he and

Mrs. Huffer had lived since the mid-1970's, survived by his widow, Eva, a

daughter and two grandchildren.

JOHN C. HUGHES

John C. Hughes, Phoenix Democrat, served in the House of

Representatives of the Twenty-third Legislature from Maricopa County. While there he was a member of the committees on Judiciary, of which he was vice chairman; Banking and Insurance; Public Health; and Ways and Means.

He was born in Phoenix on February 18, 1928, to Dr. Coit I. Hughes and

Hattrude Bell Hughes. He graduated from Phoenix elementary schools and

Phoenix Union High School, attended Phoenix College and graduated from the

University of Arizona School of Law with a Bachelor of Laws degree.

John C. Hughes and Nancy M. Kinney were married in Los Angeles on

April 20, 1949, and became the parents of five children: Nancy T., Wendy K.,

John K., Michael C. and Elisabeth A.

-408- He passed the bar upon graduating from the University, and engaged in

the general practice of law in Phoenix. During part of his career he served as a

lobbyist for the Fraternal Order of Police and the Association of Professional

Firefighters. He claimed credit for assisting in the passage of the Public

Personnel Pension Act in 1968.

Mr. Hughes joined the U.S. Naval Reserve and went on active duty in July

1943. He served in the Pacific Theater of Operations on an airplane tender in

campaigns at Palau, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He was discharged in the rank of

Lieutenant 3G, having been advanced from seaman during his service. He served

on the USS St. George and the USS Yavapai.

In 1988 he continued the practice of law in Phoenix and maintained his

live interest in political legislative affairs.

JOHN T. HUGHES

John T. Hughes, son of Territorial Governor L. C. Hughes and Josephine

Brawley Hughes, suffragette leader in Arizona, was a member of the First State

Senate from Pima County.

In the State Senate he was particularly interested in promoting equal suffrage of which his mother was a stalwart leader. He promoted anti-cigarette legislation without success, but was recognized as an authority on land matters.

He served on the committees on Appropriations; Judiciary; Municipal

Corporations; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; Suffrage and

Elections; Education and Public Institutions; and Printing and Clerks.

Because of ill health he withdrew from the campaign for re-election in

1914, but gave support to the initiative to place equal suffrage on the ballot.

-409- He was the second white child born in Tucson, in 1874, but was sent to

California and Penreylvania for his early schooling, attending a secondary school in New Jersey before taking a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania at

Philadelphia.

He was admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania and Illinois but returned to

Tucson to study and practice journalism at the family newspaper, the Arizona

Daily Star, of which he became manager and associate editor.

He served two years as county school superintendent of Pima County in

1899 and 1900. He earlier served as a page at Arizona's Constitutional

Convention of 1891 and was secretary to his father when the latter was Governor of Arizona in 1895.

He served a term as a member of the University of Arizona Board of

Regents, and was credited with obtaining funds from the Legislature for

University buildings prior to 1921. He also supported the School for the Deaf and the Blind in Tucson.

John T. Hughes died on November 14, 1921 at the age of 47 years, highly esteemed by friends and acquaintances alike for his "earnestness and integrity."

His mother and sister survived him.

T. A. HUGHES

T. A. Hughes, Cochise County Democrat, was elected to the House of

Representatives in the Third Legislature and to the State Senate in the Fourth

Legislature.

During his two years in the House he was a member of the committees on

Banking and Insurance, of which he was the chairman; Education; and Capitol

Building.

-410- In the State Senate he was the chairman of Banking and Insurance; and a

member of the committees on Finance; Mines and Mining; Corporations;

Appropriations; Public Health and Statistics; and Public Institutions.

Mr. Hughes introduced two bills in the Third Legislature, one pertaining to the sale of school district bonds and the other amending the school code.

Neither went beyond the standing committees of the House.

In the Senate in the Fourth Legislature he introduced 10 bills and a joint resolution. The four bills that were signed by the Governor pertained to the handling of State funds to promote safekeeping; the investment of State funds; an amendment to the law pertaining to fire companies in unincorporated cities and towns; and the duties of the Superintendent of Banks.

His joint resolution, pertaining to the League of Nations, was approved.

Mr. Hughes did not leave a record of his personal life and career, nor was such information found by research.

MARSHALL HUMPHREY II

Marshall Humphrey, a Chandler farmer and Republican, served three terms in the House of Representatives from Maricopa County from January 1959 to January 1965. (Later he was elected to the State Senate and served a term as

President in 1967-1968.)

During his six years in the House, he held membership two terms each on the committees on Agriculture and Irrigation; Planning and Development; and

Appropriations. He served one term each on Fish and Game; Livestock and

Public Lands; and Rules.

Marshall Humphrey n was born in Phoenix on July 10, 1929, to Marshall

Humphrey, Sr., and Ruth McComas Humphrey. He attended Kenilworth

- 411 - Elementary School, Phoenix College and Arizona State University before taking

his Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture from the University of Arizona.

He was married on June 2, 1951, at Phoenix to Carolyn Parsons. They

became the parents of three sons, Marshall III, Max "Buddy" and Timothy

Parsons. The Humphreys belong to the Episcopal Church, and he is active in the

Masonic orders and is a member of the Chandler Rotary Club.

He was honored after his illustrious legislative career in having the

Chandler schools name one of its new buildings the "Marshall Humphrey II

Elementary School."

During his entire vocational career he has called himself a farmer, and by

1988 had been engaged in cotton farming for 37 years. During those years he

was involved in processing agricultural products as well as growing them. He had

served as an official of both the Serape Cotton Oil Company and the Chandler

Ginning Company.

GORDON HUNT

Gordon Hunt, a Phoenix Republican, was elected to the House of

Representatives from Maricopa County in the Twentieth Arizona Legislature, serving in 1951 and 1952. He was a member of the committees on Counties and

Municipalities; Fish and Game; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; and

Highways and Bridges.

He was born on March 3, 190*1, at Duluth, Minnesota, to Leslie and Laura

Hunt. At Superior, Wisconsin, he obtained his early education, and studied law at

Ironwood, Michigan. He changed directions and studied for the ministry at the

Southwestern Theological Seminary at F t. Worth, Texas, until he was advised to

change vocations for health reasons.

-412- He married Emily Wedholm on December 23, 1922, at Anoka, Minnesota.

After her death he married Margaret Dix on 3une 14, 1946, at Phoenix, Arizona.

He became the father of two daughters and three sons.

Mr. Hunt moved to Arizona in 1946, and continued in the upholstery business, which he operated until his retirement.

He had been a resident of Arizona for 30 years when he died in Phoenix on

Uune 30, 1976 at the age of 72 years. He was survived by his widow, Margaret, and by all five children.

JOE S. HUNT

Joe S. Hunt, popular Cochise County cattleman, was elected to the State

Senate for the Twelfth and Thirteenth Legislatures, serving from January 1935 to January 1939. During his two terms in the Senate he was a member of the committees on Livestock, of which he ,vas chairman both terms; Municipalities;

Education, both terms; Agriculture and Forestry; Public Lands, both terms;

Methods of Business; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; and

Judiciary.

Joe S. Hunt was born on August 27, 1895, at San Antonio, Texas, son of

C. P. and S. M. Hunt.

After completing high school he trained to be a YMCA secretary.

He and his brother, Dr. C. H. Hunt of the medical staff of the Copper

Queen Hospital of Bisbee, owned a large cattle ranch in Cochise County and the

Honeymoon Ranch 42 miles northwest of Clifton in Greenlee County.

After his service in the State Senate, he was appointed in September of

1940 to the State Livestock Sanitary Board, by Governor Robert T. Jones, and

- 413 - was confirmed by the Senate in the Special Session, just two weeks before his accidental death at the Honeymoon Ranch.

While working cattle on October 6, 1940, the saddle girth broke, and he became entangled in the straps and rope, and was dragged over rocks by his frightened horse, and was fatally injured.

He was secretary for boys' work in the Bisbee YMCA at the time of his death. Before becoming involved in ranching he spent four years in social service work. He was but 45 years old, having spent 40 years of that time in

Arizona.

JOHN E. HUNT

John E. Hunt was elected to the House of Representatives in the

Eighteenth Legislature from Maricopa County, serving in 1947 and 1948. He was then elected to the State Senate in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Legislatures, serving from 1949 through 1952.

In the House he was a member of the committees on Edication; Labor;

Petitions and Memorials; and Reconstruction and Unemployment. In the Senate he was a member both terms of the committees on Agriculture and Irrigation;

Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; Employees and Supplies; and

Enrolling and Engrossing, being chairman of Agriculture and Irrigation for one term.

For one term each he was a member on the committees on Edication;

Public Health; Public Lands; Labor and Capital; and Livestock.

John E. Hunt was born at Eden, Arizona in Graham County, on July 19,

1905, son of John Enos Hunt and Anna Moyes Hunt. He attended Thatcher schools and Gila College, and later took business courses in San Francisco.

-414- He was married on October 4, 1928, at Thatcher to Irene Brown, and they

became the parents of three children.

He was engaged in hotel service for a time, and became a member of the

American Federation of Labor and of the Phoenix Labor Council. Later he was a

tavern owner and real estate broker. He was a Republican early in life but

changed to the Democratic Party in which he was a member when elected to the

Legislature.

Mr. Hunt died on August 14, 1982.

RUTH I. HUNT

Ruth I. Hunt, a Phoenix homemaker, was elected to the House of

Representatives from Maricopa County in the Twenty-second Legislature. While

there she was a member of the committees on Administration; Health; Public

Institutions; and Suffrage and Elections.

Mrs. Hunt was born on September 9, 1908, at Carlinville, Illinois. She

received her schooling in Illinois. She was the daughter of Harry M. Groves and

Anna McMahan Groves.

On June 11, 1927, she was married at Granite City, Illinois, and became

the mother of two sons. (Her biographical data sheet does not mention the name

of her husband.)

She arrived in Arizona on January 11, 1930, and during subsequent years

she was employed as a saleslady, cashier and clerk.

Later information concerning her life was not located. WILLIAM (BILL) HUSO

William (Bill) Huso, after seeking a seat in the House of Representatives

on two occasions, was elected to the State Senate in the Twenty-sixth

Legislature. Two years later he was re-elected.

In the Twenty-sixth Legislature he served on the committees on Tourist

and Industry Development, of which he was chairman; Education, of which he

was vice chairman; Agriculture and Irrigation; Banking and Insurance;

Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; Enrolling and Engrossing; Labor

and Management; and Livestock and Public Lands.

In the Twenty-seventh Legislature he was a member of the committees on

Labor and Management; Livestock and Public Lands; Mines and Mining and

Tourist and Industry Development.

William Huso was born at 3oice, Iowa on October 15, 1909, to Theodore and Tilda Evenson Huso, of Norwegian ancestry. He went to a one-room school near home and then attended Joice High School for two years, but graduated in

1926 from Lake Mills, Iowa, High School. He was in Waldorf Junior College at

Forest City before entering St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he earned a Bachelor's degree and a teaching certificate.

Unable, in the Depression, to get a teaching job, he worked for a bank and became cashier within a year; was employed in a farm agent's office for two years. In 1935, because of asthma, he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico and then went to Holbrook, Arizona to work for A. & B. Schuster Company, a pioneer mercantile establishment.

In Holbrook he met Irene Frost to whom he was married on December 31,

1939, there, and a year later went to Globe to work for an employment office;

- 416 - then to Phoenix. His asthma kept him out of the military service and he became manager of the Gila River Japanese Relocation Center at Rivers.

