| Confederate Governors
|
| In Office |
Name |
Party |
Tidbits |
Interred |
| 1860-1861 |
Lewis Owings
(1820-1875)
 |
- |
Elected by a group of
settlers in the southern half of the New Mexico Territory who drafted
a constitution for a proposed Arizona Territory. The US Congress
rejected the proposal.
[The New Mexico Territory of the US
was established in 1846 and consisted, more or less, of what are now
the states of Arizona and New Mexico. The proposed Arizona
Territory would take the southern halves of both present states.]
In 1861, a
convention held in the proposed Arizona Territory voted to secede from
the Union and join the Confederate States of America, with Owings
remaining as governor. |
Uknown |
| 1861-1862 |
John Baylor
(1822-1894)
 |
- |
As Lieutenant Colonel in
the Confederate Army, Baylor's forces won decisive control of the
proposed Arizona Territory in 1861, and he proclaimed himself
governor.
In 1862, he issued an order to kill all adult Apache
natives and take their children into slavery. The order so
appalled Confederate President Jefferson Davis that he relieved Baylor
of command.
Davis's order was moot as far as the territory was concerned since it
was lost to Union forces in July 1862. |
Uknown |
| Territorial Governors
|
| In Office |
Name |
Party |
Tidbits |
Interred |
| - |
John Addison
Gurley
(1813-1863)
 |
R |
Appointed Governor by
Abraham Lincoln, but died before taking office.
U.S. Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1859-63. |
Spring Grove Cemetery,
Cincinnati, Ohio |
| 1863-1866 |
John Noble
Goodwin
(1824-1887)
 |
R |
Appointed as Chief Justice
of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court by Abraham Lincoln, but
succeeded to governorship when original appointee died.
Lawyer.
Member of Maine State Senate, 1854.
U.S. Representative from Maine 1st District, 1861-63
Justice of Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, 1863.
Delegate to U.S. Congress from Arizona Territory, 1865-67.
Left the territory upon end of his term. |
Forest Grave Cemetery,
Augusta Maine |
| 1866-1869 |
Richard
Cunningham
McCormick
(1832-1901)
 |
R |
First governor to bring
his wife to the territory.
Reporter, Newspaperman.
Established first two newspapers in the territory: Arizona Miner
in Prescott, Arizona Citizen in Tucson.
War correspondent in the Crimean and the Civil Wars.
Secretary of Arizona Territory, 1863-66.
Delegate to U.S. Congress from Arizona Territory, 1869-75,
Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Arizona
Territory, 1880,
U.S. Representative from New York 1st District, 1895-97. |
Grace Churchyard, Jamaica,
New York |
| 1869-1877 |
Anson Peacely
Killen Safford
(1830-1891)
 |
R |
Known as the "Little
Governor" because of his short stature; also known as the
Governor who granted himself a divorce.
Lawyer.
Member of California State Assembly 17th District, 1857-59.
County Commissioner, Humboldt County, Nevada, 1882. |
Cycadia Cemetery, Tarpon
Springs, Florida |
| 1877-1878 |
John Philo
Hoyt
(1841-1926)
 |
- |
Teacher, Lawyer.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Member of Michigan State House of Representatives, 1873-76.
Secretary of Arizona Territory, 1876.
Justice of Washington Territorial Supreme Court, 1879-87.
Delegate to Washington State Constitutional Convention, 1889.
Justice of Washington State Supreme Court, 1890-97. |
Washelli Cemetery,
Seattle, Washington |
| 1878-1882 |
John Charles
Fremont
(1813-1890)
 |
R |
Engineer/topographer.
Governor of California in 1847.
Senator from California, 1850-51.
Candidate for President of the United States against James Buchanan,
1856.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Did not come to Arizona until 5 months after appointed Governor.
Departed to the East from 1879, returning to Arizona only to resign
in 1881.
