Earl Carl Slipher was an American astronomer and politician. He was the brother of astronomer Vesto Slipher. He served in both the Arizona House of Representatives and the Arizona State Senate.
Fred Sylvester Breen was an American politician.
Fred Tuttle Colter was an Arizona rancher and farmer,as well as being the state senator for Apache County beginning with Arizona's second state legislature in 1915. Colter spent six terms in the Arizona Senate. He also led the fight on Arizona's behalf to maintain control over the water from the Colorado River,coining the slogan,"Save the Colorado for Arizona". He was a close ally of the state's first governor,George W. P. Hunt. Prior to his election to the state senate,Colter had served as the state's fair commissioner.
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.
William Wilson Pace was an American politician and cattleman from Arizona. He was a member of three territorial legislatures prior to statehood,and was a member of the Arizona State Senate in the 1st Arizona State Legislature.
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.
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.
Hugh E. Campbell was a politician from Arizona who served in the Arizona state senate for four terms. He was the Arizona Democrat delegate to their national convention in 1896. He was one of the largest sheep ranchers in Arizona,and was prominent in both the National Wool Growers Association and the National Livestock Association. For six years he served on the board of the Arizona State Fair commission,five as its president.
Delmore Dean Crabb was an American politician from Arizona who served in the Arizona state senate during the 2nd Arizona State Legislature. In addition to his brief political career,Crabb was a cattle rancher in both Arizona and California.
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.
William P. Mahoney was an American lawyer and politician who served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 1915 to 1916 and in the Arizona Senate from 1917 to 1918,as a member of the Democratic Party. After his tenure in the state legislature he served as the sheriff of Mohave County,Arizona.
John W. Buchanan (1871–1941) was an American politician from Arizona who served in the states first three legislatures,the first two in the House of Representatives,and the third in the State Senate. During his political career he also served as Pima County Treasurer and as Tucson's City Treasurer.
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.
W. A. Parr was an American politician from Arizona. He served a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 4th Arizona State Legislature,holding the seat from Navajo County. In addition,he served two terms in the Arizona Territorial Legislature,both in the lower house. He was a contractor and an undertaker.
Albert Rex Buehman was an American photographer 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,holding one of the two seats from Pima County. He was unsuccessful in bids for the U. S. House of Representatives in 1948 and for the Mayor of Tucson in 1955. The photography business his father began in 1873 in Tucson was the oldest photography studio in Arizona when it closed in 1956. His daily column in the Arizona Daily Star ran from 1950 through 1954.
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.
W. B. Kelly,was an American politician from Arizona. He served three terms in the Arizona State Senate during the 10th,11th,and 12th Arizona State Legislatures,holding the seat from Graham County. He was a pioneer newspaper man in Arizona,owning and editing several newspapers,including the Arizona Daily Star,Bisbee Daily Review,and the Graham Guardian.
J. Hubert Smith,also known as J. H. Smith or J. H. (Hubert) Smith was an American politician from Arizona. He served several terms in the Arizona State Senate during the 10th,12th,13th,15th,and 16th Arizona State Legislatures holding the seat from Mohave County. He also served as an assistant state attorney general during the 1940s.