After the war he joined John M. Scott in a partnership at Show Low in a

retail store and service station. In 1952, after a damaging fire, he obtained sole ownership and thereafter until his death, he operated that popular business.

He and Irene became the parents of three children.

Mr. Huso died on February 17, 1973, at the age of 63 years.

ETTA MAE HUTCHESON

Etta Mae Hutcheson was appointed by the Pima County Board of

Supervisors to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Larry Woods from the

Arizona House of Representatives in the Twenty-first Legislature. She was seated in the First Special Session on October 13, 1953. She then was elected to the seat in consecutive terms for 12 years, through the Twenty-seventh

Legislature. (Mrs. Hutcheson also later served in the Twenty-eighth and

Thirtieth Legislatures.)

During her elected terms, through the Twenty-seventh Legislature, for five terms she was a member of the committees on Judiciary; and Suffrage and

Elections. For four terms she was on the committee on Administration; for two terms she was on the committees on County and Municipal Affairs; Welfare;

Public Health; and Rules; and for one term each, on Highways and Bridges;

Labor; Public Institutions; Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs; Appropriations; and Natural Resources.

Mrs. Hutcheson was born on August 6, 1892, at Weed, New Mexico. Her parents were Samuel Baldwin Oimstead and Clarisa Armenia Wolf Olmstead.

They moved from New Mexico to Arizona when she was two weeks old.

- 417 - She attended the Tucson schools through the high school grades.

She was married to William E. Dalton In 1911. He died in 1914, and she married Oril O. Hutcheson at Tucson on August 21, 1917. She became the mother of one son and one daughter. When she ran for the Legislature, she listed herself as a homemaker, and a fervent Democrat, having been active in the party from the time the vote was given to women in Arizona in 1914.

Affectionately known as "Ma Hutch", she was living in retirement in

Tucson in late 1988.

ROBERT HUTTO

Robert Hutto was a member of the House of Representatives from

Maricopa County in the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh

Legislatures. He was a leader in organized Labor, and served on these standing committees:

In the Twenty-fifth: Administration; Banking, Insurance and Corporation;

County Affairs of which he was vice chairman; Labor; Municipalities; Public

Health; and Suffrage and Elections.

In the Twenty-sixth: Highways and Bridges; and Ways and Means.

In the Twenty-seventh: Agriculture and Irrigation; Fish and Game; and

Municipalities.

Robert H. (Bob) Hutto was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, on October 31,

1914, son of Robert M. Hutto and Iona Wales Hutto. His schooling included elementary and high school grades. He lived in Arizona from 1923 to 1933 and again after 1946, when he returned.

He was married in San Diego, California, and was the father of one son.

- 418 - Mr. Hutto was business representative of the International Association of

Machinists, when elected to the Legislature, which post he had held for seven

years.

Mr. Hutto was living in Silver City, New Mexico, in 1989.

THOMAS 3. IMLER

Thomas 3. Imler, Phoenix neon sign manufacturer and a Democrat, was

elected to the House of Representatives in the Twelfth Legislature, serving in

1935 and 1936. During his term he was chairman of the committee on Fish and

Game and a member of the committees on Efficient Government; State and

National Defense; and Banking and Insurance.

Mr. Imler was bom at Little Rock, Arkansas, on March 11, 1889, son of

Robert Hysel Imler and Drusilla Imler. He graduated from high school. He was involved in outdoor advertising and sign making from 1901, becoming a designer and pictorial artist. He established the Imler Sign Works in Phoenix, having arrived in Arizona in 1909.

He was married on October 8, 1908, at Troy, Kansas, to Esta McKinley, and they became parents of two sons.

He joined the National Guard in 1925 as a Sergeant, and in 1927 was appointed First Lieutenant and served as an ordnance officer on the State staff.

At the time of his death he was a retired Major in the Arizona National Guard.

He was one of the leading sportsmen of the Southwest, and expert rifleman and hunter. He was on the Arizona Game and Fish Commission during

1936 and 1937.

Mr. Imler was an active Phoenix civic leader, and served on the City

Council from 1948 to 1950.

-419- He died of a heart attack in Phoenix on October 6, 1953, at the age of 64 years.

3. A. R. IRVINE

3. A. R. Irvine was elected to the House of Representatives of the First

Arizona State Legislature from Maricopa County, and served in the Regular

Session and three special sessions.

In the Legislature he was on the committees on Public Lands; Suffrage and Elections; Public Expenditures; and Petitions and Memorials, and was chairman of the commitee on Agriculture and Irrigation. In the special sessions he also was a member on the committees on Banking and Insurance;

Corporations; County and County Affairs; and State Accounting and Methods of

Business.

He was a native of Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada, having been born on November 2, 1859, of Scotch ancestry. He moved with his family to

California when he was 10 years old, in 1869, and there attended school for nearly four years before moving to Arizona.

His father, Edwin Irvine, was one of the incorporators of the City of

Phoenix. He also was a leading merchant of Phoenix, having purchased the Irvine

Block, including 35 East Washington Street. At one time the mule corrals and

warehouses, the freight depot and offices of the Irvines were located where the

Heard Building later was located. And the Irvine family once owned the entire

block bounded by Central Avenue, West Monroe Street, First Avenue and West

Adams Street.

- 420- 3. A. R. Irvine was on the Phoenix City Commission for eight years, was prominent in business circles, being on the Board of Trade. He also was a trustee in the Methodist Church.

He married Nancy 3. Gregg of Tempe, on September 11, 1878, from a pioneer family, and they became parents of 12 children.

Mr. Irvine died on September 24, 1927 in Phoenix, at the age of 68 years.

LEWIS IRVINE

Edward Lewis Irvine was elected to the House of Representatives from

Maricopa County in the Eleventh Arizona Legislature, and served in 1933 and

1934. He was a member of the committees on Corporations; 3udiciary;

Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; and Enrolling and Engrossing.

A Phoenix businessman and Democrat, Mr. Irvine was born on

December 20, 1898, at Phoenix, son of Thomas E. Irvine and Frances Isabella

White Irvine. He attended Phoenix schools through high school and spent two years at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

He enlisted in the Army Air Service on February 4, 1918, and was discharged on December 13, 1918, and afterwards served as Arizona State

Veterans' Service Officer under appointment of Governor G. W. P. Hunt from

February 11, 1931, to3anuary 7, 1933.

Mr. Irvine married Margaret Loflin at Bisbee, Arizona, on October 28,

1922, and they became parents of one child.

He participated in World War II and in the Korean conflict, and afterward commanded a unit of the Air Force, from which he retired in 1957 as a

Lieutenant Colonel.

-421- He left Arizona in 1965 for Los Alamitos, California, and died on April 22,

1976 in Long Beach, survived by his daughter, Joan, and two stepsons, John and

Charles Silverthorne.

PHILLIP A.ISLEY

Phillip A. Isley, Mesa Democrat, served the people of his district in

Maricopa County in the House of Representatives of the Twelfth and Thirteenth

Legislatures from January 1935 to January 1939.

In the Twelfth Arizona Legislature he was on the committees on

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

Agriculture and Irrigation. In the Thirteenth Legislature he was on the

committees on Capitol Building and Grounds; Agriculture and Irrigation; Fish and

Game; and Judiciary.

Mr. Isley was born March 30, 1886, at Wheeler, Illinois, son of R. A. Isley

and Mary Koontz Isley. He attended the public schools of Illinois.

He married on March 3, 1907, at Wheeler, Casper County, Illinois, and

became the father of two children.

He arrived in Arizona in 1915 and entered the automobile business in the

1930s. In January 19*19 he became the first executive director of the Arizona

Automobile Association, and in February of that year he was appointed State

Dairy Commissioner by Governor Dan E. Garvey.

Mr. Isley was elected Treasurer of Maricopa County in 1950, and served from 1951 to January 1961. And served a term on the Board of Supervisors of

Maricopa County. For eight years he was president of the Mesa Chamber of

Commerce, and was past president of the Mesa Lions Club and Mesa Hiram Club.

He died in Mesa on August 31, 1962, at the age of 76 years.

-422- VERNETTIE O. IVEY

Mrs. Vernettie O. Ivey, clubwoman and a Democrat, was elected to the

House of Representatives In the Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Arizona Legislatures, to serve the people of Maricopa County from January 1923 andJanuary 1931.

In the Sixth Legislature she was a member of the committees on Public

Health and Statistics of which she was chairman; Education; Public Institutions; and Suffrage and Elections. In the Eighth Legislature she was on the committees on Accounting and Business Methods; County Affairs; Public Health; and Public

Institutions. In the Ninth Legislature she was chairman of the Education committee and served on the committees on Public Institutions; Ways and Means; and Child Welfare.

Mrs. Ivey was born on January 1, 1876, at Blackburn, Missouri, and arrived in Arizona in 1895. She was the daughter of Robert Oscar Greene and Susan

Guinn Greene. After completing her basic schooling in Missouri, she attended the Tempe Territorial Normal School.

She was married on August 4, 1897, to James Pleasant Ivey at Phoenix and became the mother of a daughter in 1901.

Mrs. Ivey was active in club and church affairs, being a charter member of the Tolleson Christian Church; past president of the Rebekah Lodge; past matron of the Order of Eastern Star; past president of the Phoenix Women's Club and the Fowler Women's Club; member of the First Families; and of the

Organization of Women Lawmakers.

Mrs. Ivey was on the State Child Welfare Board under Governors G. W. P.

Hunt and John C. Phillips. Her legislative interests were with child welfare and

-423- women's benefits, and she was credited with enactment of the legislation

providing matrons at the Arizona Women's Prison.

She died at Tempe on July 15, 1967, at the age of 91 years.

M .E. JACKS

Maston Edward Hacks, Douglas Democrat, represented Cochise County in

the Third Legislature in the lower house from January 1917 to January 1919. He

was a member of the committees on Mines and Mining Ways and Means; and

Enrolling and Engrossing.

Mr. Hacks was born in Helena, Arkansas, in 1883 and moved to Arizona in

1906. During his years in Arizona he worked at mining with the Calumet and

Arizona Mining company and the Phelps Dodge Corporation, until his retirement

in 1967.

He died in Douglas, Arizona, on October 19, 1961, survived by his wife,

Eunice, two daughters and two sons, and several grandchildren.

LEON S. JACOBS

Leon S. Jacobs, native of Phoenix, lived to be the last surviving member

of the First Arizona State Legislature. He was elected to the House in

December 1911 to serve in the Regular and the three Special Sessions.

In the Legislature, in addition to his work on the Code revision, he served on the committees on Mines and Mining Militia and Public Defense; and Public

Health and Statistics in the Regular Session, and on Enrolling and Engrossing

Judiciary; and State Institutions and Expenditures in the Special Sessions.

He was elected to the Legislature when only 25 years old, and it was after service in the Regular Session and the Special Sessions in 1912 and 1913 that he was admitted to the State Bar of Arizona in 1914. Most of his legal training

-424- came from working in law offices in Phoenix. His first legal associate was Frank

H. Lyman, who later became a justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.

Jacobs felt that the enactment of the Penal Code in the Third Special

Session of the First State Legislature, was the greatest achievement of that

Legislature. Young as he was, at 25, he served as chairman of the Code Revision

Committee.