Legalized gambling in the territory and started a lottery to pay for
schools and public buildings which collapsed leaving Michel
Goldwater (grandfather of Barry Goldwater) to provide refunds for
ticket holders.
Episcopalian.
Died of peritonitis. |
Original interred at
Trinity Church Cemetery, New York, N.Y.
Reinterred at Rockland Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y. in 1891 |
| 1882-1885 |
Frederick
Augustus Tritle
(1833-1906)
 |
|
First Governor to be
living in territory at the time of appointment.
First Governor to be buried in Arizona.
Lawyer.
Administration remembered for the "Thieving Thirteenth"
Legislature which overpaid themselves for fictitious services, and
which created the Territorial Normal School in Tempe (Arizona State
University), the University of Arizona in Tucson, the Insane Asylum
in Phoenix.
Member of Nevada State Senate, 1866.
Delegate to Arizona State Constitutional Convention, 1891.
Yavapai County Recorder, 1895-1897.
Supervisor of the Arizona Census, 1900.
Episcopalian. |
Greenwood
Memorial Park, Phoenix [Plot: Section 7, Block 10, Lot 1] |
| 1885-1889 |
Conrad Meyer
Zulick
(1839-1926)
 |
D |
Held in a Mexican jail at
the time of his appointment; released when his New Jersey and Sonora
Copper Mines paid debts owed to the Mexican Government.
Previous administrative appointments refused to leave office when
Zulick was appointed because of his shady reputation.
Lawyer.
Signed the order that moving the capital from Prescott to Phoenix,
1889.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Member 16th Arizona Territorial Legislature, 1890. |
Easton Cemetery, Easton
Pennsylvania. |
| 1889-1890 |
Lewis Wolfley
(1839-1910)
 |
R |
Only bachelor to serve as
territorial governor.
Studied law.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Established the Arizona Republican newspaper (later
became the Arizona Republic ) to further his political ends.
Withheld pay from certain judges to replace them with "Good
Republicans."
In office when a forger attempted to seize a 18,750 square-miles in
Central Arizona in the Peralta Grant scandal, and when the Gila
River Dam washed out causing $750,000 of damages.
Died after being run down by a street car in California. |
Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Prescott |
| 1890-1892 |
John Nichol
Irwin
(1847-1905)
 |
- |
Lawyer.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Member of Iowa State House of Representatives, 1875.
Mayor of Keokuk, Iowa, 1876, 1887.
Governor of Idaho Territory, 1883.
U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1899-1900. |
Oakland Cemetery, Keokuk,
Iowa |
| 1892-1893 |
Nathan Oakes
Murphy
(1849-1908)
 |
R |
Opened a Normal School in
Flagstaff (to become Northern Arizona University),1899.
Teacher, lawyer.
Delegate to U.S. Congress from Arizona Territory, 1895-97.
Secretary of Arizona Territory, 1889.
Appointed governor twice 1892-3 & 1898-1902.
Delegate to U.S. Congress from Arizona Territory, 1895-97. |
Originally interred
Masonic Cemetery, San Diego, California
Reinterred Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. |
| 1893-1896 |
Louis Cameron
Hughes
(1842-1915)
 |
- |
Immigrant from Wales, was
an indentured servant to a Calvinist farmer until he was 16.
Invited by Theodore Roosevelt to the christening of the USS Arizona,
but refused because champagne was used in the ceremony.
Machinist, Lawyer, Newspaperman.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Married E. Josephine Brawley, whom Governor called the "Mother
of Arizona, " and was a member of the Women's Suffrage
Movement, friend of Susan B. Anthony, and a prime mover in the
establishment of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Arizona.Arizona Territory Attorney General, 1873-74.
On the board of managers for the Chicago World's Fair, 1891. |
Evergreen
Cemetery, Tucson |
| 1896-1897 |
Benjamin
Joseph Franklin
(1839-1898)
 |
D |
Claimed ancestry to the
Benjamin Franklin.
Lawyer.
