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Senate Years of Service: 1927-1969 Party: Democrat
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HAYDEN, Carl Trumbull, a Representative and a Senator from Arizona; born in Haydens Ferry (now
Tempe), Maricopa County, Ariz., October 2, 1877; attended the public schools; graduated from
the Normal School of Arizona at Tempe in 1896; attended Leland Stanford Junior University,
California 1896-1900; engaged in mercantile pursuits and in the flour-milling business at
Tempe 1900-1904; member, Tempe Town Council 1902-1904; treasurer of Maricopa County
1904-1906; sheriff of Maricopa County 1907-1912; upon the admission of Arizona as a State
into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress; reelected to the seven
succeeding Congresses and served from February 19, 1912, to March 3, 1927; did not seek
renomination, having become a candidate for United States Senator; during the First World War
was commissioned a major of Infantry in the United States Army; elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate in 1926 for the term commencing March 4, 1927; reelected in 1932, 1938,
1944, 1950, 1956, and again in 1962 for the term ending January 3, 1969; was not a candidate
in 1968 for reelection to the United States Senate; served as President pro tempore of the
Senate during the Eighty-fifth through the Ninetieth Congresses; chairman, Committee on
Printing (Seventy-third through Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Rules and
Administration (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Committee on
Printing (Eighty-first and Eighty-second, and Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth Congresses),
co-chairman, Joint Committee on Inaugural Arrangements (Eightieth and Eighty-second
Congresses), chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth
Congresses); his record for fifty-six consecutive years of service in the Congress, including an
unprecedented forty-two in the Senate, was unsurpassed at the time of his retirement; retired
and resided in Tempe, Ariz.; died in Mesa, Ariz., January 25, 1972; cremated; ashes interred in
family plot at Tempe Butte Cemetery, Tempe, Ariz.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; August, Jack L., Jr. Vision in the
Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest. Fort Worth: Texas
Christian University Press, 1998; Rice, Ross R. Carl Hayden: Builder of the American
West. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994;
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