Transcript Famous Arizonans Power Point

Arizona Notes
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The Grand Canyon
Journal Question: What is the
most interesting geographical
place that you have ever visited
in Arizona? Describe your trip
in some detail. If you have not
been to any places in Arizona,
describe some places that you
would like to visit.
1. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado was a
Spanish conquistador, who, between 1540
and 1542, visited New Mexico and other
parts of what is now the southwestern
United States. Coronado searched for
many treasures in the West but ended his
life in bankruptcy in Mexico City.
2. Charles Debrille Poston
was an American explorer,
prospector, author,
politician, and civil
servant. He is referred to
as the "Father of Arizona"
due to his efforts lobbying
for creation of the Arizona
Territory. Poston was also
the Arizona Territory’s first
delegate to the U.S. House
of Representatives.
3.
John "Jack" Swilling was one of the
original founders of the city of Phoenix,
Arizona. He had a dual reputation for
kindness and a rough, tough side.
Biographers have indicated he may have
killed a dozen or more men, once shooting
and killing a man in Wickenburg, Arizona in
self-defense, then scalping him.
Swilling came
to Arizona to
prospect for
gold.
4. George Wylie Paul
Hunt was the
first, third, fifth,
and seventh
governor of the
State of Arizona.
Hunt led the
constitutional
convention that
drafted the state
constitution.
5. Carl Trumbull
Hayden was an
American politician
and the first United
States Senator to
serve seven terms.
Serving as Arizona's
first Representative
for eight terms
before entering the
Senate, Hayden still
holds the record for
the longest service
in the U.S.
Congress.
President John F. Kennedy said of Carl
Hayden: "Every Federal program
which has contributed to the
development of the West — irrigation,
power, reclamation — bears his mark,
and the great Federal highway
program which binds this country
together, which permits this State to
be competitive east and west, north
and south, this, in large measure, is
his (Hayden’s) creation."
6. Barry Morris Goldwater was a five-term
U.S. Senator from Arizona and the
Republican Party’s nominee for President
in the 1964 election. He was a Major
General in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. He
was also referred to as "Mr. Conservative.”
7. Sandra Day O'Connor served as an Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States from 1981 until her retirement from the
bench in 2006. The first woman to serve on
the Supreme Court, she was a crucial swing
vote on the Court for many years because of
her case-by-case approach and her relatively
moderate political views.