Member of Kansas state senate, 1860.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
U.S. Representative from Missouri, 1875-79.
Episcopalian.
Died of heart disease. |
Rosedale
Cemetery, Pioneer & Military Memorial Park, Phoenix |
| 1897-1898 |
Myron H.
McCord
(1840-1908)
 |
R |
Lawyer.
Member of Wisconsin State Senate, 1873-74.
Member of Wisconsin State Assembly, 1880-82.
U.S. Representative from Wisconsin 9th District, 1889-91.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War.
Presbyterian.
Died of Bright's disease (nephritis-kidney inflammation). |
Merrill Cemetery, Merrill,
Wisconsin |
| 1898-1902 |
Nathan Oakes
Murphy
(1849-1908) |
R |
See above. |
See above. |
| 1902-1905 |
Alexander
Oswald Brodie
(1849-1918)
|
R |
Soldier, lawyer.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War.
Delegate to Republican National Convention from Arizona Territory,
1904. |
Arlington National
Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia |
| 1905-1909 |
Joseph H.
Kibbey
(1853-1924)
 |
R |
Lawyer.
Justice of Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, 1889.
Member Arizona Territorial Council, 1902.
Arizona Territory Attorney General, 1904.
Arizona Territory delegate to Republican National Convention, 1904, |
Greenwood
Memorial Park, Phoenix |
| 1909-1912 |
Richard E.
Sloan
(1857-1933)
 |
R |
Lawyer.
Member Arizona Territorial Council, 1888-89.
Justice of Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, 1889-93, 1897-1909.
Arizona Territory delegate to Republican National Convention, 1908.
Judge of U.S. District Court, 1912-13.
Presbyterian. |
Greenwood
Memorial Park, Phoenix [Plot: Section 11 Block 10 Lot 4 Space 1
GPS (lat/lon): 33.2721, -112.06597] |
| State
Governors |
| In Office |
Name |
Party |
Tidbits |
Interred |
| 1911-1917 |
George Wylie
Paul Hunt
(1859-1934)
 |
D |
Born in Huntsville,
Missouri.
Moved to Globe, AZ in 1881 as a poor, young man.
Nine years later he was one of the wealthiest men in the territory.
Member of Arizona
Territorial Legislature, 1892-1900, 1904-10.
Delegate to Arizona State Constitutional Convention, 1910.
Governor of Arizona, 1912-17, 1917-19, 1923-29, 1931-33.
U.S. Minister to Siam, 1920-21. |
Papago
Park, Phoenix |
| 1917 |
Thomas Edward
Campbell
(1878-1944)
 |
R |
First native-born
governor, first Republican governor.
Was apparent winner in 1916 gubernatorial election, but an Arizona
Supreme Court decision several months later awarded the disputed
election to Hunt.
Soldier.
Governor of Arizona, 1917, 1919-23.
Member of Republican National Committee from Arizona, 1924.
Died from a cerebral hemorrhage on the State Capitol grounds. |
Mountain View Cemetery, Prescott |
| 1917-1919 |
George Wylie
Paul Hunt
(1859-1934) |
D |
See above. |
|
| 1919-1923 |
Thomas Edward
Campbell
(1878-1944) |
R |
See above. |
|
| 1923-1929 |
George Wylie
Paul Hunt
(1859-1934) |
D |
See above. |
|
| 1929-1931 |
John Calhoun
Phillips
(1870-1943)
 |
R |
Lawyer, Construction
Worker--worked on capitol building which he later occupied as
governor.
Called himself "the ugliest man in Arizona."
Refused to push for a raise for judges, explaining "if we raise
the salary, some really competent lawyer may run and beat me out of
a job!"
Died after suffering a heart attack while fishing. |
Greenwood Memory Lawn
Cemetery, Phoenix |
| 1931-1933 |
George Wylie
Paul Hunt
(1859-1934) |
D |
See above. |
|
| 1933-1937 |
Benjamin Baker
Moeur
(1869-1937)
 |
D |
Mobilized the Arizona
National Guard to prevent construction of Parker Dam, which was to
divert Colorado River water to Los Angeles, 1934.
