Stephen Caroyl Shadegg was a conservative political consultant, public relations specialist, and writer from his adopted city of Phoenix, Arizona.
12 Facts About Stephen Shadegg
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Stephen Shadegg worked extensively as a writer and published hundreds of stories in pulp magazines before his interest turned to politics.
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Over several decades Shadegg managed more than forty campaigns in Arizona for offices at all levels of government.
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In 1962, at Goldwater's urging, Stephen Shadegg ran in the Republican primary for the right to challenge Senator Carl Hayden for re-election, but he lost the primary to Evan Mecham, later a short-term governor of Arizona.
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In 1964, Stephen Shadegg served as western regional director of Goldwater's unsuccessful presidential campaign.
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Stephen Shadegg managed Goldwater's unsuccessful primary race in Oregon against Nelson Rockefeller, the governor of New York.
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Stephen Shadegg ran several more campaigns for Republicans, both in Arizona and in several other states.
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Stephen Shadegg said that the "more romantic story" some wanted about the Republican icon would not have been accurate.
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Stephen Shadegg collaborated with Goldwater on the latter's political memoir With No Apologies, which appeared in 1979.
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Stephen Shadegg's papers are held at the Arizona Historical Foundation in Tempe.
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Stephen Shadegg died of cancer at his Phoenix home at the age of eighty on April 16,1990.
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Younger son John Stephen Shadegg managed Arizona political campaigns as had his father, served as a US representative from Arizona from 1995 to 2011, and then joined the staff of the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix.