George W.P. Hunt, Arizona's first Governor, arrived in Globe as a poor prospector and began with a job sweeping out a saloon, then went on to serve four terms as Governor beginning at statehood in 1912; he campaigned on the back of a burro and gave away jars of his wife's homemade jams. Rose Mofford also grew up in Globe and graduated from Globe High School; though an excellent athlete and scholar, she faced barriers when her father refused to send her to college and asked her not to play professional sports, yet she overcame these obstacles to become Arizona's first woman Governor. Both Hunt and Mofford were champions of education who worked for free textbooks and other improvements.