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Pat Hayhurst
Pat Hayhurst was an American politician from Arizona. He served a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 6th Arizona State Legislature The 6th Arizona State Legislature, consisting of the Arizona State Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives, was constituted from January 1, 1923, to December 31, 1924, during the last two years of George W. P. Hunt's fourth tenure as Gove ..., holding one of the two seats from Pima County. Biography He was the editor of the ''Southwest Labor Record''. He married Ramona Carljohn in Tombstone, Arizona on January 1, 1923. He ran for the Democrat nomination for the Arizona State Senate from Pima County. He and Harry Drachman finished 1–2, respectively, in the Democrat primary, and went on to win in November's general election. He did not seek re-election in 1924. References Democratic Party Arizona state senators 20th-century American legislators 20th-century Arizona politicians People from Pima County, Ariz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pima County
Pima County ( ) is a county in the south central region of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,043,433, making it Arizona's second-most populous county. The county seat is Tucson, where most of the population is centered. The county is named after the Pima Native Americans who are indigenous to this area. Pima County includes the entirety of the Tucson Metropolitan Statistical Area, and it is the third largest metropolitan area in the Southwestern United States. Pima County contains parts of the Tohono O'odham Nation, as well as all of the San Xavier Indian Reservation, the Pascua Yaqui Indian Reservation, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Ironwood Forest National Monument and Saguaro National Park. The vast majority of the county population lies in and around the city of Tucson (2021 city population: 543,242), filling much of the eastern part of the county with urban development. Tucson, Arizona's second largest city, is a major comme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elias Hedrick
Elias Hedrick (1862-1949) was an American politician from Arizona. He served a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 5th Arizona State Legislature, holding the seat from Pima County. Prior to his senate term, Hedrick served a single term in the Arizona House of Representatives during the 4th Arizona State Legislature. He was known as a philanthropist, particularly to the Methodist Episcopal Church in Tucson, Arizona. Outside of politics he was a highly successful real-estate man. Biography Hedricks was born in Alfordsville, Indiana, in 1862, although he always considered Washington, Indiana, his home town. In the 1890s, Hedrick worked as the superintendent of the Live Poultry Transportation Company in Chicago, Illinois. The Hedricks moved to Tucson in 1900 from Chicago, due to health of Ada Hedrick. After his arrival in Tucson in 1900, Hedrick was employed by the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a general platform manager. While working for the Southern Pacif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Smith (politician)
Claude Smith was an American politician from Arizona. He served a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 7th Arizona State Legislature, holding one of the two seats from Pima County. He was a veteran of World War I, and served as county attorney in Pima County. Biography Smith was born on March 26, 1891, in Caddo, Oklahoma. After graduating from the public schools in Oklahoma, Smith attended Washington & Lee University, where he graduated with a LL.B. in law in 1913. After graduating from Washington & Lee, he did postgraduate work at Yale University, studying constitutional law under William Howard Taft. Following Yale, he returned to Oklahoma, passed the bar, and served as U. S. probate attorney. At the outbreak of the U. S. entrance into World War I, Smith enlisted in the U. S. Army as private. By the time of his discharge in 1919, he had risen to the rank of N. C. O. When he returned to Oklahoma after the war, he went back to the position of probate a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Founded in 1828, it was predominantly built by Martin Van Buren, who assembled a wide cadre of politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party.M. Philip Lucas, "Martin Van Buren as Party Leader and at Andrew Jackson's Right Hand." in ''A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents 1837–1861'' (2014): 107–129."The Democratic Party, founded in 1828, is the world's oldest political party" states Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s. The party is a big tent, and though it is often described as liberal, it is less ideologically uniform than the Republican Party (with major individuals within it frequently holding widely different political views) due to the broader list of unique voting blocs that compose it. The historical predecessor of the Democratic Party is considered to be th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona State Senate
The Arizona State Senate is part of the Arizona Legislature, the state legislature of the US state of Arizona. The Senate consists of 30 members each representing an average of 219,859 constituents (2009 figures). Members serve two-year terms with term limits that limit Senators to four terms for a total of eight years. Members of the Republican Party are currently the majority in the Senate. There is currently 16 women serving in the Senate after Raquel Terán was appointed, making it the first time a majority of the body was composed of female members. As with the Arizona House of Representatives, members to the Senate are elected from the same legislative districts as House members, however one Senator represents the constituency, while for the House there are two Representatives per district. This districting system is similar to those of the Idaho and Washington State Senate. In political science, this type of legislative district is called a multi-member district. Like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6th Arizona State Legislature
