Check out these notable achievers who went to the UA.
Democrat Ron Barber addresses a forum question in the final Congressional District 2 debate against Republican Martha McSally (not pictured) on Oct. 23, 2012.
Mike Christy / Arizona Daily StarGraduated from UA in: 1967
Why he's famous: Politics — U.S. House of Representatives
Notable accomplishment: Barber was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona.
Betsey Bayless, Feb. 14, 2002.
Arizona Daily StarGraduated from UA in: 1966
Why she's famous: Politics — Secretary of State
Notable accomplishment: Bayless was the Secretary of State of Arizona from late 1997-early 2003.
Terry Bracy.
Submitted photoGraduated from UA in: 1966
Why he's famous: Politics
Notable accomplishment: Bracy worked as an aide to Congressman Morris K. Udall between 1966-76. He also served under four U.S. presidents.
FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2008, file photo, former Surgeon General Richard Carmona speaks during a news conference in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, file)
Harry CabluckGraduated from UA in: 1998 — Master's degree in public health
Why he's famous: Politics — U.S. Surgeon General
Notable accomplishment: Carmona served as the 17th Surgeon General of the U.S. from 2002-06.
Judge Raul H. Castro, Sept. 5, 1964
Gaines-Manley PhotographsGraduated from UA in: 1949
Why he's famous: Politics — U.S. Ambassador; Governor of Arizona
Notable accomplishment: Castro served as the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina from 1977-80. He also served as the 14th Governor of Arizona from 1975-77.
Undated file photo of Richard Harvey Chambers.
Leslie Wells / Arizona Daily Star file photoGraduated from UA in: 1929
Why he's famous: Politics — U.S. Federal Judge
Notable accomplishment: Chambers served as federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1959-76, which is the longest term served by a federal judge in the history of the Ninth Circuit.
Regent Dennis DeConcini at an Arizona Board of Regents meeting at the University of Arizona Dec. 3, 2009 in Tucson, Ariz.
James Gregg / Arizona Daily StarGraduated from UA in: 1959
Why he's famous: Politics — U.S. Senate
Notable accomplishment: DeConcini served as a U.S. Senator from Arizona between 1977-95.
From left: NRG Energy CEO David Crane, United States Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman, JX Nippon president and CEO Shunsaku Miyake, Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst and CEO of Hilcorp Jeff Hildebrand seen at the Petra Nova Groundbreaking Event at the W.A. Parish power plant on Sept. 5, 2014 in rural Fort Bend County, TX. (Photo by Eric Kayne/Invision for NRG/AP Images)
Eric KayneGraduated from UA in: 1967
Why he's famous: Politics — Lieutenant Governor of Texas
Notable accomplishment: Dewhurst has been the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Texas since 2003.
Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole announces his economic plan during a speech in Chicago Aug. 5, 1996. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
Stephan SavoiaBegan at UA in: 1949
Why he's famous: Politics — U.S. Senate
Notable accomplishment: Dole represented Kansas in the U.S. Senate from 1969-96 and ran for president in 1996, losing to incumbent President Bill Clinton.
A 1964 election sent Gov. Paul Fannin to the United States Senate. Photo taken 1964.
Tucson CitizenBegan at UA in: 1925
Why he's famous: Politics — U.S. Senate; Governor
Notable accomplishment: Fannin served as the 11th Governor of Arizona from 1959-65. He then served as a U.S. Senator from Arizona between 1965-77.
Undated file photo of Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr.
Arizona Daily Star file photoGraduated from UA in: 1949 — Law degree
Why he's famous: Politics — Governor
Notable accomplishment: Goddard Jr. was the 12th Governor of Arizona. He served from 1965-67.
Citizen Photo — Oct. 17, 1951, Barry Goldwater.
Tucson CitizenHonorary UA alumnus in: 1969
Why he's famous: Politics — Senator
Notable accomplishment: Goldwater served as a five-term U.S. Senator from Arizona between 1953-65 and then again from 1969-87. He also ran for president as the Republican nominee in the 1964 election.
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva.
Submitted photoGraduated from UA in: 1971
Why he's famous: Politics — congress
Notable accomplishment: Grijalva has served as the U.S. representative of Arizona's 3rd congressional district since 2003.
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 24, 2010, to vote on the Senate Jobs Bill. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
Harry HamburgGraduated from UA in: 1964
Why he's famous: Politics — U.S. Senate
Notable accomplishment: Kyl served as a U.S. Senator from Arizona between 1995-2013.
Lorna Lockwood pictured in the 1924 University of Arizona yearbook. Photo courtesy of University of Arizona Yearbooks, University of Arizona Special Collections.
Photo courtesy of University of Arizona Yearbooks, University of Arizona Special CollectionsGraduated from UA in: 1923
Why she's famous: Politics — Supreme Court
Notable accomplishment: Lockwood was the first woman to become a chief justice of a state Supreme Court. She served in Arizona.
Rep. John B. Shadegg (R-AZ/3d). (MCT)
Handout photoGraduated from UA in: 1972
Why he's famous: Politics — U.S. Representative
Notable accomplishment: Shadegg was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona's 3rd congressional district from 1995-2011.
This is a 1952 file photo of longtime Arizona Congressman Morris K. "Mo" Udall.
Handout photoGraduated from UA in: 1949
Why he's famous: Politics — House of Representatives
Notable accomplishment: Udall was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 30 years, 1961-91.
Stewart L. Udall, former secretary of the Interior under presidents Kennedy and Johnson, photographed at the Arizona Inn May 17, 2000. Udall, 80, was in town to address a conference about "alternative dispute resolution and natural resources, sponsored by the Morris K. Udall Foundation.
Chris RichardsGraduated from UA in: 1948
Why he's famous: Politics — U.S. House of Representatives
Notable accomplishment: Udall was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona. He then became the 37th U.S. Secretary of the Interior, under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
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