Throughout his public career Hayden exhibited a continuing concern for natural resources. He made a political career as a Democrat starting early in a century when that party was to play a dominant role in national politics. On the other hand, Arizona achieved admission as a state at an opportune moment in Hayden's career. One major obstruction occurred when adverse family finances necessitated his dropping out of the university before he could achieve a law degree. While his career appears to have been planned in advance, there were roadblocks along the way. He characterized his role in the Congress as that of a "workhorse" rather than that of a "show-horse". Hayden's early education was the beginning of a lifetime spent in public affairs. ![]() After election to the Senate in 1926, he became known as the "silent senator" but nonetheless influenced federal policymaking in natural resource development, water reclamation, and land-use management. Ten years later he returned as Arizona's first congressman. Carl married Nan Downing, a southern California high school teacher, in 1908.Īs a twenty-five-year-old Carl Hayden travelled to Washington to lobby for the Salt River Project as Congress debated the Federal Reclamation Act in 1902. His mother, Sallie, was active in early women's political activism and sisters Mary (Mapes) and Sallie were active outside their homes. Hayden's pioneer father, Charles Trumbull Hayden, founded Tempe and was a leader in establishing what is now Arizona State University. Hayden was arguably the single most important individual in shaping Arizona's rapid growth from a sparsely settled, arid frontier territory near the beginning of the twentieth century to a modern urban state in the last half of the century. ![]() From his first election to Congress until his final retirement Hayden never lost an election and typically faced weak or no opponents at election time. The Arizona senator was president pro-tempore of the Senate from January of 1957 to January of 1969. Hayden was not a candidate for re-election to the Senate in 1968. He was elected to the US Senate in 1926 for the term commencing Maand was re-elected in 1932, 1938, 1944, 1950, 1956, and 1962 for the term ending January 3, 1969. During the First World War he was commissioned a major in the US Army. He was re-elected to the succeeding seven Congresses, serving from Februto March 3, 1927. ![]() Hayden's first full-time elective office was treasurer of Maricopa County (1904-1906) followed by sheriff of Maricopa County (1907-1912).Īfter Arizona was admitted to the Union as a state, Hayden was elected as a Democrat to the 62nd Congress. He served as a member of the Tempe Town Council (1902-1904) and as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. His family's mercantile enterprises and the flour-milling business in his hometown of Tempe claimed his attention from 1900 to 1904. He attended Stanford University in California (1896-1900), where he met Nan Downing, who later became his wife. After attending public schools, he graduated from the Normal School of the Territory of Arizona at Tempe in 1896. Greater Arizona CollectionĬarl Trumbull Hayden, US Representative and Senator, was born in Hayden's Ferry (now Tempe), Maricopa County, Arizona on October 2, 1877. The bulk of the collection documents Hayden's activities as an United States Senator from Arizona from 1940 to 1968.Īrizona State University Library. Hayden Papers consist of personal and political correspondence, newsclippings, speeches, legislation, congressional and senatorial files, research notes, printed matter and memorabilia dating from 1851 to 1979. ![]() Physical Dimensions1.2 " x 1" Date Original 1979 Date Range 1970s (1970-1979) Type Physical Object Original Format Metal Pin Language English Contributing InstitutionThunderbird School of Global Management Collection Thunderbird Classic Balloon Race SubcollectionTB 6 Rights StatementCopyright to some materials in this resource is held by the Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University and is provided here for educational purposes only.Bookmark this page or copy and paste URL to Email message Creator American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird School of Global Management) Contributor Thunderbird School of Global Management Browse Topic Recreation Transportation and Travel Subject Balloon racing-Arizona-Glendale Ballooning-United States-History Hot-air balloons Thunderbird School of Global Management-Balloon Race DescriptionThis is a commemorative pin created for the 1979 Thunderbird Balloon Race.
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