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.
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.
H. A. Davis was an American politician from Arizona,who served as a senator in the 1st Arizona State Legislature. He was also a newspaperman and owned a printing business.
C. B. Wood was a politician from Arizona who served in the 1st Arizona State Legislature. He was also heavily involved in the Arizona State Fair,was a Maricopa County under-sheriff,had a real estate company,and was postmaster of Phoenix.
John T. Hughes was a politician from Arizona who served in the 1st Arizona State Legislature. He was also a newspaper man,editing and publishing his father's paper,the Arizona Daily Star,and an attorney,the first native-born Arizonan to be admitted to the Arizona bar. Additionally,he had several mining and real estate interests.
Colonel A. A. Worsley was a politician from Arizona who served in the 1st Arizona State Legislature. Worsley was also an attorney,who practiced in Tucson,Arizona. He was married to Alice J. Worsley.
James A. Harrison was a politician from Arizona who served in the 1st Arizona State Legislature. He returned to the state senate in 1932 and served four more terms,three consecutively from 1932 through 1938. He operated the large Harrison ranch from the early 1900s through 1950,when he sold it to his son and grandson. He served on the Santa Cruz county board of supervisors from its inception through 1920. He was also on the city council of Nogales,Arizona,and served several terms as its mayor. Early in his life he was a stage coach driver for Wells Fargo.
Mose Drachman was a pioneer business and civic leader,as well as politician,in Tucson,Arizona,during the early 1900s. He was involved in numerous interests,including mercantile,real estate,banking,mining,and cattle. He served as the Senior Clerk for the U.S. District Court in Arizona during the term of William H. Sawtelle,served two terms on the Tucson City Council,and five consecutive terms on the Tucson Board of Education,as well as being on both the Tucson and Phoenix chambers of commerce. He also served a single term in the Arizona state senate during the 2nd Arizona State Legislature. Two books were written about his life,Ridin' the Rainbow,and Chicken Every Sunday,the latter being made into a Broadway play,as well as a motion picture of the same name.
Harry John Karns was an Arizona politician who served a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 2nd Arizona State Legislature. He served 3 consecutive terms as mayor of Nogales from 1927 to 1933. While in office,he oversaw the paving of the streets of Nogales,installation of a sewer system,and street lights.
William D. Claypool was an Arizona politician who served several terms in the Arizona State Senate during the 1910s and 1920s.
Ernest R. Hall was an Arizona politician who served a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 3rd Arizona State Legislature. He ran several other times for the state legislature,mostly for the State Senate,but once for the State House of Representatives. He also ran three times for Arizona Secretary of State,winning in the 1920 election. Other offices he held were justice of the peace and postmaster,both in the Salome,Arizona area. He was a combat veteran of World War I,and was a very successful farmer in Maricopa County for several decades.
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.
Fred Ormal Goodell was an Arizona politician who served three consecutive terms in the Arizona State Senate from 1917 through 1922. Very active in the Masons,he served in all of their major posts in Arizona,including being the Grand Master of Masons in Arizona,the Grand Commander of Knights Templar in Arizona,the Grand Master of A. &S. M. of Arizona,and the High Priest of R. A. M. of Arizona. He served as the county comptroller for Pima County for 21 years,from 1935 to 1956.
Ray Ferguson was an American physician and politician from Arizona who served in the Arizona State Senate from 1917 through 1918,during the 3rd Arizona State Legislature. In addition to his short political career,Ferguson was heavily involved in the mining industry in Arizona and Mexico. Twice he served as the superintendent of the Territorial and State Insane Asylum in Phoenix.
Charles Hays Rutherford was an American lawyer and politician from Arizona who served in the Arizona State Senate from 1917 through 1918,during the 3rd Arizona State Legislature. He also served during the 6th Arizona State Legislature. He served in the Army Reserve,first in the JAG corps,then in the Specialist Reserve Corps,eventually attaining the rank of Colonel. From 1930 until his death in 1950 he served as a civilian aide to the Secretary of War. He practiced law,first in Indiana early in his career,and then in Arizona,until he was disbarred by the Arizona Supreme Court in 1949.
Anthony A. Johns was an American politician from Arizona. He served a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 4th Arizona State Legislature,holding one of the two seats from Yavapai County,as well as serving as President of the Senate. He also held one of the seats from Yavapai County in the Arizona House of Representatives three times,in the 2nd,3rd and 13th Arizona State Legislatures,serving as the Speaker of the House during the 3rd Legislature. He was a long-time resident of Prescott,and one of the largest sheepherders in Yavapai County. Other business interests included mining and construction. Other offices held included a regent for the University of Arizona,chairman of the Arizona Highway Commission,chief of the Prescott Fire Department,president of the Arizona Wool Growers Association,and vice-president of the National Wool Growers Association.
Celina Martin Stoddard 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 Maricopa County. He ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for governor in 1928. A World War I veteran,he helped establish the first American Legion post in Arizona in 1919,and became its first commander. He would later be selected the Legion's state commander,and also served a term as the national vice-commander of the organization. He was well known in the mining industry in Arizona.
Harlow Akers 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. In 1932 he ran for the Democrat nomination for the U. S. Senate,but lost to incumbent Carl Hayden.
William C. Joyner 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 Pima County. He also served as the state game warden,and was responsible for the construction of the Phoenix Zoo#Hunt Bass Hatchery House.
Clarence C. Crenshaw was an American politician from Arizona. He served a single term in the Arizona State Senate,in the 10th,holding the single seat from Santa Cruz County. Crenshaw was originally from Memphis,Tennessee,born in 1883.