Physician--delivered most of Tempe's babies for 36 years.
Secretary of the Board of Education for Arizona State Teachers
College at Tempe.
Died 71 days after leaving office. |
Double
Butte Cemetery, Tempe |
| 1937-1939 |
Rawghlie
Clement
Stanford
(1879-1963)
 |
D |
Lawyer.
Justice of Arizona State Supreme Court, 1943-55.
Chief Justice of Arizona Supreme Court, 1945-49, 1953-54. |
Greenwood Memory Lawn
Cemetery, Phoenix |
| 1939-1941 |
Robert Taylor
Jones
(1884-1958)
 |
D |
Civil Engineer--worked on
Panama Canal, owned drugstores in Tucson & Phoenix, the Jones
Western Store in Phoenix, and a cattle ranch near Chandler. |
Greenwood
Memorial Park, Phoenix |
| 1941-1948 |
Sidney Preston
Osborn
(1884-1948)
 |
D |
Only governor ever elected
to four consecutive terms.
In his sixth grade school books, he wrote "Sidney P. Osborn,
Governor of Arizona."
Career Politician.
Died in office from Lou Gehrig's Disease. |
Greenwood
Memorial Park, Phoenix |
| 1948-1951 |
Daniel E. Garvey
(1886-1974)
 |
D |
Secretary of State of
Arizona under Osborn, succeeding to governorship on his death.
Accountant, public servant. |
Evergreen Memorial Park,
Tucson |
| 1951-1955 |
John Howard
Pyle
(1906-1987)
 |
R |
Broadcaster, owner of KFAD
radio (now KTAR), war correspondent in WWII reporting Japanese
surrender from the USS Missouri. |
Double
Butte Cemetery, Tempe. |
| 1955-1959 |
Ernest W.
McFarland
(1894-1984)
 |
D |
Only person to serve in
highest position in all three branches of Arizona government: U.S.
Senator, governor, and Arizona Supreme Court Justice.
Lawyer.
Superior Court Judge, 1935-41.
U.S. Senator from Arizona & father of GI Bill, 1941-53; defeated
by Barry Goldwater in 1952.
Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arizona, 1964.
Justice of Arizona State Supreme Court, 1965-70.
Methodist. |
Greenwood
Garden Mausoleum, Greenwood Memory Lawn, Phoenix |
| 1959-1965 |
Paul Jones
Fannin
(1907-2002)
 |
R |
Entrepreneur--established
Fannin Gas & Supply.
Delegate to Republican National Convention from Arizona, 1964.
U.S. Senator from Arizona, 1965-77.
Methodist.
Died of a stroke at 94. |
Serenity
Mausoleum, Greenwood Memory Lawn, Phoenix |
| 1965-1967 |
Samuel Pearson
Goddard, Jr.
(1919-2006)
 |
D |
Lawyer.
Graduated from
Harvard University in 1941 where he was inducted into the Rowing Hall
of Fame in 1976.
Settled in Arizona after his marriage to Julia
Hatch in 1944 on a doctor's recommendation that the dry climate would
help his bride's rheumatoid arthritis.
Earned a law degree from the
University of Arizona in 1949.
Arizona Democratic state chair, 1960-62.
As governor, organized a compromised agreement among regional
governors facilitating the Central Arizona Project bringing Colorado
River water to central Arizona. Signed a bill into law bill
banning discrimination on grounds of race, gender, religion and
ethnicity.
His son, Terry Goddard, was Mayor of Phoenix (1984-1990) and
Attorney General of Arizona (2002-2011), and unsuccessful candidate
for state governor in 2008.
Unitarian. |
Unknown |
| 1967-1975 |
John R. "Jack" Williams
(1909-1998)
 |
R |
Radio announcer &
writer.
