Call Him Mac
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Call Him Mac

Ernest W. McFarland, the Arizona Years

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eBook - ePub

Call Him Mac

Ernest W. McFarland, the Arizona Years

About this book

The political life of Ernest W. McFarland—lawyer, judge, senator, governor, Arizona Supreme Court justice, and businessman—is well documented. Less known is his life as a family man, country lawyer, rural judge, and visionary.

In Call Him Mac, Gary L. Stuart renders a nuanced portrait of a young, ambitious, restless, and smiling man on the verge of becoming a political force headed for the highest levels of governance in Arizona and America. Stuart reveals how Mac became an expert on water law and a visionary in Arizona's agricultural future. Using interviews with friends and family and extensive primary source research, Stuart spotlights Mac's unerring focus as a loving husband, father, and grandfather, even in times of great personal tragedy. Mac's commitments to his family mirrored his sense of fiduciary duty in public life. His enormous political successes were answers to how he dealt with threats to his own life in 1919, the loss of his first wife and three children in the 1930s, and a political loss in 1952 that no one saw coming.

Stuart writes the little-known story of how Arizona's culture and citizens shaped this energetic, determined, likable lawyer. The fame Mac created was not for himself but for those he served in Arizona and beyond. Mac's unparalleled political success was fermented during his early Arizona years, the bridge that brought him to his future as an approachable and likable elder statesman of Arizona politics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Chronology
  6. Prologue
  7. 1. Mac: Sooner Born and Sooner Bred, 1894
  8. 2. Mac Joins the U.S. Navy, 1917
  9. 3. Mac Moves to Phoenix, 1919
  10. 4. Mac: Law, Political Science, and Sociology, 1919
  11. 5. Mac and Florence, Arizona, 1924
  12. 6. Mac Becomes a Lawyer, 1921
  13. 7. Mac Runs for Pinal County Attorney, 1924
  14. 8. Mac and Tommy Fulbright, 1929
  15. 9. Mac and the Eva Dugan Case, 1930
  16. 10. Mac, Clare, and Their Children, 1925 to 1929
  17. 11. Mac and Henry Fountain Ashurst in the 1930s
  18. 12. Mac and the Winnie Ruth Judd Case, 1933
  19. 13. Mac Runs for Pinal County Judge Twice, 1930 and 1934
  20. 14. Mac and Edna, 1939
  21. 15. Mac and Henry Fountain Ashurst, 1940
  22. 16. Mac’s Primary Campaign Against Henry Fountain Ashurst, 1940
  23. 17. Mac’s Retail Politics, 1940
  24. 18. Mac’s General Election Campaign for the U.S. Senate, 1940
  25. 19. Mac Goes to Washington, DC, December 1940
  26. 20. Mac on the Cusp of the U.S. Senate, 1940
  27. 21. Mac as Senator, 1941 to 1952
  28. 22. Mac and Barry Goldwater, 1952
  29. 23. Mac, 1954 to 1964: Governor, Businessman, Lawyer, Farmer, Grandfather
  30. 24. Mac and the Arizona Supreme Court, 1964
  31. 25. Mac’s Grandchildren
  32. 26. Mac and KTVK, 1971
  33. 27. Mac’s Memorial at the State Capitol, 1998 and 2015
  34. Epilogue, 2017
  35. Finis Mac
  36. Acknowledgments
  37. Notes
  38. Bibliography
  39. Index