Jacobs was associated in legal practice also with George P. Bullard, who was the first State Attorney General of Arizona, for seven years from 1916 to

1923, after which he practiced alone.

Leon Jacobs was born in Phoenix on June 27, 18S6, son of Marcus and

Katie Goodman Jacobs. He attended Phoenix schools, graduated from Phoenix

Union High School and Lamson's Business College.

When he died in Phoenix on February 27, 1982, he was just four months short of having reached his 96th birthday.

ANTHON E. JACOBSON

Anthon Ephriam Jacobson, a Democrat, was elected to the House of

Representatives of the First Arizona State Legislature and served through the

Regular and the three special sessions from 1912 through 1914, from Graham

County.

In the Legislature he was on the committees on Ways and Means; Public

Lands; Appropriations; Agriculture and Irrigation; Labor; Public Health and

Statistics; Public Expenditures; Petitions and Memorials; and Printing and

Special Sessions.

He was born in Paris, Idaho, on April 12, 1874, and at the age of nine moved with his family to the Sierra Valley of Colorado. In 1885 his mother died

-425- and his father took his five boys and three girls to the Gila Valley of Arizona,

settling in Saff ord.

The family settled on a farm, and Anthon attended the public schools of

Safford, and later went to Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He

returned to Safford in 1894 and worked for three years before filling a mission

for his church in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Returning in 1899, he took charge

of the family farm, and in the years that followed he became a businessman,

bank director, hotel owner and civic leader in Safford and Graham County.

He married Cora Owens on October 18, 1897, and was the father of one

son and one daughter.

Anthon E. Jacobson moved to Phoenix in 1922 where he set up the

practice of a naturopathic physician, and for the last 20 years of his life lived in the capital city.

He died in Phoenix on November 9, 1942.

W .C. JACQUIN

William C. Jacquin, Tucson Republican, was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives from Pima County in the Twenty-seventh Legislature.

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

Bridges; Judiciary; Municipalities; and Suffrage and Elections. (Mr. Jacquin later served in the State Senate in the Twenty-eighth through the Thirty-first

Legislatures. He was President of the Senate during the last two terms, from

1971 through 1974.)

Mr. Jacquin was born September 1, 1935, at Peoria, Illinois, son of W. C .

Jacquin and Katheryne Neihaus Jacquin. He graduated from Peoria High School

-426- in 1953, received alBachelor of Arts degree from Wabash College at

Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1957, and moved to Arizona in 1961.

Having worked in life and health insurance sales after high school

graduation, he established himself in Tucson in the same vocation, but attended

the University of Arizona School of Law during 1962 and 1963.

He was married on August 21, 1959, at Kewanee, Illinois, to Deborah J.

Young, and they became the parents of three childrens Susan E., Gregg A. and

Lisa A. He ran successfully for the Legislature and served in the House in

1965-1966. After he left the Legislature in January 1975, he affiliated himself

with a revived Arizona Chamber of Commerce, and for the next 11 years served

as head of that organization, establishing it on a sound financial foundation and

making it a serious voice with a government advocacy program that worked with

the Arizona Legislature in matters of concern to causes of chambers of

commerce in Arizona.

In 1983 he launched his own business of consulting under the name of Issue

Management, Inc., in Phoenix. In 1988 this enterprise was doing well under his

personal management. FRED M. JAHN

Fred M. Jahn, printer and publisher and a Democrat, was elected to the

House of Representatives of the Sixteenth Arizona Legislature from Maricopa

County. He was vice chairman of the committee on Printing and Clerks; and a

member of the committees on Enrolling and Engrossing Appropriations; and

Institutional Reorganization.

- 427- Mr. Jahn was born on January 2, 1904, at Tombstone, Arizona, son of

William F. Jahn and Lula Graham Jahn. He completed high school before

learning the printer's trade.

In 1932 he started his own printing plant and a weekly newspaper, the

Southside Progress, at Tempe, which was the forerunner of the Scottsdale Daily

Progress. He merged his printing business with the Tyler Printing Company of

Phoenix in 1942.

His Jahn-Tyler Printing Company enjoyed many prosperous years.

Mr. Jahn served as president of the Mesa 20-30 Club and governor of the southwest district of that club, encompassing Arizona and Southeastern

California.

He was president of the Tempe Rotary Club; a member of the Tempe City

Council; and for six years secretary of the Chamber of Commerce in Tempe.

He married Elinor Johnson at Mesa on August 12, 1923, and they became parents of one daughter.

He died at Sun City, Arizona on September 14, 1976, at the age of 72 years.

ED L. JAMESON

Edward Lester Jameson, Kingman cattleman, was elected five times to the Arizona House of Representatives, serving Mohave County there from

January 1939 until January 1949. During his fined term, in the Eighteenth

Legislature, he was Speaker of the House.

During the four terms in which he held membership on standing committees, he was a member for three terms on the committees on Judiciary, of which he was chairman once; Public Lands of which he was chairman one term

-428- and vice chairman another; and Efficient Government of which he was chairman once and vice chairman once. For two terms he was on Livestock, being chairman once; and Appropriations. For one term each he served on Highways and Bridges; Ways and Means; Natural Resources; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; and County Affairs.

As Speaker he was ex officio chairman of the Rules Committee in the

Eighteenth.

Ed Jameson was born in Knox County, Nebraska, on October 28, 1884, and attended elementary and high school at Alliance, Nebraska. He was the son of

George L. Jameson and Elizabeth Colman Jameson. He did not marry.

He studied agriculture at the University of Nebraska and graduated in

1905. Moving to Arizona in 1910, he remained in the Phoenix area until 1928 when he chose the Kingman area for his cattle operations.

When he turned his attention to politics, he declared himself to be a

Democrat. He was a partner of John Neal for over 30 years in the Long

Mountain Ranch Company.

In his commmity he was president of the Chamber of Commerce, a leader in the work of the Masonic Lodge and adviser to the Rainbow Girls.

Statewide, he was one of the organizers of the planning commission.

Ed Jameson died onFebruary 4, 1960, at the age of 75 years.

NORVAL W. JASPER

Norval W. Jasper, Tucson attorney and a Republican, was elected to the

House of Representatives from Pima County to the Twenty-first Arizona

Legislature and served during 1953 to 1955. He held membership on the standing

-429- committees on County and Municipal Affairs; Suffrage and Elections; and

Judiciary. Mr. Jasper was born on July 10, 1918, at Indianapolis, Indiana, son of

Henry E. Jasper and Olga Koob Jasper. He attended the University of Indiana where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. His Bachelor of Laws degree was granted by the University of Arizona. He was married to Genevieve Hagan at Tucson on December 22, 1943, and

became the father of three children, a son Norval W. J r., and two daughters,

Judy Goyer and Janet Kellner. He passed the Arizona Bar in October 1951 and entered law practice in

Tucson, having just graduated from the University of Arizona College of Law.

Mr. Jasper served on the Board of Trustees of the Tucson public schools

from 1958 through 1963, became president of the State Bar of Arizona in 1965

for two years. He was active at one time or another in Republican politics at the local

level, was a supporter of the YMCA, an elder in the Presbyterian Church,

assisted in the House of Neighborly Service, Tucson neighborhood settlement

house, and participated in the Tucson Literacy Volunteers, teaching English to

immigrants and illiterates. In late 1988 he was continuing his practice of law with offices in

downtown T ucson. DAVIDSON (DAVE) JENKS

Dave Jenks, a Phoenix Republican, was elected to represent Maricopa

County in the lower House of the Legislature for terms beginning January 1963.

-430- He served in the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Legislatures. (Later he was

to be reelected to the Twenty-eighth.)

In the Twenty-sixth Legislature, Mr. Jenks was on the committees on

Banking, Insurance and Corporations; Municipalities; and Tourist and Industry

Developm ent.

In the Twenty-seventh Legislature he was a member of the committees on

Appropriations; Banking, Insurance and Corporations; Civil Defense and Veterans'

Affairs; and Highways and Bridges.

Mr. Jenks, a retired innkeeper, was born on May 7, 1909 at Cleveland,

Ohio, son of Benjamin L. Jenks and Louise Davidson Jenks. He graduated from

Shaker Heights High School in Cleveland and attended Williams College for two years.

He was married on January 17, 1934 in Cleveland and became the father of three children.

Mr. Jenks was living in Sun City, Arizona, in 1989.

CHARLES E. JENNINGS

Charles E. Jennings, a Phoenix Democrat, was appointed by the Maricopa

County Board of Supervisors to fill a vacancy in the Arizona House of

Representatives created by the death of his father, J. F. Jennings, after the

Regular Session of the Tenth Legislature. Charles took his seat in the First

Special Session in December, 1931. He was elected to the Eleventh Legislature, and served on the committees on Petitions and Memorials, of which he was chairman; Labor; Public Health; and Highways and Bridges.

- 431- Charles Jennings was born on November 18, 1894, in Kalamazoo,

Michigan, son of 3ohn Fisher Jennings and Josephine Preville Jennings. He

completed elementary school and three years of high school.

He was married on December 24, 1919, in Phoenix, to Marguerite Crowl, and they became the parents of three children.

Mr. Jennings was a plumber by trade and belonged to Plumbers' Union

No. 469. He served in the Army during World War I, and belonged to the

American Legion. He also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of

Roosevelt School District No. 66 in Maricopa County.

At the age of 83 years, Mr. Jennings died in a Phoenix hospital on

February 26, 1978, survived by his sons, Charles R. and Jack J., his daughter,

Dora Roll, 12 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Graveside services were held February 28 at Paradise Memorial Gardens.

EMOGENE MERCER JENNINGS

Mrs. Emogene Mercer Jennings was a member of the Arizona House of

Representatives in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Legislatures from

Maricopa County. During the first of her two terms she served on the

committees on Municipalities; Planning and Development; and Suffrage and

Elections. In the second term she held membership on the committees on

Planning and Development; Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs; Suffrage and

Elections; and Welfare.

Mrs. Jennings was born on November 10, 1903, at Dallas, Texas, daughter of William Judson Mercer and Emogene Louise Cotton. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1925 from the University of Arizona, and took post graduate work in education there.

-432- She arrived with her family in Arizona in 1917 and attended Miami High

School from which she graduated.

She was married on March 8, 1924, to Irving A. Jennings, Phoenix attorney, at Miami, Arizona, and they became parents of four children.

Mrs. Jennings, a Republican, was an active clubwoman, being a charter member of the Phoenix Junior Woman's Club and a life member of the Phoenix

Woman's Club. She also took active interest in the Florence Crittenton Home,

Red Cross, American Cancer Society and the Phoenix Little Theater.

She was commended by the U.S. Treasury Department for her services on the War Finance Committee in 1942, of which she wasArizona chairman.

Mrs. Jennings died on June 20, 1961, in Phoenix, at the age of 57 years.

HARRY JENNINGS

Harry Jennings, Cochise County Democrat and a miner, was a member of the House of Representatives in the Fourth Arizona Legislature, serving during

1919 and 1920. While there he was a member of the committees on Mines and

Mining, of which he was chairman; Game and Fish; and Public Lands.

Mr. Jennings was born at Westport, County Mayo, in northwestern Ireland, on June 12, 1870, son of Harry Jennings and Mary Muldoon-Claire.

He emigrated to the United States in 1895, and reached Arizona in the f ollowing year, where he became a miner, having entered that work at Leadville,

Colorado. He became a worker in the copper mines at Bisbee.

