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Candidate Background
Candidacy
Undergraduate education: Harvard University
Graduate education: Arizona State University
Terry Goddard was born in Tucson, Ariz., and currently resides in Phoenix. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a law degree from Arizona State University.
He is the son of former Gov. Sam Goddard.
Terry Goddard was Phoenix mayor from 1983 to 1990, serving four terms and championing historic preservation and downtown redevelopment.
Goddard served as an officer in the Navy and Naval Reserve, retiring as a commander.
His legal career has included working as an assistant attorney general and as a private lawyer with Phoenix law firms.
He was elected attorney general in 2002 and re-elected in 2006.
Goddard and his wife, Monica, have a son.
Profile
Terry Goddard is running for governor for the third time, challenging incumbent Republican Jan Brewer and starting the general election campaign as an underdog. Brewer saw her popularity surge in her own party after she signed the state's 2010 controversial law on immigration enforcement.
Goddard has called the law misguided and said the state would get more dividends in reducing border-related crime by targeting smuggling cartels. Goddard fought as a two-term attorney general to stem the flow of money to smugglers, obtaining a $94 million settlement from Western Union.
He is trying to focus voters on the state's economic and budget troubles. The state faces a budget deficit for the third year in a row and the prospect of more spending cuts to education and other services. While Goddard says Brewer hasn't done enough on either front, she says she's protected vital state services after confronted by a mess left by her predecessor, Democrat Janet Napolitano. Both candidates are touting economic development ideas for diversifying the state's economy.
Campaigns
Terry Goddard was unopposed in the August 2010 Democratic primary for governor. He faces Brewer in the November 2010 election.
Goddard was elected mayor of Phoenix four times in the 1980s but then lost twice in runs for governor in the 1990s. He lost a 1991 runoff to Republican Fife Symington and the Democratic primary in 1994 to supermarket magnate Eddie Basha.
He served as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's state director in the 1990s as a Clinton administration appointee.
He was elected state attorney general in 2002 and re-elected in 2006.
(Last updated by Paul Davenport on October 4, 2010.)
