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Who Was Barry Goldwater?

Barry Goldwater ran his family’s department store before embarking on a political career.

He served in the senate for 30 years, gaining recognition for his fiscal conservatism. Goldwater lost the campaign for the presidency to Lyndon B. Johnson in unprecedented landslide. He died in Paradise Valley, Arizona, on May 29,

Early Life

Barry Morris Goldwater was born on January 2, , in Phoenix, Arizona Territory, three years prior to Arizona statehood.

His father, Baron Goldwater, had opened a department store called M. Goldwater & Sons in Barry worked at his father's store as a young man.

He dropped out of college in to work fulltime after his father's death. Goldwater developed and sold popular items including "antsy pantsy," white shorts covered in printed red ants. He also took up aviation as a hobby during this period.

As the United States entered World War II, Goldwater made an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a comb