He was married on March 7, 1904, to Stella Muldoon, and became the father of three sons—Harry, Jr., Jack and Charles, and a daughter, Mary.

-433- Harry Jennings served in the United States Army in the Spanish-American

War, and in Arizona became State Commander of the United Spanish-American

War Veterans.

He lived in Bisbee until 1941 when he moved to Phoenix to become deputy

Registrar of Contractors for the State of Arizona, which position he held at the tim e of his death.

Mrs. Jennings died in 1951, and thereafter Harry lived with his son, Harry.

Harry Jennings died on January 19, 1954, at Memorial Hospital in Phoenix at the age of 81 years.

J .F . JENNINGS

John Fisher Jennings was elected, as a Democrat, to the Ninth and Tenth

Legislatures, serving in the lower house from Maricopa County from January

1929 to May 1931. While in the Legislature, Mr. Jennings was chairman of the committee on Public Health for both terms; and a member of the committees on

Labor; County Affairs; and Public Institutions.

He was praised by his colleagues in the House as being greatly loved and admired "for his sincere and courageous devotion to those principles of right and justice which he knew to be for the good welfare of the people of his constituency."

He was particularly interested in legislation pertaining to health and welfare, and introduced bills seeking a sanitary plumbing code for Arizona.

A birth date and a birthplace were not found for J. F. Jennings, but it was learned that he moved from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Arizona in 1916, and lived on Roeser Road in Phoenix.

-434- Mr. Jennings died on May 17, 1931, after having completed the work in

the Regular Session of the Tenth Legislature. He was succeeded in December, at

the opening of the First Special Session, by his son, Charles Jennings. He was

survived also by his widow, Josephine E. Jennings, four other sons and three

daughters. He suffered for two weeks prior to his death from intestinal

influenza.

RENZ L. JENNINGS

Renz L. Jennings, Democrat from Phoenix, was elected to the Tenth

Legislature from Maricopa County to serve in the House of Representatives in

1931. However, he resigned after the Regular Session to accept the post of

Assistant Attorney General under K. Berry Peterson. During the Regular Session

he was a member of the committees on Accounting and Business Methods;

Agriculture and Irrigation; Banking and Insurance; Constitutional Amendments

and Referendum; and Judiciary.

Mr. Jennings was born at Taylor, Arizona, on August 5, 1899, son of Cyrus

M. Jennings and Hannah Hanson Jennings. His parents died when he was a child

and he was raised by brothers and sisters, he being the youngest in the family of 12.

Elementary school in Taylor and High school in Snowflake constituted his

early education. He served in the Army in World War I, and returned to spend

two years at Brigham Young University where he excelled in oratory, as he had in high school. It was 1921 when he entered the University of Arizona where he

obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1923. After working in California, he

took a job with the Arizona Highway Department, studied law, and passed the

Arizona Bar in 1926.

-435- He was elected Maricopa County Attorney in 1932 and served one term.

Then he engaged in a successful private practice until 1949 when he was appointed judge of the Superior Court in Maricopa County. He served in that capacity for 12 years and was elected to the Arizona Supreme Court, where he served four years. He resigned to run for the United States Senate, but failed to win the Democratic nomination in 1964. He returned to private practice and gradually retired to be with his family.

He died of a heart attack on February 11, 19S3, while swimming at his home in Phoenix. He was survived by his widow, Leola LeSueur, whom he married on August 26, 1927, and by three of his four children.

A. A. (TONY) JOHNS

A. A. Johns, prominent woolgrower of Yavapai County, served four terms in the Arizona Legislature, being in the House during the Second, Third and

Thirteenth Legislatures and in the Senate in the Fourth Legislature.

In the Second Legislature he was on the committees on Rules;

Appropriations; Good Roads; Livestock; Public Lands; and was chairman of

Capitol Building and Grounds.

In the Third Legislature he was ex officio chairman of the Rules

Committee in his role as Speaker, in 1915 and 1916.

In the Fouth Legislature he was President of the Senate and chairman of the Rules Committee, in 1919 and 1920.

He was back in the House in the Thirteenth Legislature, and was on the committees on Livestock; Highways and Bridges; Public Institutions; and Public

Lands, being chairman of the latter.

-436- Anthony Arthur Johns was born in Cornwall, England, on June 10, 1864, the son of Anthony Arthur and Margaret Richards Johns. He arrived in Prescott,

Arizona, in 1882, at the age of 18 and became employed as a miner in Yavapai

County. Later he went to California and to British Columbia to work in mines, but returned to Prescott where he engaged in business, becoming head of the

Aubrey Investment Company. Under this firm name he engaged in real estate,

sheep ranching and road building.

In addition to his legislative service, he was a deputy sheriff of Yavapai

County from 1898 to 1912; fire chief in Prescott for 14 years; superintendent of

the Northern Arizona Fair at Prescott; member of the State Highway

Commission from 1932 to 1938; member of the University of Arizona Board of

Regents for 1925 and 1926; and president of the Arizona Wool Growers

Association for 14 years, retiring in 1937.

He was married to Cora Elizabeth Weaver, first white child born in

Prescott, daughter of B. H. Weaver, one-time owner of the Arizona Miner, oldest

newspaper in the state.

Mr. Johns was a leader in Masonic affairs in Prescott and Arizona, being

the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Arizona for a year, and active in the

Knights Templar, El Zaribah Shrine and the Eastern Star.

Mr. Johns died on May 24, 1944, in Prescott, after being a resident of

Arizona for 62 years.

A. W. JOHNSON

Alfred William Johnson, Yuma Valley farmer, served the people of his

district in the House of Representatives in the Tenth Legislature during 1931 and

- 437- 1932. During that term he was a member of the committees on Agriculture and

Irrigation; Banking and Insurance; and Enrolling and Engrossing.

Mr. Johnson was born in California on January 11, 1890, to Alfred E.

Johnson and Margaret E. Ridenour. He received a grammar school education in

California and Arizona. He moved to Arizona in 1899.

He married Mary C. Wharton in Yuma in 1914 and they became the parents of one child, a son. She died in 1922 in April, and he was married a second time on February 23, 1928, to Vera B. Ellis.

Mr. Johnson was a Republican, and signed himself as "A. W." Johnson.

In the House Mr. Johnson introduced but three bills during his term, one being to provide for a poet laureate for Arizona. None of his bills reached the

Governor.

No additional information was found pertaining to Mr. Johnson's career or family.

CHARLES A.JOHNSON

Charles A. Johnson, Yuma County farmer, was elected to the House of

Representatives to serve in the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Legislatures from January 1963 to January 1967. (Later he served in the Twenty-eighth and

T wenty-ninth.)

During his two terms he held membership on the committees on

Administration; Agriculture and Irrigation; Judiciary; Public Health and Welfare;

Suffrage and Elections; and Ways and Means.

Mr. Johnson was born on June 25, 1889 at Paris, Arkansas, son of William

D. Johnson and Vianna Johnson. Upon completing his public schooling, he

-438- attended the University of Arkansas for three years, after which he taught school for three years before entering the study and practice of law.

He was married on September 8, 1928 at Clermont, Florida, and became the father of a daughter and a son.

Later information about Mr. Johnson and his career was not located.

CHRISTOPHER T. JOHNSON

Christopher T. Johnson, Phoenix lawyer and a Republican, was elected tc the Arizona House of Representatives in the Twenty-seventh Legislature for

1965 and 1966. He was a member of the standing committees on Judiciary;

Labor; Public Institutions; and State Government. (He subsequently was elected to the T wenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Legislatures.)

He was bom on June 11, 1938, at Bartlett Dam, Arizona, son of Tom

Royce Johnson and Gertrude Curt Johnson. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in

Psychology degree and a law degree at the University of Arizona. He was admitted to the Arizona Bar on September 23, 1963.

Christopher Johnson was married on June 10, 1962, to Mary Monroe at

Reno, Nevada, and became the father of two children, Kristin Lee and Tom

Royce.

During his legislative years, and afterward, he has practiced law in

Phoenix under the name of "Chris T. Johnson, P. C." and was continuing to be active in that practice in 1988.

He is a member of the Maricopa County Bar Association and the Arizona

Bar Association. He is not affiliated with civic, fraternal or religious organizations.

- 439- CONNER JOHNSON

Conner Johnson, a Phoenix insurance man and a Democrat, was elected to the House of Representatives in the Tenth and Eleventh Arizona Legislatures and served from January 1931 to January 1935. Later he was appointed to serve out an unexpired term in 1942.

In the Tenth Legislature he was chairman of the committee on Banking

and Insurance; vice chairman of the committee on Corporations; and a member of the committee on Enrolling and Engrossing. In the Eleventh he was again

chairman of the committee on Banking and Insurance; was vice chairman of

Rules; and member of the committee on Accounting and Business Methods.

Following the Regular Session of the Fifteenth Legislature, Lorna

Lockwood resigned from her House seat and Conner Johnson was named by the

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to serve out the term. He participated in

the First Special Session in 1942, being named to the committees on Banking and

Insurance; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; Military Affairs; Ways

and Means; and Highways and Bridges.

He was born on June 23, 1902, at Hereford, Texas, son of David F.

Johnson and Jewell Johnson. The family moved to Douglas, Arizona, in 1908 and

to Phoenix in 1912 when his father became the first State Treasurer of Arizona.

He completed his public schooling in Arizona, graduating from Phoenix Union

High School. He attended Stanford University for three years.

He engaged in the insurance business in Phoenix and became a partner in

the Marlar, Johnson and Allen Insurance Company, of which he was president at

the time of his death. He was active in the Civil Air Patrol, Arizona Heart

Association, Sons of the American Revolution, and Phoenix Rotary Club.

-440- Mr. Johnson died at his Phoenix home on October 22, 1967, at the age of

65 years, survived by his widow, Lucille, two daughters and two brothers, as well as three grandchildren.

E. C. (JONNIE) JOHNSON

E. C. (Jonnie) Johnson, Parker garage owner, was elected by the voters of his northern Yuma County district to the House of Representatives in the

Twentieth Arizona Legislature and was reelected to the Twenty-first

Legislature. His service was from January 1951 to January 1955. He was on the same three standing committees in both terms, being chairman of the Fish and

Game committee in the Twentieth and vice chairman in the Twenty-first; and a member of Highways and Bridges; and Livestock and Public Lands during both terms.

Ellison Carroll Johnson was born at Alma, Arkansas, on January 19, 1912, son of Walter H. Johnson and Beatrice Wilson Johnson. He attended Peastel

Elementary School and Weatherford, Texas, High School, and graduated from the

Junior College at Weatherford. While still in Texas he worked in an oil refinery as a railroad switchman and a diesel mechanic. As an employee of the Bureau of

Indian Affairs, he was sent to the Colorado River Indian Reservation at Parker,

Arizona.

He married Frances Analla at Las Vegas, Nevada, in May 1939, and became the father of two children.

Mr. Johnson served eight years on the school board at Parker and eight years as Parker's fire chief. After leaving the Indian Service, he became the

Chevrolet automobile dealer and a garage owner in Parker.

- 441- He was an avid sportsman, member of the rod and gun club, and engaged in many similar activities.

While visiting Globe in August 1979, where his son was playing in a baseball tournament, he disappeared, after last being seen alive as he left the home of former legislative colleague Ray Langham.

His body was found in the Pinal Mountains south of Globe on October 8,

1979, by a horseman. No evidence of foul play was found, but neither was his presence in the mountains explained. He was buried in Parker, survived by his widow, Frances, a daughter, Marylynn Maddox and son, Walter, as well as a sister and a nephew.

