John Waddy Buchanan

Legislative Resolution

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Biographical Information

The following is from Jo Conners' Who's Who in Arizona (Tucson, AZ:  Jo Conners, 1913), p. 734:

John W. Buchanan, of Pima County, is a native of Mississippi, having been born on a farm near Brandon, in that State.  He was educated in the public schools and at the completion of his education took a position as salesman in a dry goods store.  Preferring an outdoor life, he took up carpentry, and eventually drifted into railroad work.  He has been in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for the past eight years, most of which has been in their accounting department.  He was in the office of the car accountant in Houston, Texas, two years prior to his coming to Arizona in 1905, was then in the auditor's office of the Arizona Eastern and Southern Pacific de Mexico until promoted to the position of car service agent of these lines.  Mr. Buchanan is a Democrat both by heredity and from conviction, and although he has been actively interested in political affairs since he has been entitled to vote, he had no inclination toward political until induced by his friends to be candidate for representative from Pima County in the first State Legislature, when he was the only elected to the lower house on that ticked in the county.  In the special session of the Legislature he served as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and member of the Committees on Public Lands, Constitutional Amendments, and Public Health and Statistics.  Mr. Buchanan has many friends throughout the State, especially in Tucson, where he makes his home.  He is a member of the Elks, and Woodmen of the World.

The following is from the Legislative death resolution:

Whereas, John W. Buchanan died at El Paso, Texas, July 13, 1941, as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident; and

Whereas, during his long residence in Pima county, John W. Buchanan was an active, public spirited and highly valued citizen; and

Whereas, the deceased represented his county in the House of Representatives of the First and Second State Legislatures, and in the Senate of the Third Legislature, and afterward was chosen as County Treasurer of Pima county, in all of which capacities he served faithfully and well….

Employment

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Sources

Birth:  POB:  Jo Conners.  Who's Who in Arizona (Tucson, AZ:  Jo Conners, 1913), p. 734, DOB:  Ancestry Jackson, North Carolina Family tree for:  John Waddy Buchanan, Birth:  17 Dec 1869 - Rankin, MS (Mississippi), Death:  13 Jul 1941 - El Paso, TX (Texas), Parents:  Samuel Andrew Buchanan, Laura Anna Thompson; Alternate POB based on August 17, 1870 federal census of Sylvania Post Office, Township 2 Range 9 East, Smith Co., Mississippi which lists:  John W Buchman [Buchanan in record] born Dec 1869 in Mississippi with his parents Samuel A Buchman 23 farmer AL and Laura Buchman 19 MS, by 1880, the family was noted in the neighboring county in Cato, Rankin Co., Mississippi, possibly the farm near Brandon was where he remembered growing up but he had actually been born in Smith County, Mississippi or perhaps the farm was near the county line and Brandon was the nearest town of note; Death: Texas Death Index, Legislative death resolution; Occupation(s): 1910, 1920 and 1930 AZ census records, 1913 AZ Who’s Who and Legislative death resolution