[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 23, 2002)]
[House]
[Pages H27-H28]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        REMEMBERING PAUL FANNIN

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Hayworth) is recognized for 5 minutes.

[[Page H28]]

  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I rise this afternoon to pay tribute to a 
great American and great Arizonan. It is my sad duty, Mr. Speaker, to 
report to the House of Representatives that former United States 
Senator and former Arizona Governor Paul Fannin passed away during our 
district work period and holiday recess. We laid him to rest in Arizona 
last week.
  Mr. Speaker, Paul Fannin, a native of Arizona, a success in business, 
chose to move from the arena of business to elected office in the year 
of my birth, 1958. Sworn in as Governor in 1959, he served 3 terms; and 
then upon ascension of our favorite son, Barry M. Goldwater, to the 
nomination of his party for President of the United States, Paul Fannin 
ran and was elected to the United States Senate.
  In our history of Arizona only two have served our State both as 
Governor and United States Senator. Paul Fannin's place in history is 
assured. And yet when people think of Arizona and think of Goldwater 
and Udall and John Rhodes, they would be wise to add the name of Paul 
Fannin to the pantheon of political giants from our State.

                              {time}  1600

  It was Paul Fannin in the late 1950s, before it was politically 
correct to understand the role of international cooperation and cross 
border cooperation and to reach out to the Mexican State of Sonora for 
the Sonora Arizona conference, which is now more than 40 years old, not 
in a diminution of sovereignty for either State or their respective 
Nations, but for the Nation, that people can understand and coexist and 
prosper through trade and cooperation. And, indeed, during his time as 
governor, that may remain as Paul Fannin's greatest contribution to the 
State of Arizona.
  As United States Senator, coming here to Washington, it was the 
tenacity of Paul Fannin, working with, at that time, the Senate 
President pro tempore Carl Hayden and Barry Goldwater and John Rhodes 
and Mo Udall to bring the Central Arizona Project from the drawing 
board to life, the reality that water is necessary to make the desert 
bloom would be there, for jobs and for quality of life. Paul Fannin 
worked tirelessly to see that that was done.
  Senator Fannin also worked tirelessly on behalf of the first 
Americans. So often the first Americans, our American Indians, become 
the forgotten Americans. Paul Fannin worked to maintain their 
sovereignty, to maintain their treaty rights. In fact, Paul Fannin 
worked in a bipartisan way for the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy of 
New York. Indeed, stories recount how Senator Kennedy would come in 
unannounced into the back of Paul Fannin's suite of offices and work on 
Native American issues.
  His is a living legacy for the State of Arizona and for this Nation; 
and though we say good-bye to him at age 94, we will not forget his 
contributions to our way of life, and encompassing all of that was Paul 
Fannin the person.
  As a private citizen, I had the privilege of being involved in Rotary 
International and being in the same club, Phoenix 100, as Paul Fannin. 
And upon our first meeting I said, sir, please help me with the 
protocol. I am confused. How should I properly address you? Should I 
call you Senator? Should I call you Governor? He answered, oh, JD, just 
call me Paul. In an endeavor where many of us have an excessive dose of 
self-esteem, where the people's business can often take a back seat to 
headlines and photo opportunities and press conferences, the living 
legacy of Paul Fannin is that of a humble public servant; and though we 
bid him farewell at age 94, his contributions to this country and to 
the State of Arizona will last forever.

                          ____________________