Barry Goldwater

Barry Morris Goldwater January 2 1909 May 29 1998 was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987 and was the Republican Partys nominee for president in 1964 Goldwater was born in Phoenix Arizona where he helped manage his familys department store During World War II he flew aircraft between the US and India After the war Goldwater served in the Phoenix City Council In 1952 he was elected to the US Senate where he rejected the legacy of the New Deal and along with the conservative coalition fought against the New Deal coalition Goldwater also challenged his partys moderate to liberal wing on policy issues He supported the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 and the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution but opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 disagreeing with Title II and Title VII In the 1964 US presidential election Goldwater mobilized a large conservative constituency to win the Republican nomination but then lost the general election to incumbent Democratic president Lyndon B Johnson in a landslide