When Carl Hayden retired from the U. S. Senate in 1969 he’d served in Congress fifty-seven years, longer than any person in the history of the nation. At the time of his retirement Hayden was president pro tempore, making him third in line for the presidency.
A native son, he was born in Tempe on October 2nd, 1877. His father, Charles Trumbull Hayden, had arrived in Tucson in 1857 on the first But
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