Frank Guttierez Robles

Legislative Resolution

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Biographical Information

The Pima Co. Board of Supervisors declared Rep. Conrad Carreon's seat vacated due to a change in residence before the first special session started September 23, 1940 and he was replaced by Frank G. Robles as Representative for Pima District 1 who took the oath of office September 23, 1940 (Journal of the House of Representatives, 14th Legislature, 1st Special Session, 1940, pp. 11-12)

Rep. Frank G. Robles was expelled "for disorderly behavior" October 1, 1948 and he was replaced by Antonio Rios, Jr. as Representative for Pima District 2  (Journal of the House of Representatives, 18th Legislature, 7th Special Session, 1948, pp. 109, 115)  The following is from the Legislative death resolution:

The Honorable Frank G. Robles, a native of Arizona and a member of the Arizona House of Representatives continuously, except for two terms, from 1940 through 1958, passed away on February 19, 1973, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of sixty-one.

Mr. Robles was born in Tucson on December 21, 1911, was graduated from Tucson High School and attended the University of Arizona.

He was appointed to the House of Representatives for the Fourteenth Legislature, First Special Session, in September, 1940, to succeed Representative C. J. Carreon.  He was elected to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first and Twenty-third Legislatures, serving on the following House standing committees:  Accounting, Business Methods, Institutional Reorganization, County and Municipal Affairs, Child Welfare, Education, Suffrage and Election, Livestock, Public Health, Reconstruction and Unemployment, Aeronautics, Health, Welfare and Correction, Judiciary and Agriculture and Irrigation.  He was chairman of County and Municipal Affairs Committee in the Twentieth Legislature.

After graduation from high school he sold advertising for Tucson newspapers and engaged in promotion of theatrical enterprises until going into the gasoline service station business in 1939.  He attended law school, for a short period, at the University of Arizona.

After service in the Arizona Legislature he was an area worker for the Safford Neighborhood Council, Tucson Committee on Economic Opportunity, before moving to California in 1965.

Employment

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Sources

Birth: AZ Leg Bio sheet; Death: CA death index: Frank G. Robles