Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater was born on January 1, 1909 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA as Barry Morris Goldwater. He was married to Susan Shaffer Wechsler and Margaret Johnson Goldwater.

U.S. senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987). Lost 1964 presidential election to Lyndon B. Johnson.

During his 1964 presidential campaign, a television ad featuring a girl counting daisies, followed by a mushroom cloud, was broadcast. The commercial was designed to imply that he would start a nuclear war if he were elected president. Known as the "Daisy ad", the attack ad was viewed as a factor in his landslide defeat by incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson.

He served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II - he retired from the Air Force Reserve in 1969 with the rank of Major General.

In 1974, during the height of the Watergate scandal, he advised President Richard Nixon he should resign from office.

Inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1982.

Received the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Gold Medallion in 1983.

Retired from the U.S. Senate in 1986. John McCain held his former seat from 1987 until his death.

Inducted into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame in 1990.

Inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1991.

Inducted into the Arizona Outdoor Hall of Fame in 1998 (inaugural class).

Inducted into the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame in 2001 (inaugural class).

Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 235-237. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

In 2006, his nephew, Donald Goldwater, sought the Republican nomination for Arizona governor, only to lose the nomination to Len Munsil (who eventually lost the gubernatorial election to Democratic incumbent Governor Janet Napolitano).