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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArizonaErnest William McFARLAND
(1894-1984)
Senate Years of Service:
1941-1953Party: DemocratMcFARLAND, Ernest William,
a Senator from Arizona; born on a farm near Earlsboro, Pottawatomie
County, Okla., October 9, 1894; attended the rural schools;
graduated from East Central State Teachers’ College, Ada,
Okla., in 1914, and from the University of Oklahoma at Norman in
1917; during the First World War served in the United States Navy;
after the war moved to Phoenix, Ariz., and was employed as a clerk
in a bank; graduated from the law department of Stanford (Calif.)
University in 1921; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Casa Grande, Pinal County, Ariz.; assistant attorney general of
Arizona 1923-1924, and county attorney of Pinal County 1925-1930;
moved to Florence, Ariz., in 1925; judge of the superior court of
Pinal County 1934-1940; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate in 1940; reelected in 1946 and served from January 3, 1941,
to January 3, 1953; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952;
majority leader 1951-1953; co-chairman, Joint Committee on
Navaho-Hopi Indian Administration (Eighty-first and Eighty-second
Congresses); Governor of Arizona 1955-1959; unsuccessful candidate
for election to the United States Senate in 1958; resumed the
practice of law; elected associate justice, Arizona supreme court,
in 1964, becoming chief justice in 1968, and serving until 1970;
member, National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of
Violence 1968-1969; director, Federal Home Loan Bank of San
Francisco; president of Arizona Television Company; died in
Phoenix, Ariz., June 8, 1984; interment in Greenwood Memorial Park,
Phoenix, Ariz.
Bibliography
American National Biography; McFarland, Ernest W. Mac:
The Autobiography of Ernest W. McFarland. n.p., 1979; McMillan,
James E., ed. The Ernest McFarland Papers: The United States
Senate Years, 1940-1952. Prescott, Ariz.: Sharlot Hall Museum
Press, 1995; McMillan, James E., Ernest W. McFarland: Majority
Leader of the United States Senate, Governor and Chief Justice of
the State of Arizona. Tucson: University of Arizona Press,
2006.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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