ERNEST W. MCFARLAND
(Ernest William McFarland)
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Reacting to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy who accused without any evidence 26 state department employees of "pro-communist" leanings, McFarland, the Majority Leader, took the Senate floor:
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Ernest William "Mac" McFarland was an American politician, jurist and, with Warren Atherton, one of the "Fathers of the G.I. Bill." He is the only Arizonan to serve in the highest office in all three branches of Arizona government, two at the state level, one at the federal level. He was a Democratic Senator from Arizona from 1941 to 1953 (Majority Leader from 1951 to 1953) before he was the tenth governor of Arizona from 1955 to 1959. Finally, McFarland sat as Chief Justice on the Arizona Supreme Court in 1968.
