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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Ashurst, Henry Fountain
Ashurst, Henry Fountain, a Senator from Arizona; born in Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nev., September 13, 1874; moved to Arizona in 1875 with his parents, who settled near the present town of Flagstaff, Coconino County; attended the public schools of Flagstaff and was graduated from the Stockton (Calif.) Business College in 1896; studied law and political economy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; was admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Williams, Ariz.; member of the Territorial house of representatives in 1897 and 1899, serving as speaker in 1899; served in the Territorial senate in 1903; district attorney of Coconino County 1905-1908; moved to Prescott, Ariz., in 1909 and continued the practice of law; upon the admission of Arizona as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate by the unanimous vote of the first State legislative assembly on March 27, 1912, was reelected in 1916, 1922, 1928, and again in 1934, and served from March 27, 1912, to January 3, 1941; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1940; appointed a member of the Board of Immigration Appeals in the Department of Justice on April 8, 1941, and served until February 28, 1943, when he retired; resides in Washington, D.C.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Ashurst, Henry Fountain," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.794 Original Sources, accessed October 5, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LAJX19WN2FTL23Y.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Ashurst, Henry Fountain." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.794, Original Sources. 5 Oct. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LAJX19WN2FTL23Y.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Ashurst, Henry Fountain' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.794. Original Sources, retrieved 5 October 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LAJX19WN2FTL23Y.
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