The 6th Arizona State Legislature, consisting of the Arizona State Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives, was constituted from January 1, 1923, to December 31, 1924, during the last two years of George W. P. Hunt's fourth tenure as Governor of Arizona, in Phoenix. Sessions The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Phoenix Phoenix most often refers to: * Phoenix (mythology), a legendary bird from ancient Greek folklore * Phoenix, Arizona, a city in the United States Phoenix may also refer to: Mythology Greek mythological figures * Phoenix (son of Amyntor), a ... on January 7, 1923; and adjourned on March 10. There was no special session, which would have met during 1924, during this legislature. State Senate Members The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Employees * Secretary: L. S. Williams * Assistant Secretary: NELLIE A. HAYWARD Nellie A. Hayward * Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tucson Citizen
The ''Tucson Citizen'' was a daily newspaper in Tucson, Arizona. It was founded by Richard C. McCormick with John Wasson as publisher and editor on October 15, 1870, as the ''Arizona Citizen''. When it ceased printing on May 16, 2009, the daily circulation was approximately 17,000, down from a high of 60,000 in the 1960s. The ''Citizen'' published as Tucson's afternoon paper, six days per week (except Sunday, when only the ''Arizona Daily Star'' (Tucson's morning paper during the week) was published as part of the two papers' joint operating agreement). The ''Tucson Citizen'' was the oldest continuously published newspaper in Arizona at the time it ceased publication. History Founder Richard C. McCormick had originally been the owner of the '' Arizonan''. However, when the editor of the ''Arizonan'' refused to support McCormick's re-election as congressional delegate for the territory of Arizona, McCormick took the press and started the ''Arizona Citizen'' with Wasson. During t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tombstone, Arizona
Tombstone is a historic city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1877 by prospector Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory. It became one of the last boomtowns in the American frontier. The town grew significantly into the mid-1880s as the local mines produced $40 to $85 million in silver bullion, the largest productive silver district in Arizona. Its population grew from 100 to around 14,000 in less than seven years. It is best known as the site of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and presently draws most of its revenue from tourism. It also houses the highest-rated brewery in the state of Arizona. The town was established on Goose Flats, a mesa above the Goodenough Mine. Within two years of its founding, although far distant from any other metropolitan area, Tombstone had a bowling alley, four churches, an ice house, a school, two banks, three newspapers, and an ice cream parlor, alongside 110 saloons, 14 gambling halls, and numerous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona Daily Star
The ''Arizona Daily Star'' is the major morning daily newspaper that serves Tucson and surrounding districts of southern Arizona in the United States. History L. C. Hughes was the Arizona Territory governor and founder of the ''Arizona Star'', in 1877. The first issue was published on March 29, 1877. The newspaper became the ''Arizona Daily Star'' in June 1879. The paper was purchased by Pulitzer in 1971; Lee Enterprises bought Pulitzer in 2005. Awards In 1981, ''Star'' reporters Clark Hallas and Robert B. Lowe won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting for their stories about recruiting violations by University of Arizona football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... coach, Tony Mason. References External links * * ''Arizona Daily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Drachman
Harry Arizona Drachman was an Arizona pioneer, businessman and politician. He was born on February 3, 1869, in Tucson, Arizona, the first white Anglo-American male child born in Tucson. Drachman was a 33rd degree mason, and served as a deputy on the Supreme Council of Arizona. He joined the Masons in 1900, and held numerous high positions at the local, state, and national levels. He was also very active in the Knights of Pythias, having also joined that organization in 1900. He eventually rose to hold the position of the Supreme Representative in the organization's Supreme Lodge. Career He was the Tucson city treasurer from 1894 to 1898, and the Pima County treasurer between 1898 and 1902. Drachman was a member of the 6th Arizona State Legislature, as a Democrat member of the State Senate from Pima County, a position his brother, Mose had held during the 2nd Legislature. In 1882 he began working for the L. Zeckendorf & Co. store. In 1895 he left Zeckendorf's, and op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Paso Herald
The ''El Paso Herald-Post'' was an afternoon daily newspaper in El Paso, Texas, USA. It was the successor to the El Paso Herald, first published in 1881, and the El Paso Post, founded by the E. W. Scripps Company in 1922. The papers merged in 1931 under Scripps ownership. The ''Herald-Post'' was nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes in 1987 for a story about a Mexican drug lord and for its literacy campaign. It later launched the El Paso area's first online news site in 1996. When the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain shut the paper down in 1997, it cited a substantial decline in circulation, similar to that experienced by other afternoon newspapers in the U.S. at the time. On August 24, 2015, a former local news employee revived the ''El Paso Herald-Post'' brand by launching a website with the same name. However, the online-only publication has no affiliation with the former newspaper. External links "Texas' largest afternoon daily newspaper publishes final edition" Associated Press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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