Evan Mecham and federal building bomber Timothy McVeigh. It continues through the tumultuous years of Joe Arpaio's immigration crackdowns and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attacks, for which Arizona's ...

PHOENIX — Evan Mecham, the only Arizona governor to be impeached, tried and ejected from office, died late Thursday at the Arizona State Veteran Home after a lengthy illness. The 83-year-old ...

Arizona was not the last state to create an ... the holdouts because of the resistance of controversial former Gov. Evan Mecham. On Jan. 12, 1987, Mecham rescinded a 1986 executive order by ...

Arizona – which comes with its own particular ... Talk to us in the comments section.) Evan Mecham, March 19, 1987: Angered by a column written by Phoenix Gazette columnist John Kolbe, Mecham ...

Evan Mecham took office in January 1987 ... to voter backlash over news the NFL would move the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona if the state rejected MLK Day. The NFL moved the Super Bowl to Pasadena ...

Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a public vote to do so. In 1987, Gov. Evan Mecham fulfilled a promise to ...

I'd never had a white person talk to me like that' The King holiday's approval in Arizona followed a chapter in state history that included racist comments by former Gov. Evan Mecham, who opposed ...

Goldwater also tried to finesse the support of the fringe John Birch Society. Former Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham scarcely hid his interest in the group, among other outlier views. Today, Arizona has ...

"High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Term and Trials of Former Governor Evan Mecham" If you think Arizona politics are wild now, then see what it was like in the 1980s with Ronald Watkins' history ...