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Mar 6, 2024 · Barry Goldwater (born January 1, 1909, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.—died May 29, 1998, Paradise Valley, Arizona) was a U.S. senator from Arizona (1953–64, 1969–87) and the Republican presidential candidate in 1964. Goldwater dropped out of college and began working in his family’s Phoenix department store, Goldwater’s, of which he was ...
As senator, Goldwater advocated a limited federal government while championing a stronger national defense. His widely read 1960 book, The Conscience of a Conservative, brought the Arizona senator to national attention as he became a founder of the modern conservative movement.
As senator, Goldwater proposed a new—some said radical—political agenda. "He preached the cause of modern conservatism," wrote one biographer, which emphasized “individualism, the sanctity of private property… anticommunism, and the dangers of centralized power.”
May 29, 1998 · PHOENIX, Ariz. (AllPolitics, May 29) -- Republican conservative patriarch Barry Goldwater, a former Arizona senator and presidential candidate, died Friday at age 89.
May 30, 1998 · Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona, the recklessly candid Republican Presidential candidate who founded the modern conservative political movement in America, died yesterday at his home in Paradise...
By ADAM CLYMER. arry M. Goldwater, the recklessly candid Republican Presidential candidate who founded the modern conservative political movement in America, died on Friday in Paradise Valley, Ariz. He was 89. Credit:The Associated Press.
Ham Operator. Photographer. Politician. Barry M. Goldwater was born in Phoenix, Arizona January 1, 1909. He attended grade school in Phoenix and at age 13, succeeded in setting up the first commercial radio transmitter in Arizona, KFDA – the 36th station licensed in the U.S.
