Fife Symington (b.1945)

He is a great-grandson of Henry Clay Frick and was educated at the Gilman School in Baltimore before graduating from Harvard (Dutch Art History, 1968). After being stationed in Arizona with the U.S. Air Force, he went into real estate there. In 1991, as a Republican, he was elected as the 19th Governor of Arizona on the populist promise that he would run the state like a business. The state flourished, but his own personal affairs fell apart. Thirteen real estate deals in which he was involved fell through, one of which was funded by six union state pensions. The pension funds sued in 1995, and in response he declared personal bankruptcy. A subsequent investigation by the courts found references to false bank statements and erratic declarations of wealth that depended on whether he was trying to get a loan, or trying to avoid having to pay one back. He was forced to resign as Governor in 1997, two days after being convicted on seven out of 21 federal counts for extortion, fraud and perjury - the first governor of Arizona to be convicted of a crime, and the second within a decade to resign over a scandal.

In 1998, he was sentenced to 2.5-years in prison for defrauding banks and pensions, and in addition he was ordered to pay $60,000 in fines, provide restitution for the pensions funds, and serve 5-years probation after jail. His lawyer appealed, and the decision was overturned on the grounds that there was a "possibility" that an elderly juror had been removed from the jury for insisting on his innocence and being unable to agree with his/her peers. He never served a day in prison, which many believed was due to his wealth that allowed him access to superior lawyers. His lack of remorse during the trial also led to the belief that he seemed to consider himself above the law, and his public reputation never recovered. Before the government could retry him, he was pardoned in 2001 by President Bill Clinton, whom he saved from a rip tide off during the coast of Hyannis Port, near the Kennedy Compound. Symington has been married three times and has 3-children.