Herb Drinkwater (August 28, 1936 – December 28, 1997) was an American politician from the state of Arizona. Herbert Raymond Drinkwater, was the oldest child of Herbert Drinkwater (1909-1992) and Alice Estella Bumstead (1913-1987). His father was born in England, his mother in

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, where they married and had their first child: Herbert. After World War II, the family moved to Phoenix where Herbert Sr was a high school

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teacher. Herbert Raymond Drinkwater was mayor of Scottsdale from 1980 to 1996, when he was diagnosed with salivary gland cancer.

Personal

One of Drinkwater's sons, Mark Drinkwater, used to own Drinkwater's City Hall Restaurant at the

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in Scottsdale. Mark was also part of the ownership group at Drinkwater's City Hall Steakhouse in downtown Scottsdale but sold the restaurant in 2007 and the name changed to Mastro's City Hall Steakhouse.

Legacy

The city of Scottsdale has a boulevard named after him; a

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of Drinkwater was built at the boulevard. The statue was dedicated on May 10, 2003.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Drinkwater, Herb 1936 births 1997 deaths Mayors of places in Arizona Politicians from Scottsdale, Arizona 20th-century American politicians