The Governor/Doctor of Arizona

Ben Moeur was a colorful character.

Arizona’s “Depression Governor” Ben Moeur was raised in San Antonio, Texas and liked to say, “I punched cows from the time I was six years old until I was twenty.” After graduating from medical school in 1896, he settled in Tempe. Despite his pedigree as a medical doctor, Doc Moeur maintained the cowboys’ proclivity towards a descriptive and colorful vocabulary. Once at a society gathering, he greeted a lady saying, “You sure look good.” She responded by saying, “I wish I could say the same for you.”He replied, “You could if you were as big a liar as me.”