Charles E. Burton | |
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Member of the Arizona Senate from the Yavapai County district | |
In office January 1921 –December 1922 | |
Preceded by | A. A. Johns C. P. Hicks |
Succeeded by | Charles H. Rutherford Howard Cornick |
Personal details | |
Nationality | American |
Political party | Republican |
Profession | Politician |
Charles E. Burton was an American politician from Arizona. He served a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 5th Arizona State Legislature,holding one of the two seats from Yavapai County. [1]
Burton was born in Texas in 1883,and moved to Arizona Territory in 1903,settling in Ash Fork,where he opened the Northern Arizona Commercial Company. [2] [3] He was a major sheep rancher in northern Arizona,centered in Ash Fork,with significant holdings. [4] [5] Burton married Ada Brown of Prescott on May 3,1909,in Phoenix. Ada was an accomplished musician,and had studied music in both Phoenix and Los Angeles. [6] [7] In 1912,Burton sold many of his range interests north of Ash Fork,and extended his ranching activities to include cattle. [3] [8] [9]
In 1914,he ran for the Republican nomination for one of the seats from Yavapai County to the Arizona House of Representatives. [10] He was unopposed in the Republican primary,but all four Republican candidates lost to their Democrat opponents in the general election. [11] [12] By 1915 he was one of the largest sheep ranchers in Arizona. [13] In February 1917 Ada Burton died in Phoenix after a short illness. [6] [14] Later that same year,Burton was ill for several weeks with typhoid fever. [15]
In 1918,after his election,Governor Campbell appointed Burton as one of the three members of the state's Sheep Sanitary Board. [16] In 1920,Burton ran for the Republican nomination for the state senate from Yavapai County. [17] The two Democrat incumbents,A. A. Johns and C. P. Hicks were both soundly beaten by Burton and his Republican running partner,David Morgan. [18]
In addition to his sheep ranching activities,Burton was also co-owner of the Northern Arizona Commercial Company,a mercantile enterprise. [19] He also owned the Arizona Motor Company,a motor sales company handling several lines of trucks and cars in Arizona and Sonora,Mexico. [20] By 1921 his other business interests included being a director in the Phoenix National Life Insurance Company,part owner in the Imperial Live Stock and Mortgage Company,and the Sigler Oil Company,which operated oil fields in Texas. In addition he was a major stockholder of the Arizona Packing Company,and was one of the wealthiest men in Arizona. [3] [21]
In May 1921 Burton married for a second time,to Mabel Frankforter of Phoenix,and member of a well-known Arizona pioneering family. The wedding took place in Los Angeles. [21] In 1922 the Burtons purchased a home on north Central Avenue in Phoenix. [22] They split their time between Phoenix and Williams. [23] Burton did not run for re-election in 1922. [24] At some point between 1927 and 1928,Burton and Mabel divorced,and Burton remarried for a third time,to Susan,a native of Helsinki,Finland. They remained married until her death in November 1948. The couple had two children,Robert and Linda. [25] Burton died on March 15,1959,in Phoenix. [26]
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