Fife Symington

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John Fife Symington III (born August 12, 1945) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 19th governor of Arizona from 1991 until his resignation in 1997 following convictions on charges of extortion and bank fraud, which were later overturned. A member of the Republican Party, Symington served in the United States Air Force and was stationed at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Arizona prior to entering politics. Linked to the Symington family, He is the son of J. Fife Symington Jr., the United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago during the Nixon administration, the cousin of Stuart Symington, a United States Senator from Missouri, and the younger brother of Martha Frick Symington Sanger, an author. A native of New York City, Symington attended the Gilman School in Baltimore; he subsequently graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Dutch art history. Symington comes from a political family: his father, J. Fife Symington Jr., served as Ambassador to Trinidad...

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