Joe Conway

Joseph Ward "Joe" Conway (born December 3, 1898 in Salt Lake City , Utah , † November 19, 1945 in Florence , Arizona ) was an American soldier, lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Joe Conway, son of Catherine Ward (1880-1939) and Mr. Conway, was born in Salt Lake City (Utah) in 1898, but grew up in Winkelman (Arizona). He attended grammar school there . After graduating from high school , he went to Arizona State College in Tempe, Arizona, where he graduated in 1918. During his student days he was editor of the yearbook and head of the school newspaper. He has received awards in basketball and baseball . He was also president of the student body and a club. After graduating from Arizona State College, he joined the armed forces. After his retirement he went to the University of Arizona , where he Jura studied and made 1924 its conclusion. While attending college, he worked in the mining sites and the smelter in Miami and Hayden ( Gila County ). During his university visit, he was responsible for the newspapers in Tucson ( Pima County operates). He worked for the Miami Evening Bulletin in Miami, and then began practicing law in the mining community in 1924. In 1928 he moved to Phoenix ( Maricopa County ), where he opened a law practice.

He was first elected Attorney General of Arizona in 1936. He took up his post on January 4, 1937. During his first tenure, he drew national attention by threatening to seize all assets of Phelps Dodge Corporation , the largest mining company in Arizona. In doing so, he forced the company to pay $ 4 million in property tax . As a result, there was a legal battle that lasted for most of the Great Depression. Conway was re-elected as Attorney General of Arizona three times. He held the post until his resignation in January 1944 to run for the US Senate against the Democratic incumbent Carl Hayden . In the following primary elections in July 1944, he suffered a defeat. Conway announced a week later that he would run again for the post of Attorney General of Arizona in the next election.

On November 19, 1945, he died in a car accident in Florence, Arizona. His body was interred in the Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery in Phoenix, Arizona. Conway was survived by his wife, Gertrude Conway, and a daughter and son-in-law, JO Brugh of Phoenix.

He was a member of the Luke Greenway Post, the American Legion, and the Miami Elks Lodge.

literature

• Joe Conway Is Killed , Arizona Republic, November 20, 1945

Web links

• Joe Conway in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Joe Conway on the Our Campaigns website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Catherine Ward Davenport in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved April 17, 2016 (English).