William Patrick Mahoney Junior

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William Patrick Mahoney junior (born November 27, 1916 in Prescott , Arizona , † 2000 ) was an American lawyer , soldier and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

William Patrick Mahoney junior, son of William Patrick Mahoney senior († 1967), was born in Yavapai County in 1916 . His father was a sheriff of Mohave County and a member of the Arizona Territory Senate . His childhood was overshadowed by the First World War and his youth by the Great Depression . William Patrick Mahoney Jr. attended Kingman , Prescott, and Winslow schools . He made his Bachelor of Arts in 1939 and his Bachelor of Laws in 1940 at the University of Notre Dame . During the Second World War he served in the US Navy . After the war, he served as a Navy Trial Judge Advocate on war crimes in the Pacific Ocean area . During his tenure he was instrumental in the conviction of Japanese officers responsible for the execution of 102 American prisoners of war on Wake Island .

In May 1946 he married Alice Phelan Doyle (1923-2011), daughter of Gladys Sullivan and Richard E. Doyle. The couple had nine children. Their first born child was William P. Mahoney III. (* April 18, 1947). Among the children who followed was the future Secretary of State of Arizona Richard D. Mahoney .

William Patrick Mahoney Jr. served as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona for two years . He then practiced in his own legal practice until 1953. From 1953 to 1956 he was a county attorney for Maricopa County . On May 21, 1962 he was appointed US ambassador to Ghana by President John F. Kennedy . He took up his post on June 22, 1962 and held it until May 26, 1965.

After serving as US Ambassador, he practiced as a lawyer in Phoenix, Arizona.

Mahoney was elected to the Central Arizona Water Conservation District in 1994.

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  1. ^ A b c William Patrick Mahoney Sr. , Arizona Republic, August 1, 1967, p. 11
  2. ^ William Patrick Mahoney, Jr. , Arizona Republic, April 30, 1954, p. 8
  3. ↑ a b c ABA Journal , Jan. 1967, Volume 53, p. 47
  4. ^ Wiles, Tripp: Forgotten Raiders of '42: The Fate of the Marines Left Behind on Makin , Potomac Books, Inc., 2007, ISBN 978-1-5979-7055-6 , p. 109
  5. ^ A b Karman, James: The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume Three, 1940-1962 , Stanford University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8047-9477-0 , p. 458
  6. ^ William Patrick Mahoney, Jr. on the Maricopa County Attorney's Office website
  7. ^ Meeting with the US Ambassador to Ghana, William P. Mahoney, Jr., 11:13 AM , John F. Kennedy Presidential Library And Museum
  8. ↑ William P. Mahoney Oral History Interview - JFK # 1, 5/14/1975 , John F. Kennedy Presidential Library And Museum
  9. ↑ Results of the elections for the Central Arizona Water Conservation District in 1994
predecessor Office successor
Francis H. Russell US Ambassador to Ghana
1962–1965 		Franklin Williams
personal data
SURNAME Mahoney, William Patrick Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, soldier, and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Prescott , Arizona
DATE OF DEATH 2000