Meanwhile, William Claude Jones, who presided over the 1st Arizona
Territorial Legislative Assembly in 1864, was described by a biographer as
a “pursuer of nubile females” and had throughout his life married a
12-year-old, a 15-year-old and a 14-year-old, according to a 1990 biography
in the Journal of Arizona History.
Arizona's law banning nearly all abortion was written nearly 50 years
before it became a state, when under 7000 ...