Alexander Oswald Brodie (13 November 1849-10 May 1918) was the Republican Governor of the Arizona Territory from 1 June 1902 to 14 February 1905, succeeding Oakes Murphy and preceding Joseph Henry Kibbey.
Biography[]
Alexander Oswald Brodie was born in Edwards, New York in 1849, a descendant of King Robert III of Scotland. He joined the US Army cavalry in 1870 as a lieutenant, and he served in George Crook's campaign against the Apache in Arizona in 1871. He also fought against the Nez Perce in Washington in 1874, and he left the military in 1877. Brodie worked as a cattleman in Kansas and as a miner in the Dakota Territory before rejoining the cavalry, and he was discharged in 1884 and settled Prescott, Arizona, where he became an engineer. He served as commander of the Arizona Territorial National Guard from 1891 to 1892, as as Yavapai County recorder from 1893 to 1895, as a US Army lieutenant-colonel during the Spanish-American War (being wounded at the Battle of Las Guasimas and taking command of the Rough Riders from Theodore Roosevelt), and served as Governor of the Arizona Territory from 1902 to 1905. He established an eight-hour day for mine workers, outlawed the practice of paying miners in company scrip redeemable only at the company store, supported women's suffrage, expanded the size of the Arizona Rangers from 14 to 26 men, and selected the site for the Roosevelt Dam. He returned to the Army after leaving office in 1905, and he was deployed to the Philippines, served as adjutant general of the Department of the Dakotas from 1907 to 1911, and then as adjutant general of the Department of California from 1911 to 1913. He moved to Haddonfield, New Jersey and died in 1918.