Bill Text: AZ SCR1017 | 2015 | Fifty-second Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Jones Osborn; death resolution
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-02 - Introduced [SCR1017 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2015-SCR1017-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: Jones Osborn; death resolution |
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State of Arizona Senate Fifty-second Legislature First Regular Session 2015
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SCR 1017 |
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Introduced by Senator Pancrazi; Representative Otondo
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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
on the death of former Senator Jones Osborn.
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Former Senator Jones Osborn passed away on November 6, 2014 at the age of ninety-three.
Senator Osborn was born in southern Indiana on October 22, 1921. In 1935, his parents and F.F. McNaughton jointly purchased the two daily Yuma newspapers, prompting Senator Osborn and his parents to move to Yuma, Arizona. A diligent worker from an early age, he worked for "The Yuma Daily Sun" after his high school classes and on the weekends. Upon graduating from high school, Senator Osborn attended the University of Arizona, where he served as sports editor of the university yearbook and its newspaper.
While at the University of Arizona, Senator Osborn earned a commission in the United States Army as a second lieutenant. He volunteered for active duty shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. His regiment fought in New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines. He concluded his service with the rank of captain, having earned a Combat Infantry Badge and two Bronze Stars.
After retiring from military service, Senator Osborn returned to Yuma where he became editor of "The Yuma Daily Sun." Under his editorship, the newspaper campaigned successfully for major changes to local government, including bringing to a public vote an increase in county supervisors from three to five.
In 1971, Senator Osborn embarked upon his distinguished twenty-year legislative career when he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the Arizona Senate. During his tenure in the Legislature, Senator Osborn earned the respect and admiration of his peers on both sides of the political aisle. Among his many efforts, he created the Residential Users' Consumer Office (RUCO), which gave residential utility users an effective voice in rate‑setting, he authored the Adult Intensive Probation Program, which gave judges the option of sending first-time, nonviolent offenders to intensive probation instead of prison, he authored the "Sunset Law," which brings all state agencies, boards and commissions under the scrutiny of a periodic performance audit, and he created the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections.
Senator Osborn served on and was chairman in 1990 of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), a consortium of western states that facilitates resource sharing among higher education systems of the West. Upon leaving the Legislature, Senator Osborn was appointed by Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Stanley Feldman to the Arizona Judicial Commission, a non-salaried post he held for sixteen years.
In 2006, he was inducted into the Arizona Wildcat Hall of Fame in recognition of his achievements.
Dedicated to his family, Senator Osborn will be greatly missed by his wife, Brigida Medina Osborn, sons, Jones II and Duncan, daughters, Kathleen and Heather, stepson, James Conway, and six grandchildren.
Therefore
Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives concurring:
That the Members of the Legislature sincerely regret the passing of Senator Jones Osborn and extend their deepest sympathies to his family and friends.
