Allan K. Perry | |
State Senate1: | Arizona |
District1: | Maricopa County |
Term Start1: | January 1929 |
Term End1: | December 1930 |
Predecessor1: | Dan P. Jones Harlow Akers |
Successor1: | Joe C. Haldiman Frank T. Pomeroy |
Birth Date: | 1898 |
Birth Place: | Wisconsin |
Death Place: | Phoenix, Arizona |
Nationality: | American |
Party: | Democrat |
Alma Mater: | University of Arizona |
Profession: | Politician |
Allan K. Perry was an American politician from Arizona. He served a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 9th Arizona State Legislature, holding one of the two seats from Maricopa County.[1] Perry was born in 1898 in Wisconsin, and moved to Arizona in 1917. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a law degree and went to work with his partner, Charles Wolfe, in the firm of Wolfe and Perry in Tempe, Arizona. He moved to Phoenix and became a law partner in the firm of Kramner-Rocher-Perry in 1932.[2] [3] [4] Perry married Capitola Roach on July 25, 1922, in Phoenix, Arizona.[5] The couple had three children, Wallace, Allan R., and Yvonne.[6] In 1951 he wrote the novel, Winners Get Lost, which was well received by critics, both when it was initially released, and again upon its re-release in 1964. His daughter, Yvonne, edited the manuscript for her father.[7] He served as Arizona's assistant attorney general under both John Sullivan and Joe Conway. He died on November 13, 1976, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix.