Robert W. Pickrell (November 25, 1922 – August 10, 2017) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the
Attorney General of Arizona
The Arizona Attorney General is the chief legal officer of the State of Arizona, in the United States. This state officer is the head of the Arizona Department of Law, more commonly known as the Arizona Attorney General's Office. The state attorne ...
from 1961 to 1965.
Education and career
Pickrell attended
Phoenix Union High School for one year before his family moved to
Tucson. He graduated from Tucson Senior High School in 1940. After three years at the
University of Arizona, Pickrell joined the Army. He served as a rifleman and flame thrower during
World War II during the campaigns in Italy and Southern France. Returning to the University of Arizona, Pickrell received a bachelor of arts degree and obtained his law degree two years later. After graduating, he first practiced law in
Willcox two years with the Bisbee firm of Gentry & Gentry. He also served for one year on the Willcox High School Board of Education.
In 1951, Pickrell became an attorney for the
Arizona Industrial Commission
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and two years later became an Assistant Attorney General representing the State Land Department and the
Arizona Corporation Commission. From 1955 to 1960, he was engaged in private practice with his own law firm, Pickrell, Hunter, Hunter, Bartlett and Penn."
Pickrell was elected attorney general in 1960 defeating incumbent
Wade Church
Wade Church (May 4, 1908 – December 4, 2002) was an American politician who served as the Attorney General of Arizona from 1959 to 1961. Church is the most recent incumbent attorney general to lose a general election in Arizona.
Church gradua ...
and was re-elected in 1962 in a rematch against Church.
In
1966
Events January
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, Pickrell ran for governor but lost in the republican primary to
Jack Williams.
Death
He died on August 10, 2017, in
Phoenix, Arizona at age 94.
References
1963 Photo– Arizona Tribune
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1922 births
2017 deaths
Arizona Attorneys General
Arizona Republicans
United States Army personnel of World War II