First Arizona governor to serve a 4 year term, notwithstanding an
unsuccessful recall attempt.
Called "One Eyed Jack" by detractors because his right eye
had been removed to get to a cancerous tumor when he was 5. In an
experimental treatment to stop the spreading cancer, doctors placed
a radium pellet on loan from Madame Curie in the socket overnight.
Glasses with one frosted lens became his trademark.
The two year
term of office for governor was extended to four years in 1968. |
Cremated. Ashes were to be
scattered in several special places across the state, according to
son. |
| 1975-1977 |
Raul Hector Castro
(1916- )
 |
D |
Born in Cananea, Mexico
Lawyer.
Resigned just
two years into his term to accept appointment as
Ambassador to Argentina by President Carter.
Pima County Attorney
1954-58.
Superior Court Judge, 1959-60.
U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador (1964-68), Bolivia (1968-69), Argentina
(1977-80).
In 2011 at 95 years of age, he became the nation's
oldest living former governor.
Detained by US Border Patrol on June 12, 2012 when
radiation was detected in vehicle; released when it was determined
that radiation was due to a medical procedure the previous day.I
Catholic. |
|
| 1977-1978 |
Wesley H.
Bolin
(1908-1978)
 |
D |
Succeeded to governorship
when Raul Castro resigned.
Secretary of State of Arizona 1949-77
under 7 governors.
Died in office, serving shortest term in office of any
Arizona governor (135 days).
Protestant. |
Cremated; ashes scattered
in Arizona. |
| 1978-1987 |
Bruce Edward
Babbitt
(1938- )
 |
D |
Attorney General at time of Bolin's death, succeeded to governorship
because Secretary of State (Rose Mofford) had been appointed, not
elected. He was elected to two full terms as governor.
Lawyer.
Arizona State Attorney General, 1975-78.
Candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1988.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1993-2001.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Trilateral Commission.
Catholic. |
|
| 1987-1988 |
Evan Mecham
(1924-2008)
|
R |
Known for incredibly
insensitive and inopportune public remarks including "I'm not a
racist...I employ them [blacks] because they are the best people who
applied for the cotton-picking job."
Car dealer.
Army Air Force Pilot during World War II receiving Air Medal and
Purple Heart.
Opened Mecham Pontiac and Rambler in Ajo, 1950, relocating to
Glendale in 1954.
Candidate for U.S. Senator from Arizona, 1962, 1992.
Candidate for governor five times, 1964, 1974, 1982, 1986, and 1989.
Indicted on six felony counts of perjury and filing a false campaign
report, 1988; later found not guilty.
Impeached, convicted, removed from office 1988.
Recall election scheduled but canceled because of impeachment, 1988.
Published his book, "Wrongful Impeachment" in 1998, renting space at
the Arizona State Fair where he signed and sold his book (pictured to
the left was taken at his booth).
Mormon. |
National
Memorial Cemetery of Arizona, North Cave Creek and East Pinnacle
Peak Roads, Phoenix, Az [Section 53, Grave Number 506]. |
| 1988-1991 |
Rose Mofford
(1922-2016)
 |
D |
Arizona's first female
governor.
Nobody didn't like Rose—possibly because she never ran
for governor. She succeeded to office following Mecham's
impeachment and by most accounts did a journeyman's job of restoring
respect and sanity to the office.
First female class president at Globe High School.
Valedictorian of Globe High School Class of 1939; All-American
softball player, turned down offer to play professional basketball
with the All American Red Heads.
Public Servant.
Secretary of State of Arizona, 1977-88, becoming known
as a competent administrator and for her friendliness,
punctuality, answering her own phone, and replying directly to her
mail.
Presidential Elector for Arizona, 1996.
Catholic. |
|
| 1991-1997 |
John Fife
Symington III
(1945- )
 |
R |
Developer.
Captain in USAF, receiving Bronze Star for service in Vietnam.
Convicted on seven counts of fraud relating to loans in development
of The Mercado, 1997.