GEORGE A. JOHNSON

George A. Johnson was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in the Eleventh Legislature and to the State Senate in the Twelfth Legislature.

During his House service from Maricopa County he was a member of the committees on Agriculture and Irrigation; Appropriations; and Judiciary. Two years later in the Senate he was on the committees on Enrolling and Engrossing as chairman; Style, Revision and Compilation as chairman; State Institutions;

Appropriations; Education; Highways and Bridges; and Agriculture and Forestry.

George A. Johnson was born at Spring Lake, Utah, on June 18, 1880, and moved with his parents, Benjamin F. and Sarah M. Johnson to Mesa, Arizona, in

1883. He attended grammar school in Mesa and went to Provo, Utah, to attend the Brigham Young Academy for a year.

He taught school for a time, and then spent five years working for the

Copper Queen Mine at Bisbee as a Spanish interpreter.

-442- He married Esma (sic) Bruton of Socorro, New Mexico, on May 10, 1902, and in 1904 opened a men's clothing store in Mesa which grew over the years to a large and successful establishment known as the "Toggery."

He was active in his community, being president of the Rotary dub; a member of the Boy Scout Coundl; served on the Mesa City Coundl for eight

years; and belonged to the Elks Lodge.

Mr. Johnson died on March 23, 1951, at his home in Mesa at the age of 70

years, survived by his widow and sons, G. Wesley, Richard G. and Dr. Ben B.

Johnson.

HARRY JOHNSON

Harry Johnson, Phoenix attorney, was elected to the House of

Representatives of the First Arizona State Legislature in the election of

December 1911, from Maricopa County.

In the Legislature he was interested in penal legislation, and he sponsored

a bill to exempt from license fees the producer of crops. He served on the

committees of Public Lands; Judidary; Constitutional Amendments and

Referendum; and Corporations, of which he was chairman in the Regular Session.

In the Special Sessions he was chairman of Constitutional Amendments and

Referendum and a member of Banking and Finance; Code Revision; Corporations;

and Militia and Public Defense.

He was born at Atlanta, Georgia, on October 3, 1882, and spent most of

his boyhood days on a cotton plantation in north Georgia. He received his

schooling in Tennessee, taught school for a year in Alabama, and attended

Cumberland University Law School (Tennessee) where he played baseball and

football and was president of the law sodety.

- 443- Following graduation from Cumberland University he passed the

Tennessee bar examinations and was admitted to practice before the Supreme

Court. He practiced law in Chattanooga until moving to Phoenix in 1907.

As a Democrat he was elected to the Legislature and later served two

terms as Maricopa County Attorney, retiring because of ill health in 1937. He

was a member of the Arizona State Bar and practiced in Phoenix until 1955 when he went to Yuma.

He died in Yuma on November 9, 1965. His sister, Mrs. Nell Etheridge, lived there.

3. R. (DICK) JOHNSON

J. Richard Johnson was elected by the voters of his district in Maricopa

County to the House of Representatives in the T wenty-third Legislature to serve during 1957 and 1958. During his term he was a member of the committees on

Fish and Game; Planning and Development; Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs; and Suffrage and Elections.

Mr. Johnson was born at Fort Wayne, Indiana on June 30, 1921, son of

Roscoe C. Johnson and Florence G. Unger Johnson. He finished elementary and high school.

He arrived in Arizona in 1947, and on August 8, 1950 was married at

Nogales. He became the father of one child, Paul Unger Johnson.

Additional information about Mr. Johnson was not located.

LINDSAY JOHNSON

Lindsay Johnson, a Maricopa County teacher and attorney, was elected to the House of Representatives in the Thirteenth Legislature. During his term he

-444- was a member of these standing committees: County and County Affairs;

Education; Public Health; Judiciary, and Capitol Building and Grounds.

Mr. Johnson was born at Graceland, Missouri on April 25, 1895, son of

S, F. Johnson and Maggie L. Johnson. He earned his Bachelor of Laws degree at the Kansas City School of Law.

The name of his wife and the place and time of his marriage was not recorded in the legislative biographical material, but he noted that he was a widower and father of a son.

He arrived in Arizona in May 1928, and made it a point to say he was a

"religious agnostic."

Additional information about Mr. Johnson was not located.

ALBERT M. JONES

Albert M. Jones, Prescott Democrat and stockman, was sent by his fellow citizens to represent his district and Yavapai County in the House of

Representatives in the Sixth Arizona Legislature.

During his term he was a member of the committees on Constitutional

Amendments and Referendum of which he was chairman; Good Roads; Petitions and Memorials; and Ways and Means.

Albert M. Jones was born at Llewellyn Farm, Fauquier County, Virginia,

on December 26, 1869, son of Thomas Marshall Jones, a Major General in the

Confederate Army, and Mary Cowan London Jones. He obtained his schooling in

the Warrenton, Virginia, schools.

The family moved in 1885 to Wyoming and in 1893 to Santa Fe, New

Mexico. Albert became identified with a national guard cavalry unit which was

mustered into volunter service in 1898 and became known as Troop E of the First

-445- U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, better known as the Rough Riders. He was guidon

sergeant at the battles of Las Guásimas and of San Juan Hill, as well as the siege

of Santiago de Cuba and its surrender in July 1898.

After the war he established himself at Seligman, Arizona, where he

developed a sheep outfit, and served as Justice of the Peace. He sold his sheep

in 1916 in Chino Valley, and moved to Prescott because of ill health.

Mr. Jones was a delegate to the Arizona Constitutional Convention from

Yavapai County, in 1910.

He was married on November 13, 1911, to Blanche Bailey Hoffman at

Albuquerque and they became the parents of a son, George.

Albert M. Jones died at Prescott on September 20, 1925, of heart failure.

ANNIE CAMPBELL JONES

Annie Campbell Jones, Prescott Democrat, was elected to the House of

Representatives from Yavapai County for three successive terms—to the Ninth,

Tenth, and Eleventh Arizona Legislatures.

During the three terms she was chairman of the committee on Efficient

Government twice, and served two terms each on the committees on Banking and

Insurance, and Labor. Other committees on which she held membership for one term each were Capitol Building and Grounds; Highways and Bridges; Militia and

Public Defense; and Livestock.

Miss Jones, who called herself a shorthand reporter (public stenographer) was bom on Llewellyn Farm, Fauquier County, Virginia, but she failed to say when. She was the daughter of Thomas Marshall Jones, Confederate Major

General, and Mary Cowan London Jones, and a sister of Albert M. Jones, another

Arizona legislator.

-446- Her education, after the basic schooling, was obtained at the Fauquier

Institute at Warrenton, Virginia; at a private school in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and at a business college in El Reno, Oklahoma. Too, she had one year of training at the St. Louis (Mo.) Free Library.

She arrived in Arizona on 3uly 10, 1908. Her career consisted of four years of social service work (Red Cross), four years in railroad office work; a deputy court reporter for Yavapai County; and 12 years as a public stenographer.

Much of her early political activity, which she began in 1912, dealt with woman's suffrage, which came to Arizona officially with the election of 1914.

Miss 3ones died in Phoenix on November 14, 1964, age 85 years.

DAN P. 3ONES

Daniel P. 3ones, pioneer resident and farmer of the Lehi-Mesa district of

Maricopa County, served in the House of Representatives of the First, Fifth and

Sixth State Legislatures, and in the Senate in the Eighth Legislature. He was

Speaker of the House in the Sixth Legislature, from 1923 to 1925.

In the Legislature he was especially interested in public education and agriculture. He was author of the bills establishing the public school system under Arizona's new constitution, and came to be recognized as the "father of the State public school system."

In the First Legislature, Regular Session, he served as chairman of the

Education committee, and as a member of the committees on Appropriations;

Good Roads; and Enrolling and Engrossing. In the Special Sessions he was again chairman of Education and a member of Agriculture and Irrigation; Labor; and

Public Lands.

-447- In his other two sessions in the House, he was on the committees on

County Affairs; Printing and Clerks; Constitutional Amendments; and Rules.

In the Eighth Legislature in the Senate, he was chairman of the committees on Agriculture and Forestry; and Employees and Supplies. He was a member of Finance; Methods of Business; Public Health; Education; and Suffrage and Elections.

After completing his term as Senator in the Eighth Legislature, he returned to serve as chaplain of the Senate in the Ninth and Tenth Legislatures.

Daniel P. Jones, known all his life as "Dan" P. Jones, was the son of Dan

W. Jones, pioneer colonist who moved his family from Utah to Arizona in 1877.

Young Dan was married in that year to Mary E. Merrill, and they became parents of 12 children. His mother was Harriet E. Colton.

Dan P. Jones was born in Fairview, Utah, on April 1, 1856, and attended school there, and later in Provo, Utah.

Dan P. Jones served as Justice of the Peace in Lehi from 1901 to 1926, and was prominent in affairs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

(Mormon) all of his life, serving many years on the High Council of Maricopa

Stake.

He died in Mesa on July 6, 1935, at his home on Hibbert Street.

GUY L. JONES

Guy L. Jones, Maricopa County rancher, was elected to the House of

Representatives in the Eighth Arizona Legislature and served on the committees on Efficient Government of which he was chairman; Agriculture and Irrigation;

Capitol Building and Grounds; Livestock; and Ways and Means.

-448- Guy Lincoln Jones was born April 15, 1880, at St. Louis, Missouri, son of

George I. Jones and Emma Keith Jones. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University.

He moved to Arizona in 1905 and for the next five years was employed by the Santa Fe Railroad. In 1911 he went to Mexico to be assistant manager of a hacienda for a time. In 1921 he bought a ranch in the Salt River Valley of

Arizona and remained in the state for the remainder of his life.

He was married on August 22, 1917, to Grace D. Bowman at Chicago, and they became parents of a boy and a girl.

Mr. Jones died on February 2, 1929, at Little Rock, Arkansas.

R .T . (BOB) JONES

Robert Taylor Jones, drug store owner at Superior, was elected to the

Senate from Pinal County to the Tenth and Eleventh Arizona Legislatures.

During both terms he was a member of the committees on Highways and Bridges of which he was chairman; Appropriations; Livestock; Labor and Capital; and

Employees and Supplies. He was, for one term each, on the committees on State

Institutions and Rules.

After the Eleventh Legislature, he moved from Superior to Mesa and opened drug stores there and one in Phoenix. He stood for election to the Senate from Maricopa County in 1936 and was elected. During the ensuing Thirteenth

Legislature, while in the Senate, he served on the committees on Methods of

Business of which he was chairman; Highways and Bridges; Appropriations; Rules;

Public Health; and Banking and Insurance.

Robert T. Jones was born at Rutledge, Tennessee, on February 8, 1880

(some records say 1884 but Mr. Jones recorded it 1880), the son of Samuel J.

- 449- Jones and Sarah Elizabeth Legg. He completed high school and attended night

school to study a course in engineering.

He worked with a construction crew for a while; turned contractor; went

to Panama to help in building the Canal; returned to work on railroad

construction in Nevada and Mexico and eventually reached Arizona in 1909 to

work on the Globe and Gila Valley Railroad. He assisted in construction of the

railroad from Kelvin to Ray Junction.

Mr. Jones was married on December 23, 1911, to Elon Marion Armstrong, daughter of a pioneer cattleman, at Dudleyville, Arizona, and became father of two children.

