The once-conservative cartoonist became a liberal atheist after watching The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...

For decades, Steve Benson poked fun at the state’s political figures — first in the pages of the Arizona Republic, and more ...

Political cartoonist Steve Benson believed I was wrong about everything. But we had one thing in common that mattered more ...

Evan Mecham served 15 months as governor before being impeached and convicted, but the fallout from his time in office reverberated in the state’s politics for decades.

As a scion of LDS hierarchy, Steve’s life and career would become entwined in Arizona politics and cultural Mormonism as it merged in a single, historic figure named Evan Mecham.

Goldwater was no doubt referring to Ezra Taft Benson, Steve’s grandfather and a powerful figure as Dwight Eisenhower’s ...

Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham is impeached and ousted by the Senate. He had been indicted by a state grand jury on allegations that he had failed to report a loan from a developer, but he would later ...

When Gov. Evan Mecham took office in January 1987, one of his first actions was to rescind Babbitt's MLK Day order, which he said hadn't been legally enacted. He urged lawmakers to refer the issue ...

PHOENIX — Evan Mecham, the only Arizona governor to be impeached, tried and ejected from office, died late Thursday at the Arizona State Veteran Home after a lengthy illness.

Steve Benson, the former Arizona Republic cartoonist who skewered a generation of politicians, died at 71.