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10 decades with Melanie Sturgeon

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Published: January 26, 2007 at 1:00 am

1900s
The referendum on joint statehood with New Mexico.
1910s
The Constitutional Convention, statewide prohibition and the Hunt-Campbell fiasco over the governorship.
1920s
The Colorado River Compact allocating water to the state..
1930s
The Federal Stock Reduction Program of 1934, which resulted in the Navajo Sheep Reduction Act. It had a devastating affect both economically and emotionally on Arizona’s Navajo people, and any other Native Americans who had herds.
Roosevelt Dam was constructed.
The Arizona State Archives was created in 1938. Although it was a “make work” project, it gathered all these great cultural things that may have otherwise been lost.
1940s
In 1946, the Arizona Right-to-Work law became effective, saying that people didn’t have to join a union to work.
1950s
Gov. John Pyle authorized a raid on a polygamist colony in Short Creek, now known as Colorado City, in northwest Arizona. People were so outraged that in doing so, he had broken up many families, that it cost him the next election.
In 1954, Youngtown, Ariz. became the first age-segregated town in the United States. The age requirement was written into the town charter.
1960s
In 1965, Lorna Lockwood was elected chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, making her the first woman to head a state supreme court.
1970s
Raul Castro was elected first Mexican-American governor of Arizona in 1975.
1980s
Gov. Evan Mecham was impeached and Rose Mofford became the first female governor of Arizona, opening the door for other women to follow in her footsteps.
1990s
Secretary of State Jane Dee Hull became governor upon the resignation of Fife Symington. .
2000s
Construction began on the new state archives building.
2010s
I hope that the state’s centennial celebration will cause people to look at themselves and say “I am an Arizonan.” I hope people will start looking at things that are right and things that are wrong and start to work together to make things better. With many people invested in the state, we can solve a lot of problems.

ARIZONA LEGISLATIVE REPORT

10 decades with Melanie Sturgeon

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