Dorothy Wirtz Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-117

Scope and Content Note

The Dorothy Wirtz Papers contain correspondence, notes, and printed matter documenting Wirtz's career in public service in Arizona. Of particular interest is printed campaign matter discussing public transportation in central Arizona (Box 2, Folder 3); materials showing public education and a legislative referendum on insurance reform (Folder 6); items documenting a proposed measure to control abortion (Folder 7); and printed matter addressing legislative referenda intended to govern insurance, abortion, and the Martin Luther King Day state holiday (Folder 8).

Dates

Creation: 1954-1992

Creator

Wirtz, Dorothy (Dorothy Marie), 1915- (Person)

Language of Materials

Material in English

Access Restrictions

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Copyright

Arizona State University does not own the copyright to this collection. We recognize that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.

Biographical Note

Dorothy Marie Wirtz was born to John and Alma (Schard) Wirtz in Keokuk, Iowa on March 9, 1915. She moved to Arizona in 1950, where she served as a member of the Arizona Tax Commission (1952-1958), as Deputy Treasurer of Arizona (1959-), as a member of the Governor's Committee on Mental Health, as Second Vice President and Membership Chairman of the Arizona Democratic League of Women Voters, as Recording Secretary of the Phoenix Democratic Women's Society, as Political Education Committee Chairman of the Arizona Federation of Democratic Women's Societies, and as Recording Secretary and Legislative Committee Chairman of the Capitol Chapter of Business and Professional Women. She also served as an official on many election boards, attended numerous political caucuses and conventions, and taught French at the University of Wisconsin, at the University of Minnesota, and at Arizona State University (1959-1973).