After his third term in the State Senate, he ran for Governor of Arizona, and in spite of a recent serious illness won the nomination and election and served during 1939 and 19*10.

Governor Jones, successful in operating drug stores in Superior, Mesa,

Phoenix and Tucson, died in Phoenix on June 11, 1958.

THORNTON JONES

Thornton Jones, Buckeye Irrigation Company accountant, was elected to the House of Representatives in the Eighteenth Legislature from Maricopa

County. During his term he served on the committees on Accounting and

Business Methods, of which he was chairman; Appropriations, of which he was vice chairman; Livestock; and Natural Resources.

Anthony Thornton Jones was born on February 9, 1883, in Kentucky, son of Thornton Jones and Lura G. Tuck Jones. He attended Richmond College at

Richmond, Virginia, for two years, and graduated from the Eastman Business

College at Poughkeepsie, New York.

-450- He married Lucille Penry at Plainview, Texas, on April 29, 1908. He arrived in Arizona in 1915 and homesteaded near Gila Bend. Later he obtained a small ranch in Salt River Valley. He had been secretary-treasurer for the

Buckeye Irrigation Company for 13 years by the time he went to the Legislature in 1946. Because of his familiarity with Arizona water law and administration, he

was named in 1950 by Judge Charles Bernstein of the Maricopa County Superior

Court to become the court's water commissioner to investigate situations involving alleged violations of the so-called "Kent Decree" concerning water

rights on the Salt River system in Arizona. He continued under other judges in succeeding years, and did not retire until December 1968, a few weeks prior to

his death, which occurred on January 20, 1969, less than a month short of his

87th birthday.

He moved to Phoenix in 1935 and about 1959 moved to Mayer where he

spent the last 10 years of his life. He was survived by Mrs. Jones, four sons, six

daughters, 17 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren as well as two brothers

and two sisters.

W.E.JONES

Walter Emmett Jones, locomotive engineer, was elected by his fellow

citizens of Cochise County to the House of Representatives in the Seventh and

Eighth Legislatures, serving from January 1925 to January 1929.

During those two terms he served on the committees on Labor of which he

was chairman both terms; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum both

terms; Counties and Municipalities; Highways and Bridges; and Ways and Means.

- 451- Mr. Jones was born at San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas where he

completed the grammar school grades. He arrived in Arizona in 1907.

On October 23, 1910 he married Rose Lee Billingsley at Douglas, Arizona.

They adopted three children.

Mr. 3ones was a locomotive engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad from 1907 to 1929, and served as General Chairman of the Brotherhood of

Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.

Further information concerning his life was not found.

FRANK E. JORDAN

Frank E. Jordan, Phoenix businessman, was elected to the House of

Representatives from Maricopa County in the Sixteenth Arizona Legislature.

During his term he held membership on the committees on Labor; Education;

Reconstruction and Unemployment; and Capitol Building and Grounds.

Mr. Jordan was bom on July 3, 1883, in New York City, the son of Frank

Viggo Jordan and Anna Larsen Jordan. He finished high school and then studied

by correspondence and in night school.

He married Marie L. Smith on October 7, 1904, In New York City, and

they became parents of five children.

The family moved to Arizona in 1927. His occupation was painter, and for

10 years he worked for others, but for the 5 years preceding 1942 when he was

elected to the Legislature, he was a painting contractor. He first settled in the

Oak Creek-Jerome area in Yavapai County, but later moved into Phoenix where

he operated his business until his death in a Phoenix hospital on September 5,

1948, at the age of 65 years.

-452- J . C. JORDAN

John C. (Jack) Jordan, real estate man and a Tucson Democrat, was

elected to the House of Representatives in the Twenty-fifth Legislature, from

Pima County. During his term there he was a member of the committees on

Administration of which he was vice chairman; Banking, Insurance and

Corporations; Civil Defense and Veterans' Affairs; Fish and Game; Public Health;

Tourist and Industry Development; and Welfare.

Mr. Jordan was bom on November 14, 1900, at Streator, Illinois, son of

Herman F. Jordan and Sarah J . Jordan. He attended the Naperville, Illinois, public schools and the North Central College at Naperville.

On February 4, 1939 he married Olga Behrens at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and they became the parents of two sons. They moved to Arizona in 1951.

For some years he was a salesman, then a newspaper publisher, with some time in the furniture business, before establishing himself in the reed estate business in Tucson. He operated the Soleng Realty Company at the time he was elected to the Legislature on the Democratic ticket, in 1956.

Information concerning his later years was not found.

SA M JOY

Sam Christy Joy was a member of the House of Representatives in the

Twenty-first Legislature from Maricopa County. He was a Glendale rancher.

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

Irrigation; Administration; and Labor.

He weis born November 15, 1900, at Allicince, Nebraska, son of Cyrus C.

Joy and Lulu C. Joy. The family moved to Arizona in 1912 and Sam finished basic schooling by graduating from Phoenix Union High School. He completed

-453- two years at Phoenix College. He played football in high school and set a high

jump record that stood for 15 years.

He was married on September 6, 192<1, and became the father of four

children, three girls and a boy.

The success of Mr. Joy's ranching enterprise was attested to by the

positions that he held. He was vice chairman of the Salt River Valley Water

Users' Council for a term; President of the Washington District Farm Bureau;

Director of the Agriculture War Commodities in World War II; member of the

Arizona Cattle Growers Association; and member of the Central Arizona

Feeders Association.

He also was district governor of Rotary International; President of the

Glendale Rotary Club; and a member of the Board of Education for Glendale

Union High School District.

Mr. Joy died on March 9, 1972 at the age of 71 years.

WILLIAM C. JOYNER

William C. Joyner, Tucson railroad man and Democratic leader, was elected to the Senate in the Eighth Arizona Legislature, serving from January

1927 to January 1929. He held membership on the standing committees on

Suffrage and Elections, of which he was chairman; Judiciary; Finance; Methods of Business; Public Defense; and Banking and Insurance.

Mr. Joyner was born in Newburg, Missouri, in 1880, and graduated from the Missouri School of Mines.

He moved to Tucson in 1920 as a trainman for the Southern Pacific

Railroad, and remained there for ten years, before moving to Phoenix where he lived 10 years.

-454- During his political career he was State Game Warden; Secretary of the

Democratic State Central Committee; and a member and representative of the

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.

He served two terms on the Board of Regents of the University of

Arizona; and was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having fought in Cuba.

While State Game Warden, he built the bass hatchery named for Governor

Hunt in Papago Park near Phoenix.

Before he left Arizona in 1940, he was Director of the Census for

Maricopa County. He then went with his wife to Waynesville, Missouri, where he entered the real estate business and continued in that activity until his death on

July 17, 1943.

Surviving were his wife, Lyda Long Joyner, and a married son and daughter in Tucson.

NEAL E. JUSTIN

Neal Eric Justin, a Tucson school teacher, was elected to the House of

Representatives in the Twenty-seventh Legislature from Pima County. During that term he was a member of the committees on County Affairs; Education; and

Tourist and Industry Development, serving in 1965 and 1966.

Mr. Justin was bom on May 9, 1936 at Argyle, New York, son of John A.

Justin and Anne M. Justin. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Florida

Southern College in 1959; a Bachelor of Foreign Trade at the American Institute of Foreign Trade at Glendale, Arizona in I960; and a Master of Education at the

University of Arizona in 1964.

-455- He was married on May 30, 1959 to Shirley Sue Johnson at Orlando,

Florida, and they were parents of one child by 1964 when he was elected to the

Legislature. He was elected on the Democratic ticket.

Additional information about Mr. Justin was not found.

WILLIAM J . KAMP

William Joseph Kamp, Sunnyslope advertising and promotion man, was elected to the House of Representatives in the Twenty-third Arizona Legislature from Maricopa County, serving in 1957 and 1958. He was a member of the committees on Planning and Development of which he was vice chairman;

Administration; Education; and Highways and Bridges.

Mr. Kamp was born on September 25, 1923, at Uion, New York, son of

Hugo Kamp and Mary Rether Kamp. He attended Riverside Junior College from which he graduated in 1949; graduated from Arizona State University in 1951; attended Redlands University for a semester and the American Institute of

Foreign Trade at Glendale, Arizona for a semester.

He was married at Phoenix on February 28, 1953, and became the father of three children, including twins.

At the time of his legislative service he was the director of William Kamp and Associates, an advertising and promotions firm.

Later information about Mr. Kamp was not found.

MATTHEW H. KANE

Matthew H. Kane was elected to the House of Representatives in the

First Arizona State Legislature and served during the Regular and three Special

Sessions from 1912 through 1914, from Greenlee County.

-456- In the Legislature he was chairman of the committee on County and

County Affairs, and was a member of the committees on Appropriations; Banking

and Insurance; Agriculture and Irrigation; State Accounting and Methods of

Business; and State Institutions and Expenditures.

He was born on March 4, 1869, in Wisconsin, the son of James Kane and

Anna Martin Kane. While he was still a small boy his parents moved to

Nebraska, where Matthew's playmates were Sioux Indians. He learned to speak

their language very fluently. He herded cattle as soon as he was old enough,

until he was 11 years old. Then he worked in a store, and when 17 became a

railway clerk. Still later he was a traveling salesman.

Mr. Kane moved to Butte, Montana, in 1890 about the time he became 21

years old, and operated a store. He was married in Butte in 1900, the year before he moved to Clifton,

Arizona, in which place he became manager of the department store for one of

Clifton's copper companies. He held that position at the time he was elected to

the First State Legislature in 1911.

Later information about Mr. Kane was not found.

OWEN A. KANE

Owen A. Kane served four terms in the House of Representatives from

Maricopa County, beginning with the Sixteenth Legislature in 1944 when he was

appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frank E. Jordan at the

outset of the Second Special Session. Mr. Jordan was in ill health.

Mr. Kane assumed the committee memberships held by Mr. Jordan which

were Education; Labor; Reconstruction and Unemployment; and Capitol Building

and Grounds.

-457- He was then elected to the Seventeenth Legislature and served during

1945 and 1946, when he was vice chairman of the committee on Banking and

Insurance, and a member of the committees on Education; Labor; and Suffrage and Elections.

He returned to the House for the Twentieth Legislature in 1951, and was reelected to the Twenty-first Legislature which convened in 1953. During these two terms he served on the committee on Education; and on Banking and

Insurance both terms; and on Health, Welfare and Corrections; and

Administration, one term each.

Owen A. Kane was born inLaRue, Marion County, Ohio, on May 23, 1881.

He was the son of Owen Kane and Catherine McCune Kane. After completing high school, he became a railroad telegrapher and dispatcher.

He was married on July 17, 1910, at San Antonio, Texas, and became the father of two children.

He moved to Arizona in 1911 as an employee of the Santa Fe Railroad, being a station agent and dispatcher. At the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico, where he spent a short time, he was Justice of the Peace.

He taught telegraphy in night classes at Phoenix Union High School for 16 years, and engaged in the insurance and real estate business until retirement in

1963.

He died in Phoenix on October 15, 1974, at the age of 93 years.

HARRY J. KARNS

Harry J. Karns is an example of a man who left a major imprint on the community he chose for his home. In addition to serving in the Senate of the

Second Arizona Legislature, he was Mayor of Nogales for three 2-year terms,

-4 5 8 - builder of the city's waterworks, proponent of flood control for the community,

and a promoter of beautiful surroundings through landscaping and gardening.

