Cochise County is a county in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. It is named after Cochise,a Chiricahua Apache who was a key war leader during the Apache Wars.
Benson is a city in Cochise County,Arizona,United States. As of the 2010 census,the population of the city was 5,105. It was founded as a rail terminal for the area,and located approximately 45 miles (72 km) east-southeast of the city of Tucson.
Bisbee is a city in and the county seat of Cochise County in southeastern Arizona,United States. It is 92 miles (148 km) southeast of Tucson and 11 miles (18 km) north of the Mexican border. According to the 2020 census,the population of the town was 4,923,down from 5,575 in the 2010 census.
Warren Ballpark is a baseball stadium located in Bisbee,Arizona. The ballpark was recently home to the Tucson Saguaros of the Pecos League and the Bisbee-Douglas Copper Kings of the independent Arizona–Mexico League The Stadium was built in 1909 by the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company as a recreation for the miners and their families,pre-dating the construction of Chicago's Wrigley Field by nearly five years. It is currently the home of Bisbee Killer Termites and Bisbee High School Pumas baseball and football teams.
The San Pedro Valley Railroad,formerly the San Pedro &Southwestern Railroad,is an Arizona shortline railroad,currently operating from a connection with the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) at Benson,Arizona,seven miles to Curtiss,Arizona west of St. David. The SPSR formerly ran a total of 76.2 miles (122.6 km),with main track from Benson to Paul Spur,a location about 10 miles (16 km) west of Douglas,as well as the Bisbee Branch which ran 5.6 miles (9.0 km) to Bisbee,Arizona. The SPSR is owned by Ironhorse Resources.
The Bisbee Deportation was the illegal kidnapping and deportation of about 1,300 striking mine workers,their supporters,and citizen bystanders by 2,000 members of a deputized posse,who arrested them beginning on July 12,1917,in Bisbee,Arizona. The action was orchestrated by Phelps Dodge,the major mining company in the area,which provided lists of workers and others who were to be arrested to the Cochise County sheriff,Harry C. Wheeler. Those arrested were taken to a local baseball park before being loaded onto cattle cars and deported 200 miles (320 km) to Tres Hermanas in New Mexico. The 16-hour journey was through desert without food and with little water. Once unloaded,the deportees,most without money or transportation,were warned against returning to Bisbee. The US government soon brought in members of the US Army to assist with relocating the deportees to Columbus,New Mexico.
Fort Naco,Camp Naco,or Fort Newell began as a camp in the Southwest United States,on the outskirts of Naco,Arizona as part of the Mexican Border Project. Over time adobe and wooden buildings were constructed to house the garrison along with other permanent structures.
Harry Cornwall Wheeler was an Arizona lawman who was the third captain of the Arizona Rangers,as well as the sheriff of Cochise County,serving from 1912 into 1918. He is known as the lead figure in the illegal mass kidnapping and deportation of some 1200 miners and family members,many of them immigrants,from Bisbee,Arizona to New Mexico in 1917. Beginning on July 12,1917,he took total control of the town of Bisbee,controlling access and running kangaroo courts that deported numerous people.
Paul Newman is a former member of the Arizona Corporation Commission.
The Apache Elementary School District is a school district with a single one-room school,Apache Elementary School (AES),in rural Cochise County,Arizona.
Fred Arthur Sutter Sr. was an Arizona attorney and politician. He ran several times,unsuccessfully,for governor of the state,and was elected several times to the state legislature.
Arizona's 19th legislative district is one of 30 in the state,consisting of all of Greenlee County and sections of Cochise County,Graham County,Pima County,and Santa Cruz County. As of 2023,there are 96 precincts in the district,with a total registered voter population of 146,048. The district has an overall population of 230,476.
Peggy Judd was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives,representing Arizona's 25th District from January 2011 until January 2013.
The 55th Arizona State Legislature,consisting of the Arizona Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives,is the current legislative session constituted in Phoenix on January 11,2021,during the second two years of Doug Ducey's second full term in office. Both the Senate and the House membership remained constant at 30 and 60,respectively. In the November 2020 Senate election,Democrats gained one seat,leaving the Republicans with a 16–14 majority. Republicans maintained an unchanged 31–29 majority in the House after the November 2020 House election.
W.P. Sims was a politician and dentist from Arizona. He served in Arizona State Senate in the 1st,2nd,and 5th - 7th State Legislatures. He served as the President of the Senate during the 2nd Legislature.
Charles M. Roberts was an American politician who served in the first Arizona State Senate.
William Monroe Riggs was a politician from Arizona who served in the Arizona state senate during the 2nd Arizona State Legislature. He was a cattleman in southern Arizona,and served on the Cochise County board of supervisors for several terms,being chairman for four years,and was elected to the Arizona state senate.
Thomas A. Hughes was an American politician and businessman from Arizona. He served a single term in the Arizona State House of Representatives during the 3rd Arizona State Legislature,and a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 4th Arizona State Legislature. He owned an insurance agency in Bisbee,Arizona,and later served as an officer of the Hartford Indemnity and Insurance Company.
David C. O'Neil was an American politician from Arizona. He served a single term in the Arizona State House of Representatives during the 3rd Arizona State Legislature,and a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 4th Arizona State Legislature. He served 13 years on the Arizona State Tax Commission,6 of them as chairman. He was appointed in 1934 to serve the last year of an unexpired term,then was re-elected twice,in 1934 and 1940. Early in his career he worked in the hospitality and transportation industries.
John P. Cull was an American politician from Arizona. He served several terms in the Arizona State Legislature,beginning in Arizona House of Representatives during the 4th Arizona State Legislature,and then in the Arizona State Senate first in the 5th Arizona State Legislature,and again in the 10th Arizona State Legislature. In both of his re-election attempts to the State Senate he was defeated in the Democrat's primary. During his career he was involved in the banking and mercantile industries,and later on was one of the largest cattle ranchers in Cochise County. During the 1930s he also served on the Arizona State Livestock Sanitary Board.
