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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArizonaMcFARLAND, Ernest William
(1894—1984)
Senate Years of Service:
1941-1953
Party:
Democrat
McFARLAND, 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.
McFarland, Ernest W. Mac: The Autobiography of Ernest W. McFarland
. Privately published, 1979.
McMillan, James Elton, Jr. “Ernest W. McFarland: Southwestern Progressive. The United States Senate Years, 1940-1952.” Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, 1990.
___. The Ernest W. McFarland Papers: The United States Senate Years, 1940-1952
. Prescott, Ariz.: Sharlot Hall Museum Press, 1995.
___. “First Sooner Senator: Ernest W. McFarland’s Oklahoma Years, 1894-1919.” Chronicles of Oklahoma
72 (Summer 1994): 178-99.
___. “McFarland and the Movies: The 1941 Senate Motion Picture Hearings.” The Journal of Arizona History
29 (Autumn 1988): 277-302.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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