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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Albinus A. Worsley |
| Address |
Tucson, Arizona , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
June 24, 1869 |
| Died |
January 05, 1927
(57 years) |
| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
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| Info | Hon. Albinus A. Worsley, statesman, lawyer, orator, is one of the most distinguished residents of Arizona. He has the power to sway audiences by the gift of his eloquence and the force of his argument, for his presentation of any question strikes home in a manner
that leaves an indelible impression and oft times carries conviction to the minds of his hearer. He is perhaps best and most widely known in connection with the efforts to better conditions of the workingmen and his strong friendship for the great industrial army has made him known as the "champion of labor and labor legislation." It is his great sense
of right and justice that has prompted his efforts in this connection, for he believes that the rights of labor should go to him who toils.
Senator Worsley has been a resident of Tucson since 1904 and in the intervening period has left indelibly the impress of his individuality upon the history of the state. He was
born in Sylvania. Racine county. Wisconsin. June 24, 1869, and there acquired his early education as a public-school pupil while spending his youthful days in the home of his parents. Thomas (and Maria (Shields) Worsley. The father, a direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell, came to the new world from Lancashire. England, at the age of sixteen and
took up the occupation of farming in Wisconsin in pioneer times. His wife was brought to America when a little maiden of seven years from O/ueen county, Ireland, where her birth
occurred. The father died in 1874 and the mother in 1904.
Senator Worsley's gift of eloquence was early manifest. At a county fair he won a prize for oratory and the money thus secured enabled him to attend Wheaton College at Wheaton. Illinois. He later took up the study of law and was graduated from the Northern Indian Law School at Valparaiso in 1899. after which he immediately joined his brother Ambrose in the practice of his profession in Chicago. A year later he made his way
westward to Omaha and remained a member of the Nebraska bar for three years, after which he came to Tucson in 1904.
Mr. Worsley has since been a resident of Arizona and has been prominently identified with its legal history as well as in other connections. In private practice he is known as a
strong and able lawyer, well versed in the underlying principles of the profession and possessed of the force of personality necessary to make ability and knowledge effective. The
value of his work gained recognition in a large clientage which connected him with much of the important litigation heard in the courts of the state and the able conduct of which
placed him in the front ranks of successful practitioners.
It is but natural that those who are engaged in interpreting the laws should be interested in their framing and thus it is that the lawyer figures more prominently in connection with public life than perhaps any other class of individuals. Mr. Worsley has
been connected with political activity from early manhood and when but twenty-four years of age was the candidate on the labor and populist ticket for governor of Wisconsin.
He was but nineteen years of age when he made a tour through the eastern states representing the Chicago Single Tax Club and even at that date was widely known as an orator.
He assisted in the organization of the first direct legislation league in the United States in St. Louis in 1892 and has since acted as one of its national organizers. He has done extensive campaign work, traveling over Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, South Dakota and
Nebraska for such men as "Golden Rule" Jones, Pettigrew and Governor Altgeld, who in that year was elected governor of Illinois. His broad understanding of vital questions has naturally led him to write upon such subjects' and he is the author of "Corporation
Raids in the National Corn Crib," which was published in 1896, and "The First Step in the National Progress or Direct Legislation," which was sent out by the press in 1899.
When Arizona was admitted to the Union Mr. Worsley was elected to represent Pima county in the first state senate, where he became the recognized champion of labor. Since his boyhood he has been an advocate of the labor cause and his efforts in the senate largely promoted its interests. He was made chairman of the labor committee and was also made a member of the committees on code revision, finance, judiciary, public lands, rules and
style, revision and compilation. He has addressed the assembly upon taxation, upon state development of internal resources and state promotion of industrial enterprises, and he has
also given the benefit of his clear, incisive and telling words in behalf of all the amendments. Not only is Mr. Worsley the most noted orator in Arizona but he is also one of the
greatest statesmen, using his unusual talents worthily for the public good.
On August 26, 1904, Mr. Worsley was united in marriage to Miss Alice J. Major, a native of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and they have become parents of four children: Henry
George, Paul Robert, Dorcas Maria and Arvon Albinus. Mrs. Worsley is a lady of most liberal education and prior to her marriage was for several years one of the leading teachers in the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, which is the largest institution of the kind in the country.
Mr. Worsley has important business interests in Pima county, where he owns two large copper mines. Fraternally he is connected with the Loyal Order of Moose. He is a
broad-minded man who places the correct valuation upon life, its opportunities and its
privileges, and he has wrought along lines of the greatest good to the greatest number, his activities proving of benefit to the community at large. He stands today among the most
honored and eminent residents of Pima county.
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