Wade Church (May 4, 1908 – December 4, 2002) was an American politician who served as the Attorney General of Arizona from 1959 to 1961.
[1] Church graduated Valedictorian from UCLA in 1933 and from Harvard Law School in 1938.
[4][5] On May 7, 1959, Mr. Church delivered a speech in Flagstaff, Arizona to the delegates of an AFL-CIO convention.
Church sued the newspaper, won, and in 1968 the jury's award was upheld by the Arizona Supreme Court.
[7] In 1976, Church finally received almost $650,000 in libel damages.