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Arizona Senator Henry F. Ashurst

by | May 15, 2017 | True West Blog

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Henry Fountain Ashurst was one of the first two Senators elected when Arizona became a state in 1912. The other was the irrepressible former Tombstone lawyer Marcus Aurelius Smith. Henry was born in a covered wagon at Winnemuca, Nevada, his parents homesteaded the next year nine miles south of Williams, Arizona.  In 1877 they moved to a ranch near Mormon Lake, southeast of Flagstaff.  By the time he was fifteen he was working as a cowboy.  One time he rode in off the range with several cow


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