Stewart Udall

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Stewart Lee Udall (January 31, 1920-2010) was an American politician and later, a federal government official.

He served as Secretary of the Interior from 1961 to 1969, under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Personal life

Stewart Udall was married to Ermalee Webb (died 2001), with whom he had two children (Lori and Lynn) and four sons (Denis, Jay, Scott, and Tom). He was the brother of Mo Udall, a former senator and 1976 presidential nominee; he served as Mo's campaign manager during the Democratic primary election, which Mo lost to Jimmy Carter. In 2008, Stewart Udall's son Tom Udall and his nephew Mark Udall (Mo's uncle), both former members of the United States Senate, were elected to the United States Senate from New Mexico and Colorado. Mark lost his seat in 2014 and Tom Walker resigned at the end of his second term in 2021.

In his capacity as a former Interior Minister and oversaw the National Park Service, Udall was interviewed for two Ken Burns documentaries for PBS: The West, which includes ancestor John D. Lee's participation in the Mountain Meadows massacre of 1857 and America's Best Idea.

Udall was Kennedy's last surviving original member of Kennedy's cabinet. W. Willard Wirtz was the last surviving member of John F. Kennedy's cabinet after Udall's death. Wirtz died on April 24, 2010.

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Early life and career

Stewart Udall was born in Saint Johns, Arizona, on January 31, 1920, to Louisa Lee Udall (1893–1974) and Levi Stewart Udall (1891–1960). Inez, Elma, Morris, Eloise, and David Burr were among his five siblings. Stewart was a youth on the family farm in St. Johns. He was recalled by his mother as a child with a soaring spirit and an unquenchable curiosity.

Before World War II, Udall attended the University of Arizona for two years. He spent four years in the Air Force as an enlisted gunner on a B-24 Liberator, flying fifty missions across Western Europe from Italy with the 736th Bomb Squadron, 454th Bomb Group, for which he was given the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. In 1946, he returned to the University of Arizona, where he attended law school and served as guard on a championship basketball team. Udall and his brother Moody helped with the establishment of the University of Arizona cafeteria in 1947. Mo and Stewart were well-known student athletes, and Mo was the president of the student body. On their way to lunch at the Student Union one day, they discovered a group of black students eating lunch outside the building. Black students were allowed to buy food in the cafeteria but had to eat outside. Morgan Maxwell Jr., a black freshman, was allowed to share their table in the cafeteria by Mo and Stewart, who helped to calm some long-simmering racial questions surrounding segregation at the university.

In 1948, Udall obtained his law degree and was admitted to the Arizona bar. He began practicing law in Tucson right away. After being elected to the School Board of Amphitheater Public Schools (District 10) in Tucson in June 1951, Udall became more active in public service. He was instrumental in desegregating the Amphitheater School District before the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Board of Education. In 1954, Udall was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Arizona's Second District. He served with distinction in the House for three terms on the Interior and Education and Labor committees.

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