Paul Jones Fannin (29 January 1907-13 January 2002) was the Republican Governor of Arizona from 5 January 1959 to 4 January 1965 (succeeding Ernest McFarland and preceding Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr.) and a US Senator from 3 January 1965 to 3 January 1977 (succeeding Barry Goldwater and preceding Dennis DeConcini).
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Paul Jones Fannin was born in Ashland, Kentucky in 1907, and he was raised in Phoenix, Arizona after his family moved in order to restore his father's health. He and his brother cofounded a gas and petroleum equipment company, and he served as its president from 1945 until he and his brother sold the company in 1956. A conservative Republican, Fannin served as Governor from 1959 to 1965 and as US Senator from 1965 to 1977, increasing funding for public schooling by raising sales taxes, equalized property taxes, established the state's first medical school, and promoted tourism and trade across the Arizona-New Mexico border. As Senator, he voted in favor of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, against the Civil Rights Act of 1968, against the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment, against new limits on strip-mining and federal land regulations, and against the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the US Supreme Court. He retired in 1976 and died in 2002.