Mesa is a city in Maricopa County,Arizona,United States. It is the third-most populous city in Arizona,after Phoenix and Tucson,the 36th-most populous city in the U.S.,and the most populous city that is not a county seat. The city is home to 504,258 people as of 2020. It is the most populous city in the East Valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area. It is bordered by Tempe on the west,the Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community on the north,Chandler and Gilbert on the south along with Queen Creek,and Apache Junction on the east.
Carl Trumbull Hayden was an American politician. Representing Arizona in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1969,he was the first U.S. Senator to serve seven terms. Serving as the state's first Representative for eight terms before entering the Senate,Hayden set the record as the longest-serving member of the United States Congress more than a decade before his retirement from politics. He was Dean of the United States Senate and served as its president pro tempore and chairman of both its Rules and Administration and Appropriations committees. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Hayden was also the last remaining member of Congress to have served during the presidencies of William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson,as he retired in 1969.
Robert Taylor Jones was an American businessman and politician who served as the sixth governor of the U.S. state of Arizona and served from 1939 to 1941.
The Apache Trail in Arizona was a stagecoach trail that ran through the Superstition Mountains. It was named the Apache Trail after the Apache Indians who originally used this trail to move through the Superstition Mountains.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Maricopa County,Arizona,excluding those in Phoenix,for which see this separate list.
U.S. Route 70 (US 70),also known as the Old West Highway,is an east–west U.S. Highway in the U.S. state of Arizona. The current route starts at US 60 in Globe and runs through the San Carlos Indian Reservation,Safford and Duncan into New Mexico near Virden. In Arizona,US 70 passes through mostly isolated hilly and mountainous terrain largely paralleling the course of the Gila River and the Arizona Eastern Railway.
The Gillespie Dam is a concrete gravity dam located on the Gila River between the towns of Buckeye and Gila Bend,Arizona. The dam was constructed during the 1920s for primarily irrigation purposes. It was key to the development of a 72,000-acre (29,000 ha) parcel owned by "millionaire" W.S. Gillespie of Tulsa,Oklahoma,initially allowing for irrigation of 10,000 acres (4,000 ha). A portion of the dam failed unexpectedly in 1993 during unusually heavy rains.
U.S. Route 80 (US 80),also known as the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway,the Broadway of America and the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway,was a major transcontinental highway that existed in the U.S. state of Arizona from November 11,1926,to October 6,1989. At its peak,US 80 traveled from the California border in Yuma to the New Mexico state line near Lordsburg. US 80 was an important highway in the development of Arizona's car culture. Like its northern counterpart,US 66,the popularity of travel along US 80 helped lead to the establishment of many unique roadside businesses and attractions,including many iconic motor hotels and restaurants. US 80 was a particularly long highway,reaching a length of almost 500 miles (800 km) within the state of Arizona alone for most of the route's existence.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Phoenix,Arizona,United States.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mesa,Arizona,United States.
The City of Mesa Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at 1212 N. Center Street in the city of Mesa,Arizona. It is the final resting place of various notable early citizens of Mesa. Among those who are interred in the cemetery are early pioneers,mayors,businessman,criminals and veterans of the United States Armed Forces.
Helen Peterson was a Cheyenne-Lakota activist and lobbyist. She was the first director of the Denver Commission on Human Relations. She was the second Native American woman to become director of the National Congress of American Indians at a time when the government wanted to discharge their treaty obligations to the tribes by eliminating their tribal governments through the Indian termination policy and forcing the tribe members to assimilate into the mainstream culture. She authored a resolution on Native American education,which was ratified at the second Inter-American Indian Conference,held in Cuzco,Peru. In 1986,Peterson was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame and the following year,her papers were donated to the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives and they are now held at the National Museum of the American Indian.
George Nicholas Goodman,was a pharmacist in Mesa,Arizona. He was the mayor of Mesa for 5 different 2 year terms as part of 3 different decades. Goodman served as the executive secretary of the Arizona State Fair Commission at the time of his death,and was the former president of both the Arizona Pharmaceutical Association and the Arizona Municipal League.
John Lorenzo Hubbell was a member of the Arizona State Senate. He was elected to serve in the 1st Arizona State Legislature from Apache County. He served in the Senate from March 1912 until March 1914. Hubbell was the long-time owner of the Hubbell Trading Post established in 1878 on the Navajo Reservation in Ganado,Arizona. The trading post is preserved as the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site.
Henry Bannister Wilkinson was an American lawyer and politician who served three consecutive terms in the Arizona State Senate from 1918 to 1922,serving as the President of the Senate in his third term,during the 5th Arizona State Legislature. He unsuccessfully ran for several other offices,including in 1933,when Wilkinson lost in the first special election held in Arizona,for Arizona's sole congressional seat. He lost in a landslide to Democrat Isabella Greenway,who garnered 73% of the vote to become the first woman from Arizona to go to Congress. He was instrumental in bringing main line railroad service to Phoenix,Arizona;was one of the founders of what is known today as Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix;was a member of the Arizona State Bar for over fifty years,serving as its president one year;and was very active in the movement to improve the roads in Arizona.
Charles C. Green was an American rancher and politician from Arizona. He served a single term in the Arizona House of Representatives during the 3rd Arizona State Legislature,followed by a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 4th Arizona State Legislature.
Dan P. Jones was an American politician from Arizona. He served a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 8th Arizona State Legislature,holding one of the two seats from Maricopa County. Prior to that he had served three terms in the Arizona House of Representatives,during the 1st,5th,and 6th Arizona State Legislatures. During the 6th Legislature,he was elected Speaker of the House. He was also very involved in the education system in Mesa,serving as its board president,as well as in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Frank T. Pomeroy was an American politician from Arizona. He served three terms in the Arizona State Senate during the 10th,11th,and 13th Arizona State Legislatures,holding one of the two seats from Maricopa County. Prior to that,he had served a single term in the Arizona House of Representatives,during the 7th Arizona State Legislature. He was one of the original settlers of Mesa,Arizona.
