HISTORY OF ARIZONA/biographical/volume 3/illustrated. Born at Burlington, Vermont, July 28, 1891 to M.E. and Mary (McGrath) Collins. One of eight children. In 1898 her family moved the Phoenix, Arizona. In 1920 was elected deputy county treasurer of Coconino County. Later became county treasurer.
Anastasia Collins Frohmiller (1891–1971), known as Ana, was a leading female politician in Arizona

Arizona

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 from the 1930s through the 1950s.

She became the first woman to serve as State Auditor, to which she was elected in 1926.

Frohmiller served until 1950 when she ran an unsuccessful campaign for Governor against Howard Pyle

John Howard Pyle

John Howard Pyle was the ninth Governor of the U.S. state of Arizona, serving from 1951 to 1955. He was a Republican...

. Arizona Senator

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 and Republican

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 Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater

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 wrote in his memoir With No Apologies that Frohmiller was 'an attractive lady... who had earned quite a following as a result of her long and excellent service as state auditor'. He also observed that the voters of Arizona weren't ready for a woman governor in 1950 and may have been right. Frohmiller lost the election to Pyle, who became the first Republican Governor of Arizona since John Calhoun Phillips

John Calhoun Phillips

John Calhoun Phillips was the third Governor of the state of Arizona. He served between 1929-1931.Born in 1870 in Vermont, Illinois, calling himself the "ugliest man in Arizona", Phillips was a construction worker in his early life and helped to build the state capitol building that he was later...

 in 1928, despite the fact that at the time of her nomination she seemed to be the front-runner.

Frohmiller retired to Prescott

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, Yavapai County, Arizona

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-2010:Whereas according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau:*89.3% White*0.6% Black*1.7% Native American*0.8% Asian*0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander*2.5% Two or more races*5.0% Other races*13.6% Hispanic or Latino -2000:...

, and died in 1971.