Adam Perez Diaz
Adam Perez Diaz (September 2, 1909 – March 5, 2010) was the first Hispanic elected to the Phoenix City Council and also the first Hispanic to serve as Phoenix's Vice-Mayor. Diaz was appointed to the National Council on Aging by President Bill Clinton. Díaz was among the first seven recipients of the Profiles of Success Hispanic Leadership Award's in the Hall of Fame category. Early years Diaz was born to José Perez (1866–1927) and Soledad Díaz Palacios (1875–1962) in Flagstaff, Arizona. He was the second of five siblings born to Jose and Soledad. His parents fled from Mexico in 1908 because they feared that Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz would condemn them for their support of an armed insurrection against him. He was the first out of his five siblings to be born in the United States; his sister Aurora was born in Mexico in 1906. Move to Phoenix In 1910, the family moved to Phoenix, where his father José was hired as an Arizona Eastern Railway's roundhouse operator. ...
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Flagstaff, Arizona
Flagstaff ( ) is a city in, and the county seat of, Coconino County in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In 2019, the city's estimated population was 75,038. Flagstaff's combined metropolitan area has an estimated population of 139,097. Flagstaff lies near the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau and within the San Francisco volcanic field, along the western side of the largest contiguous ponderosa pine forest in the continental United States. The city sits at about and is next to Mount Elden, just south of the San Francisco Peaks, the highest mountain range in the state of Arizona. Humphreys Peak, the highest point in Arizona at , is about north of Flagstaff in Kachina Peaks WildernessThe geology of the Flagstaff areaincludes abundant volcanic rocks associated with the San Francisco Volcanic Field that range in age from late Miocene to late Holocene. It also includes exposed rock from the Mesozoic and Paleozoic eras, with Moenkopi Formation red s ...
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