In the Senate he was chairman of the committee on Agriculture and

Irrigation, and a member of the committees on Education and Public Institutions;

Mines and Mining Finance; Judiciary; Public Lands; Counties and County

Affairs; and Corporations. This made him, with eight committees, one of the

busiest of all legislators.

Harry 3. Karns was born at Jamestown, New York, on May 17, 1880,

oldest of four boys. He lived for a time in Pittsburgh before moving west where

he became involved in mining ventures. An unfortunate one in Sonora, Mexico

sent him to Nogales where he saw opportunity, so invited his brothers from

California and went into business as Karns Brothers, Incorporated in 1907.

As Santa Cruz County and west coast of Mexico agents for leading firms

in automobiles, trucks, farming implements, well pumping machinery and large

gasoline and oil storage tanks in connection with a garage housing the Ford

agency, they prospered.

In 1913 Harry obtained the contract to erect the Nogales minicipal

waterworks. He was elected mayor in 1927 and was responsible for legislative financing of the first bridge over the Santa Cruz River at Nogales.

When ill health overtook him at age 19, his promised bride Mollie helped his mother to nurse him, and he and Mollie were married in 1900.

He died in Phoenix on April 29, 1956, at the age of 76 years.

SIDNEY KART US

Sidney Kartus, reclamationist, served seven terms or 14 years in the

House of Representatives from Maricopa County. He was elected first to the

-459- Seventeenth Legislature and began service in January 1945 and continued with

two breaks until January of 1961.

He was on the committee on Agriculture and Irrigation for five terms; on the committee on Petitions and Memorials of which he was vice chairman once;

on Livestock and Public Lands three times; and on Fish and Game twice. For one

term each he was on Accounting and Business Methods; Constitutional

Amendments and Referendum; Aeronautics; County Affairs; Suffrage and

Elections, of which he was vice chairman; and Welfare.

In the Eighteenth Legislature, his second term, he was charged with

misconduct, along with Representative Frank Robles of Pima County, and they

were expelled from the House. However, both were elected again to serve in the

Nineteenth.

Mr. Kartus, after the Twenty-second Legislature, was an observer for the

Arizona Legislature at the hearings on the Arizona suit against California over

rights to Colorado River water, before Judge Simon Rifkind in San Francisco.

He returned to serve in the Twenty-fourth Legislature when he was a member of

the committees on Public Health; Public Institutions and Welfare.

Mr. Kartus was bom on September 8, 1903, at Bessemer, Alabama, son of

N. S. Kartus and Lena Light Kartus. He finished elementary and high school

grades at Bessemer and then obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree at the

University of Alabama.

He moved to Arizona in 1925, and in 1930 married Evangeline Ashbaugh.

She died in 1940, and he thereafter married again but was divorced.

Mr. Kartus was best known for his championing of Arizona's rights in the

Colorado River, working with Fred T. Colter in maintaining filings on the water

-460- rights according to traditional water law of the West. When Mr. Colter died,

Mr. Kartus continued to keep the filings current, and succeeded to the position of president of the Arizona Highline Canal Association, which promoted the

Glen-Bridge Verde Highline projects to bring Colorado River to Central Arizona.

He called his association "a patriotic, nonprofit, nonpartisan, non political organization."

For a time before his legislative experience, he was assistant Arizona

State Historian. Mr. Kartus died in Phoenix on April 20, 1970, at the age of 66 years.

PAUL C. KEEFE

Paul C. Keefe, metallurgical engineer and chemist from Clarkdale, had the distinction of being elected Speaker of the House in his first term in the

Arizona Legislature. This occurred in the Fifth Legislature in 1921. As

presiding officer, he held no working committee assignments except being

chairman of the House Rules committee.

Twelve years later he was appointed to the State Senate to fill a vacancy

created by the resignation of 3ohn Francis Connor during the Third Special

Session of the Eleventh Legislature in 1934. Thereafter he was elected to the

next six terms in the Senate, during the last five of which he was Senate

President. In the Twelfth Legislature, he served on the committees on Mines and

Mining of which he was chairman; Finance and Revenue; Agriculture and

Forestry; and Employees and Supplies.

Paul C. Keefe was born on August 26, 1887, at Derby, Connecticut. He

graduated from the Yale School of Mining. In 1907 he moved to Arizona and for a time was at the mining town of

Poland before going in 1913 to the smelter town of Clarkdale where he became chemist for the smelter operation. He thereafter was an employee of the Phelps

Dodge Corporation for 37 years until his retirement in 1949, being safety engineer for the mine at Jerome and the smelter at Clarkdale, eventually serving as director of public relations for the Clarkdale Division of Phelps Dodge.

He was past president of the Clarkdale Kiwanis Club, and past deputy

Grand Exalted Ruler of the B.P.O. Elks.

When he died in Clarkdale on January 25, 1951, he was survived by his wife, Emory Gruener Keefe, whom he had married at Prescott on November 3,

1909.

FRANK J . KELLEY

Frank J. Kelley, Scottsdale public relations man, was elected to the House of Representatives from Maricopa County in the Twenty-seventh Arizona.

Legislature. (He thereafter was elected to 10 more terms by 1987 during which he was Speaker of the House for four terms.)

In the Twenty-seventh Legislature he was a member of the committees on

Administration; Civil Defense and Veterans' Affairs; County Affairs; Livestock and Public Lands; and Suffrage and Elections.

Mr. Kelley was bom on September 17, 1923, at Mercer, Missouri, son of

Olin F. Kelley and Marie Davis Kelley. He graduated from Indianola (Iowa) High

School and Chanute, Kansas, Junior College. He took his Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Kansas.

He was married to Betty Sandy Anderson of Chanute, Kansas, in 1947, and by 1972 they were parents of six children.

-462- He engaged in newspaper work for 10 years, then in public relations.

While in the Legislature he was Director of Agency Relations for the Samaritan

Health Services.

Mr. Kelley was a member of the American Legion, having been a United

States Air Force pilot during World War II.

He suffered a heart attack and died at his home in Scottsdale on

November 16, 1988, at the age of 65 years.

MARY ELIZABETH KELLEY

Mary Elizabeth Kelley, wife of Roy F. Kelley of Gila County, was appointed to complete the term of her husband in the Eleventh Legislature when he died suddenly on March 30, 1933, after the close of the Regular Session.

Mrs. Kelley took her seat in the First Special Session of the Eleventh

Legislature on June 5, 1933, and served during the Second and Third Special

Sessions. These were held in late June 1933 and in November and December

1939.

Mrs. Kelley was born in 1880 in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and had a common school education. She married Roy F. Kelley in Cedar Falls in 1905.

They moved to Arizona in 1913, and he opened a photography store in

Miami, Arizona, in partnership with Mrs. Kelley's brother, Andrew Mullarky. Her parents ware O. E. Mullarky and Caroline L. Mullarky.

Mary Elizabeth Mullarky Kelley died in Miami.

ROYF. KELLEY

Roy F. Kelley, a Miami photographer and former Town Council member, was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives from Gila County in the

Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Legislatures.

-463- During his three terms he served one term as chairman of the Ways and

Means committee, and for two terms each he was a member of the

Appropriations and the Highways and Bridges Committees. For one term each he served on Corporations; Enrolling and Engrossing; Fish and Game; Printing and

Clerks; and Education.

Roy F. Kelley was born on March 17, St. Patrick's Day, in 1SS2, son of

3ames M. Kelley and Estella Kelley, at Newton, Illinois.

He married Mary Mullarky in Cedar Falls, Iowa, in 1905, and they moved to Arizona in 1913. He opened a photography shop in partnership with his brother-in-law, Andrew Mullarky, in Miami, Arizona. He became a successful and popular businessman, serving six years on the Miami City Council, and was a member of the Miami School Board at the time of his death.

Mr. Kelley, warned of a weak heart by his physicians, was thought to have overtaxed his strength during the Regular Session of the Eleventh Legislature.

After three days of illness, he died of heart failure on March 30, 1933.

At his funeral in Miami, 22 members of the Legislature were in attendance. His wife, Mary Elizabeth Kelley, was appointed by the Gila County Board of Supervisors, to serve out the remainder of his term.

W. B. KELLY

William Beatty Kelly, Safford newspaper publisher, was elected to the

Arizona Senate in the Tenth, Eleventh and Thirteenth Legislatures from Graham

County. During his three terms he served on most of the important committees.

He was, for all three terms, on the committees on Employees and

Supplies; Education; Appropriations; and Style, Revision and Compilation, being

-4 64- chairman of each except Appropriations at least once. For two terms he was a member of each of Suffrage and Elections; Enrolling and Engrossing Agriculture and Forestry; Municipalities; and Rules. For one term each he was on Finance and Revenue; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; Highways and

Bridges; and Suffrage and Elections.

After he retired from the Senate in 1948, he became administrative assistant to Governor Robert T. Jones, and served in that capacity during the

1949-1950 term.

Mr. Kelly was born on December 7, 1875, at Poplar Bluff, Missouri, son of

George Henderson Kelly and Alice Valine Kelly. He finished high school, attended a military academy and graduated from the State Normal School of

Missouri. With his father, and independently, he operated newspapers in Graham,

Cochise, Pima, and Greenlee Counties, and worked at newspapering also in

Phoenix and Prescott. At the time he was in the Legislature he owned and operated the Graham County Guardian at Safford and the Copper Era at Clifton.

He married Ruth Guernsey at Solomonville on February 22, 1898, and they became parents of four children. Later he was married to Ruth Sterne at

Deming, New Mexico on March 22, 1923.

He was proud of having, with his father, organized the Consolidated

Publishing Company in 1906 which owned the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, and newspapers in Bisbee and Douglas.

Mr. Kelly died in the Elks State Hospital in Tucson on February 14, 1948,

at the age of 72 years.

-465- C. B. KELT ON

Captain C. B. Kelton, well known customs inspector and peace officer,

was elected to the House of Representatives from Cochise County in the first

Arizona State Legislature. When elected, in 1911, he was living rt Courtland, east of Tombstone.

In the House he was a member of the committees on Constitutional

Amendments and Referendum; State Accounting and Methods of Business;

Judiciary; and was chairman of the committee on Ways and Means.

Carlton B. Kelton was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 8, 1839, son of

Frederick Pettit Kelton, who trained him to be a carpenter and builder. He worked at the builder's trade until the Civil War when he volunteered for the

Confederate Army and fought at Harper's Ferry with General Joseph E. Johnson in July 1861. Later he served General Robert E. Lee personally and was with him at the second battle of Manassas. He also served with Gilmore's battalion of cavalry where he is reported to have been a Captain. He was wounded at

Hagerstown, Maryland, on the retreat from Gettysburg, and was taken prisoner, served in the Ft. Delaware prison until being transferred to Point Lookout from which he escaped in December 1864.

Between early May and late July 1879, he traveled from Washington,

D.C., with a party of 11 others, to Tombstone, Arizona. There he served in such positions as deputy United States Marshal from 1884 to 1889; customs inspector;

Sheriff of Cochise County in 1891 and 1892; and deputy collector of customs from 1893 to 1895.

-466- Captain Kelton did not marry. After his term in the Legislature he settled on the San Pedro River to try dry farming, and a railroad station was named for him.

He ran a hotel in Tucson for a time and was one of the early members of the Elks Lodge there.

In his later years he lived for a time at the Elks Home in Bedford,

Virginia, before going to Baltimore to live with friends.