Sentenced (suspended during appeal) to 30 months in a federal prison
camp, 5 years probation, 1998.
Conviction overturned on appeal because trial judge wrongfully
excluded a juror, 1999.
Before retrial, pardoned by President Clinton, along with 175 other
clemency grants the day before Clinton left office, 2001.
Episcopalian. |
|
| 1997-2003 |
Jane
Dee Hull
(1935- )
 |
R |
Succeeded to office upon
Symington's resignation upon conviction for fraud.
Teacher.
Represented District 18 in Arizona House of Representatives,
1978-93.
Arizona Secretary of State, 1994-97. |
|
| 2003-2009 |
Janet
Napolitano
(1958- )
|
D |
Succeeded a male incumbent
as Attorney General in 1998 making Arizona the only state to have an
all female line of succession with women holding the offices of
Governor (Jane Hull), Secretary of State (Betsey Bayless), Attorney
General (Janet Napolitano), Treasurer (Carol Springer) and
Superintendent of Public Instruction (Lisa Graham Keegan).
Napolitano was the only Democrat.
Born in New York City, raised in Pittsburgh and New Mexico,
Napolitano moved to Phoenix in 1983 to be a law clerk. She was
named U.S. attorney for Arizona in 1993 by President Clinton, and
won the state attorney general's post in 1998. She is single
and has no children.
A cancer survivor, Napolitano had her right breast removed in a
mastectomy in 2000.
Napolitano announced her support for Barack Obama early in his
primary campaign for President. Upon his election she was
appointed to his cabinet as Secretary of Homeland Security. To
the chagrin of state Democrats, she resigned from the office of
governor as soon as her appointment was confirmed. |
|
| 2009-2015 |
Jan Brewer
(1944- )
|
R |
Arizona's fourth (third
consecutive) female governor.
She owes her gubernatorial ascendency to
President Obama, whom she vehemently opposes—Secretary of State
Brewer became governor when the president appointed Governor Napolitano to his cabinet.
Brewer was elected Secretary of State in 2002, after 6 years as
chairman of the Maricopa
County Board of Supervisors (1996-2002) and 14 years in the Arizona State
Legislature in the House (1983-1986) and Senate (1987 to 1996).
She was a strong proponent of Arizona SB 1070 which required police suspecting
that person stopped may be in the country illegally investigate
immigration status of persons, detain the person if necessary for the
investigation, and arrest the person is suspicion is correct.
The US Supreme Court declared unconstitutional other provisions
requiring immigrants to carry documentation of lawful presence in the
country, allowing arrest of such immigrants without warrant, and
making it unlawful to apply for employment without federal work
authorization.
She also supported the defeated Arizona Proposition 107
(2006), and Arizona Proposition 102 (2008) which passed, both of which
ban same-sex marriages.
An NRA member, she signed into law bills
eliminating license requirements for concealed weapons, and allowing
concealed weapons to be carried into bars and restaurants, but vetoed
a bill allowing guns on college campuses.
She is married to Dr. John Brewer and is mother of three sons, one
of whom died from cancer in 2007, and another who has been a
psychiatric patient in the Arizona State Hospital since 1989 when he
was found not guilty of rape by reason of insanity.
She is a member of Life in Christ Lutheran
Church in Peoria. and has lived in Arizona since 1970.
|
|
| 2015- |
Doug Ducey
(1964- )
Photo by Gage Skidmore CC-BY-SA-3.0
|
R |
Ducey's campaign told voters
he would bring his business experience to the governor's office, not unlike
campaigns of prior governors Symington and Mecham—whom Ducey did not cite as
stellar examples of businessmen turned politician.
Ducey is
credited with the growth of Cold Stone Creamery which opened its first
store in 1988 in Tempe into a chain of nearly 1,400 locations.
Ducey attended Arizona State University where he met his wife, and
resides with her in Paradise Valley with their three sons. |
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