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World War II. Korean War. Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 [1] – May 29, 1998) was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party 's nominee for president in 1964 .
The 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater began when United States Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona elected to seek the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States to challenge incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Oct 20, 2020 · When the far-right Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater ran for the American presidency in 1964, he never even pretended to woo voters in the political center.
Apr 2, 2014 · Barry Goldwater was an American politician best known as a senator from Arizona and the Republican candidate for president in 1964.
May 25, 2024 · Barry Goldwater (born January 1, 1909, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.—died May 29, 1998, Paradise Valley, Arizona) was a U.S. senator from Arizona (1953–64, 1969–87) and the Republican presidential candidate in 1964. Goldwater dropped out of college and began working in his family’s Phoenix department store, Goldwater’s, of which ...
Oct 27, 2014 · Barry Goldwater has also been reevaluated by friend and foe alike, and it is undeniable the Republican changed his public image during a lengthy second political life. Goldwater returned to the...
May 28, 1998 · When Barry Goldwater died Friday in his Arizona home at the age of 89, the Republican party to which he had devoted his political career — the party that Goldwater had almost single-handedly ...
Barry Goldwater, Conservative and Individualist, Dies at 89 By ADAM CLYMER arry M. Goldwater, the recklessly candid Republican Presidential candidate who founded the modern conservative...
Born in Arizona in 1909 (three years before it became a state), Barry Goldwater loved exploring and photographing the rugged southwestern landscape. He considered a military career, but his father’s poor health forced him into the family business, Goldwater’s Department Store.
In 1960, with publication of The Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater became the leader of a national movement. Written with speechwriter Brent Bozell, the book was a statement of Goldwater's political creed.
