Benjamin Baker Moeur

Benjamin Baker Moeur (1869 to 1937) was an American physician who became the fourth governor of Arizona. Born in Decherd, Tennessee, he attended medical school in Little Rock, Arkansas, graduated in 1896 and moved to Tempe, Arizona, where he started a medical practice. He represented Maricopa County at the Arizona constitutional convention in 1910 and served on the Tempe school board and as secretary of the board of education of the state teachers college. He was governor for two terms from 1933 to 1937, during which progressive reforms in working conditions and social security were carried out, and he died in Tempe in 1937, 71 days after leaving office.