William Plato Stuart and Della Tovrea Stuart papers, 1903-1967.

United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

King, Isabella Greenway, 1886-1953

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Isabella Dinsmore Selmes Ferguson Greenway King (March 22, 1886 – December 18, 1953) is best known as the first U.S. congresswoman in Arizona history, and as the founder of the Arizona Inn of Tucson. During her life she was also noted as a one-time owner and operator of Los Angeles-based Gilpin Airlines, a speaker at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, and a bridesmaid at the wedding of Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Born Isabella Dinsmore Selmes at the historic Dinsmore Farm in Boon...

Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998

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Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician, businessman, and author who was a five-term Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States in 1964. Despite his loss of the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, Goldwater is the politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the...

McFarland, Ernest William "Mac", 1894-1984

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Ernest McFarland "Father of the GI Bill" The son of Oklahoma pioneers, Ernest "Mac" McFarland nearly died from a bronchial infection he contracted while serving stateside during World War I. Military surgeons operated on his lungs, then sent him off to recuperate in a drier climate. "Jobless and homeless," he made his way to Phoenix, where he eventually found work as a bookkeeper in a bank. While other veterans struggled in the postwar economy, the future majority leader thrived in Arizona...

Arizona. Highway Dept.

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Stuart, Della Tovrea, 1888-1969

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Osborn, Sidney Preston, 1884-1948

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Sidney Preston Osborn was born May 17, 1884 in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from Phoenix Union High School in 1903 and attended Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., where he developed an interest in politics. From 1903 to 1905 he was a delegate to the U.S. Congress, and in 1910 was a member of the Arizona Constitutional Convention. Osborn also served as Arizona's Secretary of State from 1912 to 1919 and Arizona's Collector of Internal Revenue from 1933 to 1934. He made three unsuccessful b...

Moeur, Benjamin Baker, 1869-1937.

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Ashurst, Henry Fountain, 1874-1962

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U.S. Senator from Arizona. From the description of Henry Fountain Ashurst Manuscript Collection. 1913-1952. (Nogales-Santa Cruz County Public Library). WorldCat record id: 48204993 From the description of Papers, 1896-1963 (bulk 1920-1962). (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 30599358 U.S. Senator from Arizona, 1912 to 1941, Ashurst was raised near Flagstaff, served in the territorial legislature in 1897, practiced law in Williams and Flagstaff, Ariz. and w...

Windsor, Mulford, 1874-1956.

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Cameron, Ralph H. (Ralph Henry), 1863-

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Delegate to the U.S. Congress from Arizona, 1909-1912; U.S. Senator, 1921-1927; and businessman, operated Cameron's Hotel and Camps and developed Bright Angel Trail at the Grand Canyon. From the description of Ralph Henry Cameron papers, 1899-1915. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 31388166 From the guide to the Ralph Henry Cameron papers, 1899-1915, (University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections) Politician; Ralph Henry Cameron was a Flagstaff res...

Hunt, George W. P. (George Wylie Paul), 1859-1934

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Arizona politician. President of the Arizona Constitutional Convention, 1910; Governor of Arizona, 1912-1919, 1923-1929, and 1931-1933. From the description of Scrapbooks, 1910-1932. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28404463 Arizona governor and statesman. From the description of The George W.P. Hunt collection, 1709-1955, 1885-1932. (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 22105821 George W. P. Hunt was born in Huntsvill...

Tovrea Land and Cattle Company.

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Arizona Packing Company.

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Douglas, James S. (James Stuart), 1868-1949

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American banker and mine owner. From the description of James S. Douglas miscellaneous papers, 1922-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871948 Biographical Note 1868, June 19 Born, Megantic Township, Quebec, Canada 1891 1909 Assayer and M...

Tovrea Packing Company.

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Hayden, Carl Trumbull, 1877-1972

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Arizona representative and senator to the United States Congress from 1911-1970. From the description of Carl T. Hayden papers, 1851-1972 (bulk 1940-1968). (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 34298637 Biographical note: Legislator; Carl Hayden was born in Tempe, Arizona in 1877, and held various elective offices before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1912, then the U.S. Senate in 1927. He represented Arizona until his retirement in 1969. ...

Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

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The Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal agency, was created as part of the New Deal in 1935. From the description of Civilian Conservation Corps photograph collection [graphic]. 1936. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38548415 On March 31, 1933, congress passed the Emergency Conservation Work Act, creating the Civilian Conservation Corps. On April 5, the president appointed Robert Fechner of Tennessee as Director of Emergency Conservation Work. Fechner, a vic...

Stanford, R. C. (Rawghlie Clement), 1878-1963.

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Arizona Supreme Court justice and Democratic governor. From the description of Rawghlie Clement Stanford collection, 1882-1978. (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 28132605 ...

Giragi, Columbus, 1897-

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Stuart, William Plato, 1879-1960.

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Della Tovrea Stuart (1888-1969) served as Democratic National committeewoman for Arizona, and was also involved in the Tovrea Packing Company and the Central Arizona Broadcasting Company in Jerome, Arizona. Her first husband, Edward Ambrose Tovrea (1862-1932), was founder of the Tovrea Packing Company. Her second husband, William Plato Stuart (1879-1960), was publisher of the Prescott Evening Courier, Collector of Internal Revenue, Arizona District, and chairman of the Democratic State Central C...

Democratic Party (Ariz.)

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Tovrea, Edward Ambrose, 1862-1932

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Murdock, John Robert, 1885-1972

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Arizona educator and Representative to the U.S. Congress from Arizona, 1935-1953. From the description of John Robert Murdock collection, 1917-1963 (bulk 1942-1950). (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 30058138 John Robert Murdock was born in 1885. He graduated from the State Teachers College in Kirksville, Missouri in 1912, and from the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1925. He did graduate work at the University of Arizona at Tucson and the University of Cal...