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Non Puerto Rican bios.





Biographies







  • Henry Garfias - A Hispanic who became the first marshal of Phoenix, Arizona. He was also a gunfighter who became the highest elected Mexican American official in the Valley during the 19th century.





  • Paul W. Litchfield - American Inventor, Industrialist, Chairman of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and the founder of the town of Litchfield Park, Arizona.



  • Joe Mayer - Founder of the town of Mayer, Arizona



  • Wing Foon Ong - The first Chinese-American to be elected to The Arizona House of Representatives. In 1966, Ong become the first Chinese-American to win a seat in the Arizona State Senate.


  • Adam Perez Diaz - The first Hispanic elected to the Phoenix City Council and also the first Hispanic to serve as Phoenix's Vice-Mayor.





  • Michael Sullivan - An American stonemason who built various structures in Casa Grande, Arizona out of fieldstone and which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.






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