Frank O. Mattox

Mattox worked on the Santa Fe Railroad as a conductor for over 20 years. In 1924 he resigned from the railroad and took a full-time position managing the Hall Lumber Company in Winslow, Arizona. Mattox had been a vice-president of the company for two years prior to accepting the full-time job.[3] Mattox was married, but divorced his wife, Martha A. Mattox, on the grounds of desertion in 1916.[4]

In 1911 he ran for the State House of Representatives for the seat from Navajo County. He defeated Benjamin Downs for the Democrat nomination, and then defeated A. H. Hansen in the general election in December.[5][6] In May 1912, during the third special session of the legislature, Mattox introduced a resolution asking that Arizona ratify the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. If it had passed quickly, Arizona would have been the first state to ratify.[7] However, Massachusetts ratified the amendment on May 22, Arizona was the second state, on June 3.[8] He did not run for re-election for the House in 1914, but ran for the State Senate in 1916. He was the only candidate on the Democrat's side.[9] He narrowly defeated Republican E. T. Fanning in the general election, 839 to 810.[10] He did not run for re-election in 1918.[11]