Moeur, Benjamin Baker

Last name appears with various spellings (including possibly "Muller").
Born Dec 22, 1869 in Decherd, Tennessee; died March 16, 1937.
Two-term AZ governor: 1932-1937
See Brown, Lenard E. “Arizona’s State Governors”
Arizoniana, Spring 1962 3(1) p.4, 7 (illus.).
History of Arizona, 1930. Vol.3., pp. 222-223, 225.
Myers, John L. Arizona Governors, 1912-1990. Phoenix. Heritage Publishers. 1989.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: 9:223-225: appears as “D. B. Moore”; 10:252 “B. B. Muller/Mueller[?]” is probably also a reference to B. B. Moeur.
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 359.
See also: McClintock, James H. Arizona, Prehistoric, Aboriginal, Pioneer, Modern; the Nation's Youngest Commonwealth within a Land of Ancient Culture. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1916 (aka Arizona, the Youngest State), volume 3 (Biographical), page 822.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 3 (Arizona biography), pages 222, 223 [portrait], 225: “Mouer” [sic]

BLEDSOE N. Ariz Med. 1957 Feb;14(2):84-5; passim, contd. Governor Benjamin Baker Moeur.
RANDOLPH H. Ariz Med. 1957 Mar;14(3):147-9; concl. The history of medicine in Arizona; Governor Benjamin Baker Moeur.

Moeur’s father, Dr. J. B. Moeur, was a physician of Tennessee. Circa 1913, member of the American and the Arizona Medical Associations, the Maricopa Medical Society and the Southside Medical Association, being Chairman of the latter. Business interests: president of two of the largest corporations of the state, The Southside Electric Light & Gas Company and The Moeur-Pafford Company, a ranching and cattle raising corporation. Member of the Educational Board of the Tempe Normal School, etc. Source: Who's Who in Arizona. Volume I. 1913.

J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1910; LIV: 1314: A jury in Phoenix is said to have found Dr. Benjamin B. Moeur, Tempe, guilty of a misdemeanor in failing to report to the Maricopa county board of health, a case of smallpox in that city, and a fine of $20 was imposed. Dr. Henry A. Hughes, superintendent of the county board of health, was the complaining witness in the case. The defendant's attorney gave notice of his intention to appeal to the district court.
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1912; LVIII: 1693: New Officers.--SouthSide Medical Society of Tempe and Mesa: president, Dr. B. B. Moeur, Tempe; secretary-treasurer, Dr. R. F. Palmer, Mesa.
Southwestern Medicine, May 1926; 10 (5): 245: Dr. B.B. Moeur, of Tempe, recently suffered a painful, though not serious accident. In order to avoid collision with some children purposely ditched his car, bruising his chest against the steering wheel.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1936; 106: 1397: The Arizona State Medical Association will convene in annual session in Nogales, April 23-25, with headquarters at the Hotel Montezuma, under the presidency of Dr. Charles R. K. Swetnam, Prescott. ... The governor, Dr. Benjamin B. Moeur, will address the Saturday morning session on "The State, the Industrial Commission and the Medical Profession."
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1937; 108: 1194: Benjamin Baker Moeur, Tempe, Ariz.; Arkansas Industrial University Medical Department, 1896; governor of Arizona, 1933-1937; member of the Constitutional Convention of Arizona in 1910; president of the Arizona State Board of Health, 1933-1937; for twelve years secretary of the board of education of the Arizona State Teachers College ; aged 67 ; died, March 16, of coronary occlusion.