John Quebedeaux

John L. Quebedeaux (born 1919 in El Paso , Texas , † July 15, 1996 in Tucson , Arizona) was an American soldier, businessman and politician ( Republican Party ).

Career

John L. Quebedeaux was born in Texas in 1919. His family moved to Arizona after his birth, settling there in Winslow ( Navajo County ) down. He spent the first six years of his life there. His family moved to New Mexico at that time and settled in Albuquerque ( Bernalillo County ). He attended the local schools. In 1936 he graduated from Albuquerque High School . That same year he moved back to Arizona and settled in Prescott ( Yavapai County down). He then worked for the Bank of Arizona in Prescott.

During the Second World War he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1941 and served in the South Pacific for three years until the end of the war .

After the war he returned to Arizona. Quebedeaux joined in 1945 a position as Secretary and Treasurer in the Chevrolet dealership in Phoenix ( Maricopa County at) operatively his uncle toilet Quebedeaux. He worked there until the dealership was sold in 1957. He then went into investment business until he became State Treasurer of Arizona. On May 1, 1958, he acquired the Tucson-Pontiac dealership from Hackett Motors together with the two former sales managers at the Chevrolet dealership Harry Jennings and Bill Hoffman. Quebedeaux met in September 1960 to his two business partners in Tucson added, as Hoffman institutions made the Pontiac dealership in Los Angeles ( California ) to acquire. However, a few weeks after the contract was signed, Hoffman suddenly passed away.

Quebedeaux was director of the Arizona Blue Cross from 1958 to 1960.

The governor of Arizona Paul Jones Fannin appointed him in March 1960. State Treasurer of Arizona to a vacancy to fill. Quebedeaux decided because of his business interests in Tucson against a candidacy for the post of State Treasurer of Arizona in the following elections in the fall of 1960 and stepped down in January 1961 from office.

From 1962 to 1971, he was, over time, vice president, president, and director of the Arizona Boys Ranch, a home for underprivileged boys. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Automobile Dealers Association for a three-year term in 1966 and was later re-elected. In January 1967 he took up his post and held it until 1972. In 1967 he also became chairman of Heart Drive.

In 1974 he received the Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award.

Quebedeaux retired from his position as president of his dealership in 1983.

He died of complications from cancer in his Tucson home in 1996 at the age of 77.

family

John Quebedeaux was married to Lucile Ming (1919-2008). The couple had three children: Lorraine, Thomas and Carol Ann.

literature

• Gomez, Jen: J. Quebedeaux, retired car dealer , Tucson Citizen, July 17, 1996
• Former Prescott Resident Named To Directorship , Prescott Evening Courier, Aug. 1, 1966, p. 3
• John Quebedeaux , Tucson Daily Citizen, Jan 12, 1968, 41

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Quebedeaux , Arizona Republic, Aug. 3, 1960, p. 16
2. ↑ Lucile Ming Quebedeaux on the legacy.com website