Edith Alice Macia, the Glossary
Edith Alice Macia (née Robertson; September 17, 1884 – July 17, 1974) was a pioneer of Arizona that served as postmaster of Tombstone, Arizona and received numerous awards for her work as an undercover FBI agent.[1]
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61 relations: Air Mail Act of 1925, Airmail, American Legion, Anaheim, California, Arizona, Arizona Territory, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Bisbee, Arizona, Buffalo Bill, Calvin Coolidge, Cananea, Cochise County, Arizona, Communist Party USA, Doolittle Raid, Douglas, Arizona, Dragoon Mountains, Earle Ovington, Federal Bureau of Investigation, France, Frank Harris Hitchcock, Freedoms Foundation, Halley's Comet, Helldorado Days (Tombstone), Henry Ellis Harris, Hi Corbett Field, Hollywood, Los Angeles, House Un-American Activities Committee, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, James B. Utt, Leadville, Colorado, Lions Clubs International, Los Angeles, Mexican Revolution, Mining, Myocardial infarction, New Mexico, Orange County, California, Pearce, Arizona, Philatelic cover, Philately, Placentia, California, Plymouth Colony, Postmaster, Prescott, Arizona, Republican National Committee, Republican Party (United States), Richard Nixon, San Francisco, Sharlot Hall Museum, ... Expand index (11 more) »
- Arizona postmasters
- People from Arizona
- Undercover police agents
Air Mail Act of 1925
The Air Mail Act of 1925, also known as the Kelly Act, was a key piece of legislation that intended to free the airmail from total control by the Post Office Department.
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Airmail
Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air.
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American Legion
The American Legion, commonly known as the Legion, is an organization of U.S. war veterans headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Anaheim, California
Anaheim is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States, part of the Greater Los Angeles area.
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Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
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Arizona Territory
The Territory of Arizona, commonly known as the Arizona Territory, was a territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863, until February 14, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Arizona.
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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE; also often known as the Elks Lodge or simply The Elks) is an American fraternal order founded in 1868, originally as a social club in New York City.
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Bisbee, Arizona
Bisbee is a city in and the county seat of Cochise County in southeastern Arizona, United States.
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Buffalo Bill
William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846January 10, 1917), known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman.
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Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.;; July 4, 1872January 5, 1933) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929.
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Cananea
Cananea is a city in the Mexican state of Sonora, Northwestern Mexico.
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Cochise County, Arizona
Cochise County is a county in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona.
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Communist Party USA
The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.
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Doolittle Raid
The Doolittle Raid, also known as Doolittle's Raid, as well as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II.
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Douglas, Arizona
Douglas is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States that lies in the north-west to south-east running Sulphur Springs Valley.
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Dragoon Mountains
The Dragoon Mountains is a range of mountains located in Cochise County, Arizona.
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Earle Ovington
Earle Lewis Ovington (December 20, 1879 – July 21, 1936) was an American aeronautical engineer, aviator and inventor, and served as a lab assistant to Thomas Edison.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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Frank Harris Hitchcock
Frank Harris Hitchcock (October 5, 1867 – August 5, 1935), was chairman of Republican National Committee from 1908 to 1909. Edith Alice Macia and Frank Harris Hitchcock are Arizona Republicans.
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Freedoms Foundation
The Freedoms Foundation is an American non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian educational organization, founded in 1949.
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Halley's Comet
Halley's Comet is the only known short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, appearing every 72–80 years.
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Helldorado Days (Tombstone)
Helldorado Days is a festival that began in Tombstone, Arizona in 1929 and is held every year in October.
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Henry Ellis Harris
Henry Ellis Harris (January 21, 1902 – December 29, 1977), commonly known as H.E. Harris, was an American philatelist and stamp dealer who through his company, H.E. Harris & Co., popularized philately for many Americans, especially children.
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Hi Corbett Field
Hi Corbett Field is a baseball park in the southwestern United States, located in Tucson, Arizona.
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Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.
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House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (– 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer and statesman who was a spokesman for Polish independence.
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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.
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James B. Utt
James Boyd Utt (March 11, 1899 – March 1, 1970) was an American politician.
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Leadville, Colorado
Leadville is a statutory city that is the county seat, the most populous community, and the only incorporated municipality in Lake County, Colorado, United States.
