PoliticalGraveyard.com

Labor Leader Politicians in Arizona

Iorwith Wilbur Abel (1908-1987) — also known as I. W. Abel — of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa.; Sun City, Maricopa County, Ariz. Born in Magnolia, Stark County, Ohio, August 11, 1908. Democrat. President, United Steelworkers, 1965-77; vice-president, AFL-CIO; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1968, 1972. Died, of cancer, in Malvern, Carroll County, Ohio, August 10, 1987 (age 78 years, 364 days). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery, Magnolia, Ohio; cenotaph at Sunland Memorial Park, Sun City, Ariz.   Relatives: Son of John Franklin Abel and Mary Annie (Jones) Abel.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) — also known as César Estrada Chávez — of Delano, Kern County, Calif. Born in Yuma, Yuma County, Ariz., March 31, 1927. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; farm worker; co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which became the United Farm Workers; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1968. Catholic. Mexican ancestry. Awarded posthumously the Medal of Freedom, in 1994. Died in San Luis, Yuma County, Ariz., April 23, 1993 (age 66 years, 23 days). Interment at Cesar Chavez National Monument, Keene, Calif.   Relatives: Married, October 22, 1948, to Helen Fabela.   Cross-reference: Paul Schrade   See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Joseph Edward Karth (1922-2005) — also known as Joseph E. Karth — of St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn. Born in New Brighton, Ramsey County, Minn., August 26, 1922. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; international representative, Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers union; member of Minnesota state house of representatives District 41, 1951-58; U.S. Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1959-77; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1960, 1964. Presbyterian. Member, Veterans of Foreign Wars; American Legion. Died May 29, 2005 (age 82 years, 276 days). Interment at Green Acres Cemetery, Scottsdale, Ariz.   Relatives: Married to Charlotte Nordgren.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial — Minnesota Legislator record   William C. Marshall (1921-2000) — also known as William Marshall; Bill Marshall — of Taylor, Wayne County, Mich.; Delta Township, Eaton County, Mich. Born in Tunica, Tunica County, Miss., 1921. Democrat. Bus driver; president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1303 for ten years; exective vice-president, secretary-treasurer, and then president Michigan AFL-CIO, 1971-83; delegate to Michigan state constitutional convention from 21st Senatorial District, 1961-62; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980; member of Democratic National Committee from Michigan, 1973-81. Episcopalian. Died, of heart failure, in Gilbert, Maricopa County, Ariz., August 22, 2000 (age about 79 years). Burial location unknown.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.
	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/labor.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.