Ernest W. McFarland

Professor James Elton McMillan has produced a very impressive full-length biography of one of the most significant U.S. Senators of the twentieth century and one of a short list of outstanding politicians to serve the state of Arizona since it became the forty-eighth state in 1912. While Senator Carl Hayden may have served longer in the U.S. Senate than anyone but four senators in its entire history, and Senator Barry Goldwater may have achieved more national fame as the Republican presidential nominee in 1964 and as the apostle of the conservative Republican rise to power in the 1980s, Ernest McFarland accomplished something unique in U.S. political history. He rose to prominence in all three branches of government, serving two full terms in the U.S. Senate and rising to Senate majority leader for two years; serving as governor of his state for a pair of two-year terms; and serving on the state supreme court, first as an associate justice for four years and then as chief justice for two years. Altogether, he served his state in public office for twenty-two years

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