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Senate Years of Service: 1965-1977 Party: Republican
FANNIN, Paul Jones, a Senator from Arizona; born in Ashland, Boyd County, Ky., January
29, 1907; moved to Phoenix, Ariz., in October 1907; attended the University of
Arizona; graduated from Stanford University; businessman involved in petroleum
and equipment distribution in the Southwest and Mexico; elected Governor of
Arizona in 1958 and reelected in 1960 and 1962; chairman, Western Governors
Conference; member, Executive Committee of Council of State Governors, National
Civil Defense Advisory Council; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate in 1964; reelected in 1970 and served from January 3, 1965, to January
3, 1977; was not a candidate for reelection in 1976; was a resident of Phoenix,
Arizona, until his death due to a stroke on January 13, 2002; interment in
Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz.
BibliographyScribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; U.S.
Congress. Tributes to the Honorable Paul J. Fannin of Arizona.
94th Cong., 2d sess., 1976. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1976.
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