Charles O. Case

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Charles Orlando Case (born July 9, 1860 in Rock Island , Illinois , † November 25, 1933 in Phoenix , Arizona ) was an American teacher and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Charles Orlando Case, son of Charles Harrison Case and his wife Sarah Jane née Taylor, was born in 1860 near Rock Island, the county seat of Rock Island County . His father taught mathematics at Oberlin College and later served as a Baptist minister until his death. His childhood was overshadowed by the civil war and the early death of both of his parents. At the age of 8 he was on his own. He later attended Hillsdale College in Michigan .

In 1889 he moved to the Arizona Territory . For the next 20 years he served as a teacher and Principal of Superintendent of Schools in Globe , Alma, Mesa , Prescott, and Jerome . On February 14, 1912, Arizona became the 48th  state to join the union. While serving as Principal of Superintendent of Schools at Jerome in 1912, Case was elected Arizona’s first Superintendent of Public Instruction for a two-year term . He was re-elected three times in a row and held the post until early 1919. His terms in office were overshadowed by the First World War . In 1922 he was re-elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of Arizona. He was re-elected four times. In his fifth re-election, he suffered a loss to Herman E. Hendrix in the Democratic primary . Case held the post until early 1933. The Great Depression overshadowed his final terms in office.

Case was a member of the Arizona Education Committee, a regent at the University of Arizona , Chairman of the Education Committee at Arizona State Teachers 'College , Tempe , a member of the Education Committee at Arizona State Teachers' College , Flagstaff, and a member of the Arizona Board of Pardons. Much of his political success is attributed to his good relationship with his former students. For many Arizona residents, he embodied a man of character, vision, and ability. They were qualities that were needed for the development of the new state's educational system. Case had strong literary skills and was the author of numerous articles and a few poems. Courage, nobility, strength of character, determination, goal setting, high ideals, gentleness and generosity were his dominant traits.

Case belonged to the Freemasons ( Free and Accepted Masons ), the Woodmen of the World , the Loyal Order of Moose , the Arizona State Education Association and the National Education Association to.

On July 26, 1892, he married his wife Angie (1868-1953), daughter of Amelia Jane Thompson Jackson (1835-1924) and Malie Monroe Jackson (1835-1926), a pioneer in Arizona in Phoenix. The couple had four children: Lawrie, Harvey, Wilmyth, and Eugene Malie (1904–1961).

Case died in Phoenix in 1933 and was buried there in the Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Charles O. Case in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  2. ^ Smith, Zachary Alden: Politics and Public Policy in Arizona , Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780275971182 , pp. 93f
  3. ↑ a b c Charles O. Case on the ElectionsInfo website
  4. ↑ Bury, John Charles: The Historical Role Of Arizona's Superintendent Of Public Instruction , Volume 2, Northern Arizona University, December 1974, p. 312 (alternative death date: November 27, 1933)
  5. ↑ Angie Jackson Case in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  6. ↑ Eugene Malie Case in the database of Find a Grave . Retrieved January 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Case, Charles O.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Case, Charles Orlando (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American teacher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH at Rock Island , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1933
Place of death Phoenix , Arizona