Andrew Jackson Bettwy

Infobox Person
name=Andrew Jackson Bettwy


caption=Andrew Jackson Bettwy
image_size=300px
order=18th
title=Mayor of Nogales, Arizona
term_start=1935
term_end=1937
dead=dead
birth_date= 1894
birth_place= Altoona, Pennsylvania
death_date= 1950
death_place= Little Rock, Arkansas

Andrew Jackson Bettwy, an Arizona Democrat, served as [http://www.nogalesaz.net/Graphics/jpg/Mayors/index.htm Mayor] of Nogales, Arizona, from 1935 to 1937. Bettwy was in the first class of the University of Arizona law school (the James E. Rogers College of Law) when it opened in 1915, though he did not finish his studies there.

Bettwy was the son of André Bettwy (1867-1951) and Mary Billand (1863-1939), natives of Alsace who immigrated to the United States and settled in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Bettwy had two sons, Andrew Leo Bettwy (1920-2004), Arizona State Land Commissioner (1970-1978) and [http://www.ralphrobinsonandson.com/obit.php?deceased=1367 William Frederick Bettwy] (1918-2005) of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the first commercial pilot to land at Washington Dulles Airport.

Bettwy married Mary Chenoweth, a dual citizen of Mexico and the United States, who was County Recorder of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, for 34 years.

Bettwy is most remembered in Arizona folklore for flattening William Mathews, the publisher of the "Arizona Daily Star", during Mathews' anti-Roosevelt New Deal speech at the 1936 Arizona State Democratic Convention in Tucson, Arizona.Star's longtime chief was feisty, arrogant, powerful, "Arizona Daily Star", Feb. 24, 1991 ("Delivering an anti-New Deal speech to the delegates gathered for the Arizona Democratic Convention in Tucson in 1936, Mathews persevered through a chorus of hissing and booing. Finally, Andrew Bettwy, former mayor of Nogales, could stand it no longer. He leaped to the stage and knocked Mathews to the ground. Unfazed, the Star's editor-in-chief arose, then finished his address")]

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