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Lions Clubs International
Lions Clubs International, is an international service organization, currently headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, U.S., it had over 46,000 local clubs and more than 1.4 million members (including the youth wing Leo) in more than 200 countries and geographic areas around the world.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution (Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920.
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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.
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Myocardial infarction
A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle.
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New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
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Orange County, California
Orange County (officially the County of Orange; often known by its initials O.C.) is a county located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California, United States.
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Pearce, Arizona
Pearce, Arizona, and Sunsites, Arizona, are adjacent unincorporated communities in the Sulphur Springs Valley of Cochise County, Arizona, United States.
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Philatelic cover
A philatelic cover is an envelope prepared with a stamp(s) and address and sent through the mail delivery system for the purpose of creating a collectible item.
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Philately
Philately is the study of postage stamps and postal history.
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Placentia, California
Placentia is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States.
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Plymouth Colony
Plymouth Colony (sometimes Plimouth) was the first permanent English colony in New England from 1620 and the third permanent English colony in America, after Newfoundland and the Jamestown Colony.
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Postmaster
A postmaster is the head of an individual post office, responsible for all postal activities in a specific post office.
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Prescott, Arizona
Prescott is a city in and the county seat of Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
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Republican National Committee
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is the primary committee of the Republican Party of the United States.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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Sharlot Hall Museum
The Sharlot Hall Museum is an open-air museum and heritage site located in Prescott, Arizona.
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St. Joseph, Missouri
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Tombstone, Arizona
Tombstone is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1879 by prospector Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory.
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United States Forest Service
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering of land.
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United States Postmaster General
The United States postmaster general (PMG) is the chief executive officer of the United States Postal Service (USPS).
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University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona.
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Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
The Village of Valley Forge is an unincorporated settlement.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), formally the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, is an organization of U.S. war veterans who fought in wars, campaigns, and expeditions on foreign land, waters, or airspace as military service members.
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West Adams, Los Angeles
West Adams is a neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California.
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Willcox, Arizona
Willcox is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.
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William H. Robinson
William Hugh Robinson is an American engineer who is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Vice Provost for Academic at Vanderbilt University.
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Yavapai County, Arizona
Yavapai County is a county near the center of the U.S. state of Arizona.
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See also
Arizona postmasters
- C. B. Wood
- Edith Alice Macia
- George W. Cheyney
- Henry Wickenburg
People from Arizona
- Amy Lau
- Beau Bartlett
- C. Allan Stewart
- Charles C. Cratsenberg
- Charles L. Towle
- Clara M. Schell
- Clara Osborne Botzum
- Diana Arterian
- Don Janicki
- Edith Alice Macia
- Elsatsoosu
- Ethnic groups in Arizona
- Glenn Reynolds (sheriff)
- Hugh Dane
- Indigenous peoples of Arizona
- Jackson Robert Scott
- Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench
- Jason P. Lester
- Jim Arroyo
- Joe Mayer
- Kosoha
- Laura Ortman
- Linda Miller (engineer)
- Louisa Wade Wetherill
- Machol
- Maricopa Slim
- Mary Ann Hawkins
- Nantaje
- Native Americans in Arizona
- Orville Tsinnie
- Paul Petersen (criminal)
- Paul Ulibarri
- Reggie Lanning
- Robert F. Schoultz
- Ron Watkins
- Sherri Gallagher
- Stacey Gordon
- Thane Read
- Thomas Rex Lee
- Tom Kawcyznski
- Udall family
- Valer Austin
- W. L. Cook
- William Boyce Thompson
Undercover police agents
- Alex Gordon (police agent)
- Aryan Nations Motorcycle Riders Division
- Bob Lambert (undercover police officer)
- Edith Alice Macia
- Kim Hollingsworth
- Mark Kennedy (police officer)
- Paul Manning (police officer, born 1973)
- Ron Stallworth
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Alice_Macia
Also known as Edith Alice Barr, Edith Alice Robertson, Edith Robertson Barr Macia, Edith Robertson Macia.
, St. Joseph, Missouri, Tombstone, Arizona, United States Forest Service, United States Postmaster General, University of Arizona, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Veterans of Foreign Wars, West Adams, Los Angeles, Willcox, Arizona, William H. Robinson, Yavapai County, Arizona.