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Centennial Profiles

Mar 12, 2012

The Gold Standard: Barry Goldwater’s 30-year U.S. Senate career made him an icon in Arizona politics

Barry Goldwater was born three years before Arizona became a state. Who could have imagined that this toddler would become the man most associated with the Grand Canyon State? A five-term U.S. senator and the Republican presidential candidate in 1964, he epitomized the ruggedness of the Wild West and loved the state, with its magnificent vistas, as much as anyone possibly could.

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