Ana Frohmiller

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Anastasia "Ana" Collins Frohmiller (born July 28, 1891 in Burlington , Vermont , † November 25, 1971 in Prescott , Arizona ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Ana Frohmiller was born in Chittenden County in 1891 . She was of Irish descent. When she was seven years old, her family moved to the Arizona Territory and settled there in Phoenix ( Maricopa County ) down. Frohmiller attended the local schools there. Her mother passed away while she was a sophomore at Phoenix Union High School . Frohmiller had six younger siblings, of whom the youngest brother was just three days old at the time of her mother's death. Although still a teenager, she took responsibility for the family in 1911 at the age of 16. She dropped out of school to work as an accountant in a butcher shop. 1916 she was a better book maintenance creation in the age of 25 years, Flagstaff ( Coconino County ) in the Babbitt Brothers Mercantile Company offered. She accepted the position and moved there with her siblings. For the next six years she worked for the Babbitt Brothers Mercantile Company as an accountant and continued her education through evening school and correspondence courses in law .

Frohmiller was named Treasurer of Coconino County in 1920 to fill the vacancy created by the incumbent's resignation. In the following elections in the autumn of the same year, she was elected for a two-year term and re-elected in 1922. In 1925 she founded the Flagstaff Business and Professional Women's Club, which she assisted in her successful candidacy in 1926 for the post of State Auditor of Arizona. Frohmiller was only one of only two women to hold this post in the United States . She was re-elected eleven times and held the post until the end of 1950. She often clashed with state officials. She was under a staff of 50 employees, which monitored the state payroll, expense reports, supplier invoices and pension benefits. During her tenure, she filed numerous lawsuits against public officials for criminal offenses, fraud, and waste of public funds, earning her the nickname "Watchdog of the Arizona Treasury." In 1943 she was responsible for the passage of a Financial Code that gave the State Auditor of Arizona complete control over the state budget.

On May 16, 1950, she announced her candidacy for the post of governor of Arizona. She said the following:

"Economy has been my watchword in the office with which the people have entrusted me 12 times. I believe no one questions that I have always fought to get a dollar's worth for every tax dollar spent. As auditor, I have never hesitated to reject what I considered an unjust claim against state funds. As governor, I will have authority to strike at waste and extravagance at their source. "

Her slogan during her campaign was:

"I offer the voters experience, not an experiment."

She won the Democratic primary against five male challengers. In the following elections in the same year, however, she suffered a defeat against the well-known radio talk show host John Howard Pyle of the Republican Party , whose campaign manager the future US Senator Barry Goldwater was. One of the factors that caused their campaign to fail was that there was a reluctance within the Democratic Party to raise funding for a twice-divorced candidate who often prosecuted Democrats for fraud. Frohmiller received only superficial support from her party. In a hard-fought election campaign it was defeated by its challenger by less than 3,000 votes. If she won the election, she would have become the first female governor of Arizona. Her friends urged her to request a recount. Frohmiller could not afford this financially. So she announced that she would not pay for such an undertaking and would not ask her supporters to do so.

After her term as a state auditor ended, she took up a position as Secretary and Treasurer of the Southwest Savings and Loan Association - a position she held until 1962. After her death in Prescott in 1971, she was buried there in Mountain View Cemetery .

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  1. ↑ The results of the election for the post of Governor of Arizona in 1950
personal data
SURNAME Frohmiller, Ana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frohmiller, Anastasia Collins (full name); Collins, Anastasia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Burlington , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1971
Place of death Prescott , Arizona