Republican Coles Bashford was a disgraced former governor of Wisconsin who had arrived in the newly formed Arizona Territory in 1863.. He had served as the first territorial attorney-general and then president of the territorial legislature before he was elected as the territory's non-voting delegate to the Fortieth Congress. He served until early 1869 when President Grant appointed him Arizona Territory's Secretary of State. (By John Osborne)
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"Territories, United States," The American Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1866 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873), 733.
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