Henry Fountain Ashurst(1874-1962)

Henry F. Ashurst served as a Democrat in the United States Senate from 1912 when Arizona was admitted to the union as the 48th State. He was denied renomination by his party in 1940. He lived in Washington, DC until his death in 1962 at the age of 88.

He was one of two former United States Senators to have cameo roles in Otto Preminger's Advise and Consent, the other was Guy M. Gillette of Iowa.