The legislation passed on January 13, 1862, and the territory was officially created by proclamation of President Jefferson Davis on February 14.
(September 7, 1851 – February 18, 1938) was a representative to the Arizona Territorial Legislature and the founder of the Udall political family.
He served as the sixth Governor of Arizona Territory and held a number of lesser government positions there and in Nevada.
He is the great-great-great grandson of Daniel Webster Jones, an influential early settler in Utah and the Arizona Territory.
Lorna Lockwood was born on March 24, 1903, in Douglas, Arizona Territory, to Daisy Maude Lincoln and Alfred Collins Lockwood.
In 1966, at the age of twenty-seven, he obtained one of his most memorable parts, as Billy Blue Cannon, the blond-haired, blue-eyed son of the ranch patriarch, John Cannon (Leif Erickson) on The High Chaparral, set in the Arizona Territory.
In 1958, Reason was cast as Black Jack in the episode "The Homesteaders" of the syndicated western series set in the Arizona Territory, Frontier Doctor, starring Rex Allen.
Starting back in 1902, 10 years prior to the Arizona Territory becoming the State of Arizona, the name "The Thomas Ranch" was registered by Edward E. Thomas, in Bisbee, Arizona, which was incorporated some months earlier in January 1902.
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Sloan (Nov 9, 1901 – Mar 22, 2002) was the daughter of Mary Brown and Richard Elihu Sloan, a lawyer and American jurist who served as Associate Justice on the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, a United States District Court judge and as the 17th and final Governor of Arizona Territory.
The Camp Grant massacre, on April 30, 1871, was an attack on Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches who surrendered to the United States Army at Camp Grant, Arizona, along the San Pedro River.
In 1862, he joined the Pauline Weaver party, who had struck gold in the Antelope Peak, and traveled into the interior of what was then the Arizona Territory.
Following his victory at the First Battle of Mesilla and the surrender of federal forces in the area, he proclaimed himself the military governor of Arizona Territory – a region encompassing the southern half of the modern states of New Mexico and Arizona.
Goodwin was elected to be Arizona Territory's delegate to the 39th United States Congress on September 6, 1865, defeating incumbent Charles D. Poston in the process.
Dr. Lewis Sumpter Owings (September 6, 1820-August 20, 1875) was a medical doctor and politician in the New Mexico and Arizona territories.
According to James H. McClintock, before leaving his home in Phoenix, Arizona, Robinson told an Associated Press correspondent that he intended to be gone for six months, at the end of which he would return with some stories about the natives.
The United States Court of Private Land Claims (1891–1904), was a United States court created to decide land claims guaranteed by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in the territories of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and in the states of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming.
During the summer, he followed his company passing through California to the Arizona Territory and stationed at Fort McDowell.
As a newly commissioned officer, Brodie was assigned to Camp Apache where he participated in General George Crook's campaign in Arizona Territory.
John J. Gosper (1843–1913), Nebraska Secretary of State (1873–1875) and Secretary of Arizona Territory (1875–1882).
Francis J. Heney (1859–1937), American lawyer who served as Attorney General of the Arizona Territory between 1893 and 1895
Hiram Sanford Stevens (1832–1893), Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona Territory (1875–9)
John N. Irwin (1847–1905), American politician, governor of Idaho Territory, 1883–1884, and Arizona Territory, 1890–1892
The log structure was built by Levi H. Manning, Surveyor General of the Arizona Territory and later mayor of Tucson, in 1905.
Oakes Murphy, Nathan Oakes Murphy (1849-1908), fourteenth Governor of Arizona Territory
Richard Cunningham McCormick (1832–1901), Governor of Arizona Territory, 1866–1869, and U.S. Congressman from New York, 1895–1897
Ed Schieffelin (1847–1897), an Indian scout and prospector who discovered silver in the Arizona Territory, which led to the founding of Tombstone, Arizona.
Frederick Augustus Tritle (1833–1906), American politician and Governor of Arizona Territory (1882–1885).
An early version of the Oklahoma Enabling Act also contained a clause for admitting Arizona Territory and New Mexico Territory as a single state, but that clause was removed in the final version.
Drum Barracks Civil War Museum – U.S. Army headquarters for Southern California and the Arizona territory during the Civil War.
Points of interest include the U.S. Army headquarters for Southern California and the Arizona territory during the Civil War.