Hugo Farmer

Farmer was born in 1878.[2] Farmer had a ranch outside of Yuma, Arizona.[3] In the early 1900s Farmer worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad, until 1906 when he obtained a job as a guard at Yuma Territorial Prison, a position he held for 3 years, until September 1909, when the prison was closed and all prisoners were transferred to Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence.[4][5]

In 1914, he was elected as the clerk of the Superior Court, and continued in that position through 1919, after being re-elected in 1918.[6][7] He then served as United States Commissioner at Yuma from 1920 to 1924.[8] In September 1928, Farmer defeated incumbent Nellie T. Bush in the Democrat primary for the Arizona State Senate, and went on to win the November general election.[9][10] He was re-elected in 1930 and 1932.[11][12] He did not run for re-election in 1934. In 1944 incumbent H. H. Baker did not run for re-election to the State Senate. Farmer ran in his place, and was elected again to the Senate.[13][14] He ran unopposed in both the primary and general election in 1946.[15][16] He did not run for re-election in 1948.[17] Farmer was also a member of the Colorado River Commission.[18] Farmer died on June 28, 1957, in the Arizona Pioneers Home in Prescott, Arizona.[2]