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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArizonaASHURST, Henry Fountain
(1874—1962)
Senate Years of Service:
1912-1941
Party:
Democrat
ASHURST, Henry Fountain, a Senator from Arizona; born in Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nev., September 13, 1874; moved with his parents to Arizona in 1875 and settled near the present town of Flagstaff, Coconino County; attended the public schools of Flagstaff and graduated from the Stockton (Calif.) Business College in 1896; studied law and political economy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; 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 was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on March 27, 1912; 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; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Industrial Expositions (Sixty-third Congress), Committee to Investigate Trespassers on Indian Land (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on the Judiciary (Seventy-third through Seventy-sixth Congresses); 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; died in Washington, D.C., May 31, 1962; interment in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Prescott, Ariz.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Ashurst, Henry F. A Many-Colored Toga: The Diary of Henry Fountain Ashurst.
Edited by George F. Sparks. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962.
Ashurst, Henry F. A Many-Colored Toga: The Diary of Henry Fountain Ashurst.
Edited by George F. Sparks. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962.
___. Speeches of Henry Fountain Ashurst of Arizona.
Phoenix: Sen. Barry Goldwater, 1956.
___. “Three Years of the Diary of Henry Fountain Ashurst, 1910-1913.” Introductory essay by George F. Sparks; annotations by Herman E. Bateman and Ray Brandes. Arizona and the West
3 (Spring 1961): 7-38.
___. Up in Coconino County: Pages from the Journal of Henry Fountain Ashurst.
Edited by Grant Dahlstrom. Pasdena: Castle Press, 1957.
Cognac, Robert Earl. “The Senatorial Career of Henry Fountain Ashurst.” Master’s thesis, Arizona State University, 1953.
Sparks, George F. “The Speaking of Henry Fountain Ashurst.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Utah, 1953.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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