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Sharlot M. Hall, President Coolidge and officials, taken during Sharlot's visit to Washington DC to deliver Arizona's electoral votes for Coolidge.  Senator Ralph Cameron is fourth from left.

SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL (b. October 27, 1870, d. April 9, 1943) moved from Lincoln County, Kansas to Arizona in 1882. She moved twelve miles southeast of Prescott, Arizona at Lynx Creek, with her father, James Knox Hall, her mother, Adeline Susannah Hall, and her brother, Edward "Ted" V. Hall.

Sharlot became a poet, a writer, a journalist, an associate editor of "Out West" magazine, and served as Arizona's Territorial Historian from 1909-1912. In addition, she became the first steward and curator of the Arizona Governor's Mansion in Prescott, which she eventually turned into a Museum beginning in 1928. Today, she is the namesake of the Sharlot Hall Museum.

RALPH HENRY CAMERON (b. October 21, 1863 - d. February 12, 1953) was an early Arizona politician, lawman, and entrepreneur in Coconino County, and one of the early settlers and developers on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.  He was the last Territorial Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives before Arizona statehood, serving 1908-1912.  He served one term as U.S. Senator from Arizona, 1921-1927.  He has been much reviled in later years for his efforts and lawsuits to keep the Grand Canyon from becoming a National Park.