George W. P. Hunt

Beneath the white pyramid on the Papago Park hill lies George W. P. Hunt, Arizona's first governor and its most stubborn. He presided over the 1910 convention that wrote the state constitution, then won the governorship seven times, a national record he set across nonconsecutive terms. A populist who championed labor, prison reform, and the common man, and a rotund figure impossible to miss, Hunt asked to be entombed where he could overlook the valley. His wife Duette and her family lie with him. The pyramid tomb remains one of the odder landmarks on the Phoenix skyline.

What the plaque says

Entombment of George W. P. Hunt, born 1859, died 1934. A colorful Arizona pioneer and statesman, member of various territorial legislatures, and president of the Arizona Constitutional Convention of 1910. He was elected Arizona's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 10th governor, a national record. Also entombed in the white pyramid here are his wife Duette, her parents the J. W. Ellisons, and her sister Lena Ellison.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Phoenix — 7.5 mi
  The fifth-largest US city, built on the canals of a thousand-year-old one
• Heard Museum — 7.5 mi
  The Native Southwest, told in the first person
• Taliesin West — 12 mi
  Frank Lloyd Wright's desert masterwork, grown from the ground it stands on

More markers nearby

• Sallie D. Hayden — 1.6 mi
• Site of Hayden's Ferry — 1.6 mi
• Hayden House — 1.6 mi
• Papago Escape Tunnel — 1.6 mi