Evan Mecham served 15 months as governor before being impeached and convicted, but the fallout from his time in office reverberated in the state’s politics for decades.

Evan Mecham served 15 months as governor before being impeached and convicted, but the fallout from his time in office reverberated in the state’s politics for decades.

It makes stops in the Barry Goldwater/John Birch Society era and revists the impact of notable figures such as impeached Gov. Evan Mecham and federal building bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Arizona gets its share of awkward news conferences, ... Evan Mecham, March 19, 1987: Angered by a column written by Phoenix Gazette columnist John Kolbe, Mecham declared him a "non-person." ...

Arizona didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, ... but it was perhaps the most well-known of the holdouts because of the resistance of controversial former Gov. Evan Mecham. ...

If you think Arizona politics are wild now, then see what it was like in the 1980s with Ronald Watkins' history of Evan Mecham's short but tumultuous governorship. " Driving While Brown: Sheriff ...

It makes stops in the Barry Goldwater/John Birch Society era and revists the impact of notable figures such as impeached Gov. Evan Mecham and federal building bomber Timothy McVeigh.

When Gov. Evan Mecham took office in January 1987, one of his first actions was to rescind Babbitt's MLK Day order, which he said hadn't been legally enacted. He urged lawmakers to refer the issue ...

A far-right governor is impeached, extremist sheriffs take root and the Arizona desert nurtures the Oklahoma City federal building bomber.