- 44th Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona (1948-1952)
John Nicholas Udall was born 23 July 1913 in St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona to John Hunt Udall (1889-1959) and Ruth Woolley Kimball (1892-1915) and died 15 June 2005 Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona of unspecified causes. He married Sybil Elizabeth Webb (1914-1998) 5 June 1937 in Washington, D.C.. He married Joan Estelle LeDosquet (1925-2013) 12 February 2000 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona.
Biography
John Nicholas Udall usually called Nick Udall (July 23, 1913 – June 15, 2005) was mayor of Phoenix, Arizona from 1948–52. He was a member of the Udall political family and was also a nephew of Spencer Woolley Kimball (1895-1985), the 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Udall was born and raised in Arizona. His parents John Hunt Udall and Ruth Kimball were in the same English literature class at the St. Joseph Stake Academy (now Eastern Arizona College), and when learning about playwright Nicholas Udall, they joked that if they ever got married, that they would name their son Nick, which they did.
Udall attended Brigham Young University and the University of Arizona before enrolling in The George Washington University Law School, graduating in 1943. After graduation, he returned home to Arizona, where he began his law practice.
He followed in his father's footsteps, and served as mayor of Phoenix from 1948 to 1952. He served with then-City Councilman Barry Goldwater. From 1952 to 1956 he served as judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court. Nick left the bench to return to private legal practice at Jennings, Strouss, Salmon & Trask in Phoenix, where he practiced law until retiring in 1992.
A lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nick served in various church positions, including service as a full-time missionary in the Eastern Central States mission from 1934 to 1936, as Bishop of the Phoenix Third Ward from 1970 to 1975 ("the most satisfying calling that a worthy priesthood holder can have" because "he is continually helping people"), and as Patriarch of the Phoenix Arizona Stake from 1975 to 1991.
Nick and his wife, Sybil Elizabeth Webb, are the parents of seven children. They are buried alongside each other in Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery in Phoenix, Arizona. Following Sybil's death in 1998, Nick married Joan Romney in 2001.
His autobiography, "The Wonder of It All," was published by FCP Publishing in 2006.
Marriage & Family
1st Marriage: Sibel Webb
2nd Marriage: Joan LeDesquot
Siblings
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
John Nicholas Udall (1913-2005) | 23 July 1913 St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona | 15 June 2005 Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona | Sybil Elizabeth Webb (1914-1998) Joan Estelle LeDosquet (1925-2013) |
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
King Smith Udall (1917-1944) | |||
Elias Earl Udall (1919-1970) | |||
Ruth Udall (1920-1976) | |||
Reed Smoot Udall (1922-1983) | |||
Leah Jo Udall (1927-2006) | |||
Edith Udall (1931-1998) |
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