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Senate Years of Service: 1921-1927 Party: Republican
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CAMERON, Ralph Henry, a Delegate and a Senator from Arizona; born in Southport, Lincoln County, Maine,
October 21, 1863; attended the common schools; emigrated to the West and became interested in
mining and stock raising; locator and builder of the Bright Angel trail into the Grand Canyon of the
Colorado River in Arizona; moved to the Territory of Arizona in 1883; sheriff of Coconino County in
1891 and 1894-1898; member of the board of supervisors of Coconino County 1905-1907 and
served as chairman; elected as a Republican Delegate to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses
and served from March 4, 1909, to February 18, 1912, when Arizona was admitted as a State into
the Union; resumed mining pursuits at Phoenix, Ariz.; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate in 1920 and served from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1927; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1926 and for election in 1928; engaged in mica mining in North Carolina and Georgia and
in gold mining in California; resided in Los Angeles, Calif., and Yuma, Ariz., until his death in
Washington, D.C., while on a business trip, February 12, 1953; interment in the American Legion
Cemetery, Grand Canyon, Ariz.
BibliographyLamb, Blaine. A Many Checkered Toga: Arizona
Senator Ralph H. Cameron, 1921-1927. Arizona and the West 19 (Spring 1977):
47-64; Strong, Douglas H. The Man Who Owned Grand Canyon. American West
6 (September 1969): 33-40.
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