He died on a Southern Railways train at Greenville, Alabama, while enroute to Tucson to attend an Old Timers' Reunion. Death came December 10,

1925. EDWARD I. KENNEDY

Edward I. Kennedy, a Tucson attorney and a Democrat, was elected to the

State Senate in the Twenty-seventh Legislature from Pima County, and served during 1965 and 1966.

He was a member of the standing committees on Judiciary; Mines and

Mining Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; Public Health and Welfare; and Tourist and Industry Development.

Mr. Kennedy was born at Jersey City, New Jersey, on July 31, 1923, son of Bernard and Catherine Kelly Kennedy. He moved to Arizona in time to earn a

Bachelor of Arts degree and Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arizona, receiving the latter in 1960, the same year he passed the Arizona Bar.

He married Mary Elizabeth Brumbach at Tucson in August 1951 and they became parents of thee chidren.

While studying for his undergraduate degree he served for a time as a deputy sheriff of Pima County. After graduation in 1960 he worked with

-467- Attorney Charles Rawlins for two years before becoming assistant to Arizona

Attorney General Robert Pickrell from 1962 through 1964.

After private practice in Tucson for the next few years, he accepted appointment as city magistrate and the chief city magistrate of the City of

Tucson, serving from 1975 to 1979.

He became ill, and while working his way back into activity, took a

Masters Degree at the University of Arizona in guidance and counselling. For a time he taught law and political science courses at Central Arizona Community

College at Florence and Pima Community College at Tucson.

Retiring from most professional activities in the mid 1980s, he remained busy in 1988 in local and state Democratic politics, giving support to candidates in the political campaigns that year.

JAMES L. (JIMMY) KENNEDY

James L. Kennedy was elected by the voters of his district in Pima

County to the Arizona House of Representatives in the Twenty-second and

Twenty-fourth Legislatures. During those two terms, he was a member twice of the committees on Planning and Development of which he was vice chairman once; and Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs. He also served one term each on

County and Municipal Affairs; Livestock and Public Lands; and Agriculture and

Irrigation.

Mr. Kennedy was born on July 10, 1925, in Tucson, son of James H.

Kennedy and Isabel Garcia Kennedy. He acquired the equivalent of a high school education.

On October 29, 1948, he was married to Emma S. Smith at Tucson, and by

January 1959 they were parents of two children.

-468- Mr. Kennedy served four years in the U.S. Navy, and learned the butcher's

trade. He worked for a time in Mexico in a program to control the "hoof and

mouth" disease among cattle.

At the time of his election to the Legislature he was a fire crew chief at

Darr Aero Tech at Marana.

Additional information about Mr. Kennedy was not found.

NEALES (NICK) KENNEDY

Neales (Nick) Kennedy, barber shop owner in Phoenix and a Democrat,

was elected to the House of Representatives in the Twenty-second Legislature

and served during 1955 and 1956. While there he was a member of the

committees on Health; Labor; Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs; and Public

Institutions.

He was born in Dyer, Tennessee, on June 11, 1927, son of W. R. Kennedy and Maggie Hensley Kennedy. He finished high school and had one year in a college of business.

He married Frances Jean at Heranda, Mississippi, on June 1, 1948. They had one child by January 1955.

He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and attended Arizona

State University.

While in the Legislature, he was owner and operator of the Kennedy

Barber and Beauty Salon.

Later, for 10 years, he was owner of the A -l Vending Machine company.

He was active for several years as a lobbyist for the mobile home industry.

-469- While in the Legislature he was deeply involved in the recodification of

the Arizona statutes, and was interested in the special investigating committee

dealing with problems at the Arizona State Hospital.

In an attempt to gain a seat in the Arizona State Senate, he was defeated.

In 1988 he was living in Phoenix and still interested in State politics.

R. R. KENNEDY

R. R. Kennedy of Tucson was elected to the Eighth Legislature and served

in the House of Representatives from Pima County in 1927 and 1928. While

there he was a member of the committees on Labor; Petitions and Memorials;

and Printing and Clerks.

Mr. Kennedy did not leave a record of his occupation with the Legislature,

but when he died at his Tucson home on June 25, 1946, his obituary revealed that

he had been Past Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Arizona and of

the Tucson Lodge No. 9.

He was 51 years old, having been born December 5, 1894. He was said to

have been in Tucson for 41 years.

He was survived by his wife, Ermine K. Kennedy; four sons, Ernest,

Phillip, James and Robert; a daughter, Edna; a grandson; and four brothers.

J. KNOX KENT

J. Knox Kent, utilities company executive and a Democrat, was elected

by the voters of Gila County to represent them in the lower house of the Seventh

and Eighth Arizona Legislatures, from January 1925 to January 1929.

In the Seventh Legislature he was a member of the committees on Labor;

Fish and Game; and Counties and Municipalities. In the Eighth Legislature he

Weis chairman of the committee on Fish and Game and a member of the

-470- committees on Highways and Bridges; and Constitutional Amendments and

Referendum.

Mr. Kent was born in Nova Scotia in 1876 and moved to Arizona to assist in construction and operation of the Bisbee-Warren Street Railway in that mining district. In 1910 he went to Miami from Warren, and became superintendent of the I. A. Van Dyke Utilities Company. Later he was manager of the Arizona Edison Company in Safford for six years.

While in Miami and Safford he was active in community and fraternal affairs, being affiliated with the Rotary Club in each city, and a popular member of the B. P. O. Elks.

Mr. Kent died on September 19, 1932, after an illness of several weeks.

When his funeral was held in Miami, the members of the Rotary Clubs in Miami,

Globe and Safford attended in a body.

He was survived by his widow, Belle.

R. W. KENWORTHY

Raymond W. Kenworthy served the people of Pinal County in the Arizona

House of Representatives in the Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Legislatures, from November 26, 193*f, when he was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of George Sellers, who had resigned, to January 1939, the end of his second elective term. He was a Coolidge area farmer.

During his elective terms he was a member of the committees on Ways and Means; Agriculture and Irrigation; and Livestock for all four years. For one term (two years) he was a member of each of the committees on Suffrage and

Elections, of which he was chairman; and Banking and Insurance. Mr. Kenworthy was born in Frankfort, Kansas, on February 12, 1891, son of Albert and Agnes Kenworthy. He obtained a high school education there.

He was married on January 21, 1917, at Wagner, Oklahoma, and became the father of a son and daughter.

He moved to Arizona in 1919 to the farming area under the San Carlos

Irrigation project at Coolidge, and served for a time on the board of directors of the San Carlos Irrigation and Drainage District.

Raymond Walter Kenworthy spent most of his Arizona years on his

Coolidge area farm, and it was there that he died on December 18, 1957, at the age of 66 years. JAMES R. KERR

James R. Kerr was elected to the House of Representatives of the First

Arizona State Legislature from Yuma County, and served in the Regular and the

three special sessions from March 1912 to January 1915.

He was on the committees on Appropriations; Labor; Good Roads; and

State Accounting and Methods of Business. He was a loyal party worker and was

named a member and chairman of the Arizona Panama-Pacific Exposition

Commission.

James Roberts Kerr was born on June 9, 1850, at Ashville, North

Carolina. He was the son of William M. and Harriet Kerr and was of

Scotch-English ancestry. He obtained his schooling in private schools in North

Carolina and Virginia. Most of his life was spent in open-air pursuits. He was a

railroader, cowboy, prospector and miner.

From the age of 20 he was on the frontier, and spent three years in

Alaska. He worked for railroads in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, leaving rail service in 1893 to establish a real estate and insurance business in San Diego. He

was a deputy sheriff for five or six years in San Diego County.

He moved into Arizona, settling in Yuma in 1908, and became active

almost immediately in politics.

He died in Yuma on March 3, 1921, and was remembered by House

Resolution No. 5 of the Fifth Legislature which referred to "his quiet,

unass Lining manner, gentleness and deep consideration at all times for the

feelings of his fellowmen, and his ever watchfulness and care for the best

interests of his State and home county."

EDWARD P. KIERNAN

Edward P. Kiernan, Winslow accountant, was elected to the House of

Representatives in the Fifteenth Arizona Legislature from Navajo County, serving during 1941 and until he entered the Army in 1942 to serve in World

War n.

During his service in the Regular Session he was a member of the committees on Capitol Buildings and Grounds of which he was chairman;

Suffrage and Elections; Fish and Game; and Labor.

Eddie Kiernan was bom in Winslow on September 30, 1914, son of Thomas

Edward Kiernan and Grace Powell Kiernan. He completed Winslow High School and took two years of business training to prepare for an accountancy career.

In World War II he spent 19 months in the European Theatre of Operations.

Upon his return to Winslow he became interested in dty government and was elected mayor.

He died unexpectedly of a heart attack on August 5, 1950, at the age of

35 years. He was not married.

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Andrew Thomas Kilcrease, school superintendent and a Democrat, was

elected by the voters of Pinal County to the House of Representatives in the

Sixth Legislature and to the State Senate in the Seventh Legislature. This

service covered the time from January 1923 to January 1927.

In the House he was on the committees on Agriculture and Irrigation;

Education, of which he was chairman; and Petitions and Memorials.

In the Senate he was a member of the committees on Rules; Judiciary;

Methods of Business; Labor and Capital; Suffrage and Elections; and Enrolling

and Engrossing.

He was born in Bulloch, Crenshaw County, Alabama, on August 21, 1879,

son of W. F. Kilcrease and N. A. H. Jones Kilcrease. He received his elementary

schooling in Bulloch, but at age 14 moved with his parents to Bowie, Texas,

where he graduated from high school. He also attended Sam Houston Normal

College and the University of Texas.

He was married to Minnie A. Longley at Archer City, Texas, May 26,

1901, and they became parents of four children, three sons and a daughter. He and his family moved to Arizona, arriving in Casa Grande on September 9, 1916.

Here he helped to organize Casa Grande Union High School in 1917, and became its first principal. He later was superintendent of Casa Grande Public Schools, having been in a like position in Bowie, Texas, and in Dallas.

Mr. Kilcrease was postmaster at Casa Grande from 1934 to 1938.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s he was a member of the Good Roads committee which obtained improvement of the road south from Casa

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grammar and high school boards.

He died in Casa Grande on May 2, 1946, survived by his widow, all four of

his children and several grandchildren. He was a member of the Woodmen of the

World, the Masonic Lodge and the Baptist Church.

R. F. KILPATRICK

R. F. Kilpatrick was chosen by the voters of his district in Maricopa

County to serve them in the House of Representatives in three consecutive

legislative terms, the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Legislatures, from

January 1941 to January 1947.

For all three terms he was a member of the committee on County Affairs;

being chairman in the Sixteenth, and for two terms he was on the committees on

Printing and Clerks; Constitutional Amendments and Referendum; and Rules.

For one term each he was on the committees on Capitol Building and Grounds;

Fish and Game; Public Lands; and Enrolling and Engrossing.

Mr. Kilpatrick was a farmer, storekeeper and a restaurant owner.

He was born on May 26, 1906, at Kelso, Washington, son of Herbert J . and

Margaret Gagan Kilpatrick. He obtained his elementary schooling in Phoenix,

high schooling in Tucson, and studied two years at the University of Arizona at

T ucson.

Mr. Kilpatrick was married on March 30, 1929, to Helen Hanley at

Florence, Arizona, and they became parents of five children.

After nearly 70 years as a resident of Arizona, he died on January 3, 1978.

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