"Arizona" was the informal name given to the former Mexican territories annexed to
the US Territory of New Mexico as a result of the Gadsen purchase of 1854.
Feeling neglected by the territorial authorities in Santa Fé the inhabitants of the
region started agitating for the creation of a separate territory of Arizona and
in 1861 - taking advantage of the withdrawal of most federal troops - a Convention
assembled at Tucson [mar 16, Chairm. : Marck Aldrich 1801 - 1873)] proclaimed the
adhesion of the Territory of Arizona to the Confederate States.
Soon afterwards it was occupied by a Confederate militia (th" Tewas Mounted Rifles")
and its leader formally proclaimed the inclusion of Arizona into the Confederacy
(aug 01 , confirmed by the government on feb 14 1862).
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TERRITORIAL OFFICERS AND CONFEDERATE COMMANDERS
Territorial Governors
1861 Lewis S. Owings*, elected by the Convention
of Tucson that proclaimed the secession
1861 - 1862 LtCol. John Robert Baylor, before
Commander of the "Texas Mounted Rifles"
occupying the region for the Confederacy,
expelled by the Union 1822 - 1894
Commander of the Army of New Mexico
(Operating in Arizona and New Mexico in succession to the Texas Mounted Rifles)
1861 - 1862 BrigGen. Henry Hopkins Sibley 1816 - 1886
The Confederates were expelled in jul 1862 and the Territory was reintegrated into
New Mexico. (1)
(1) The region continued however to be a war zone, part of the Confederate
Trans-Mississippi Department until 1865.
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After the reconquest the US government yielded to the demands of the "Arizonians"
and in 1863 the western part of the Territory of New Mexico was detached to form
the new US Territory of Arizona. (2)
(2) US authority was only firmly established after the defeat of the major
Apache leader Geronimo (Goyathlay ; 1829 - 1890) in 1886.
It was also only after this date that large groups of white settlers
migrated to the region.
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TERRITORIAL OFFICERS
Territorial Governors
(Subordinated to the Department of State until 1873, afterwards to the Department
of the Interior)
1863 - 1866 John Noble Goodwin 1824 - 1887
1866 - 1869 Richard Cunningham McCormick 1832 - 1901
1869 - 1877 Anson Peacely Killen "A.P.K." Safford 1830 - 1891
1877 - 1878 John Philo Hoyt 1841 - 1926
1878 - 1881 John Charles Frémont 1813 - 1890
1881 - 1885 Frederick Augustus Tritle 1833 - 1906
1885 - 1889 Conrad Meyer Zulick 1839 - 1926
1889 - 1890 Lewis Wolfley 1839 - 1910
1890 - 1892 John Nichol Irwin 1847 - 1905
1892 - 1893 Nathan Oakes Murphy 1849 - 1908
1893 - 1896 Louis Cameron Hughes 1842 - 1915
1896 - 1897 Benjamin Joseph Franklin 1839 - 1898
1897 - 1898 Myron Hawley McCord 1840 - 1908
1898 - 1902 Nathan Oakes Murphy (2x)
1902 - 1905 Alexander Oswald Brodie 1849 - 1918
1905 - 1909 Joseph Henry Kibbey 1853 - 1924
1909 - 1912 Richard Elihu Sloan 1857 - 1933
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REPRESENTATIVES TO THE U.S. CONGRESS
Territorial Delegates
1864 - 1865 Charles Debrille Poston 1825 - 1902
1865 - 1867 John Noble Goodwin 1824 - 1887
1867 - 1869 Coles Bashford 1816 - 1878
1869 - 1875 Richard Cunningham McCormick 1832 - 1901
1875 - 1879 Hiram Sanford Stevens 1832 - 1893
1879 - 1881 John Goulder Campbell 1827 - 1903
1881 - 1885 Granville Henderson Oury 1825 - 1891
1885 - 1887 Curtis Coe Bean 1828 - 1904
1887 - 1895 Marcus Aurelius Smith 1851 - 1924
1895 - 1897 Nathan Oakes Murphy s.a.
1897 - 1899 Marcus Aurelius Smith (2x)
1899 - 1901 John Frank Wilson 1846 - 1911
1901 - 1903 Marcus Aurelius Smith (3x)
1903 - 1905 John Frank Wilson (2x)
1905 - 1909 Marcus Aurelius Smith (4x)
1909 - 1912 Ralph Henry Cameron 1863 - 1953
U.S. STATE OF ARIZONA
In 1912 Arizona became a State of the Union.
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STATE OFFICERS
Governors
1912 - 1919 George Wylie Paul Hunt 1859 - 1934
1919 - 1923 Thomas Edward Campbell 1878 - 1944
1923 - 1929 George Wylie Paul Hunt (2x)
1929 - 1931 John C. Phillips 1870 - 1943
1931 - 1933 George Wylie Paul Hunt (3x)
1933 - 1937 Benjamin Baker Moeur 1869 - 1937
1937 - 1939 Rawghlie Clement Stanford 1879 - 1963
1939 - 1941 Robert Taylor Jones 1884 - 1958
1941 - 1948 Sidney Preston Osborn 1884 - 1948
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